page_title: Speed Art Museum
section_title: Highlights of the Speed's collection
hierarchical_section_title: Speed Art Museum / Highlights of the Speed's collection
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of a Forty-Year-Old Woman, possibly Marretje Cornelisdr. van Grotewal
context_page_description: The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, now colloquially referred to as the Speed by locals, is the oldest, largest, and foremost museum of art in Kentucky. It is located in Louisville, Kentucky on Third Street next to the University of Louisville Belknap campus and receives around 180,000 visits annually.
  The museum offers visitors a variety of "art experiences" outside its collection and international exhibitions, including the Speed Concert Series, the Art Sparks Interactive Family Gallery, and the popular late-night event, After Hours at the Speed.
  The Speed houses ancient, classical, and modern art from around the world. The focus of the collection is Western art, from antiquity to the present day. Holdings of paintings from the Netherlands, French and Italian works, and contemporary art are particularly strong, with sculpture prominent throughout.
context_section_description: The Speed houses a collection of African art, ancient art, Native American art, American art, European art, and contemporary art.
  Highlights of the collection include works by:
  European painting and sculpture
  Giambattista Pittoni
  Rembrandt
  Peter Paul Rubens
  Claude Monet
  James Tissot
  Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael
  Gustave Courbet
  Auguste Rodin
  Thomas Gainsborough
  Modernism
  Constantin Brâncuși
  Marc Chagall
  Pablo Picasso
  Jean Arp
  Jean Dubuffet
  Paul Cézanne
  Henri Matisse
  Paul Klee
  American painting and sculpture
  Benjamin West
  James Peale
  Elihu Vedder
  John Singer Sargent
  Mary Cassatt
  Edward Redfield
  Childe Hassam
  Hiram Powers
  Franklin Simmons
  Randolph Rogers
  Thomas Ball
  Augustus Saint-Gaudens
  George Grey Barnard
  Paul Manship
  George Randolph Barse
  Paul Sawyier
  Contemporary art
  James Brooks
  John Chamberlain
  Nicole Chesney
  Chuck Close
  Sam Gilliam
  Sol LeWitt
  Alice Neel
  Yinka Shonibare
  Frank Stella
  Richard Tuttle
caption: Rembrandt van Rijn Portrait of a Forty-Year-Old Woman, possibly Marretje Cornelisdr. van Grotewal, 1634
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