TREASURES TO GO AMERICAN ART AT ITS BEST.(Florida art exhibitions)(Brief Article)

"Listen! There never was an artistic period. There never was an Art-loving nation."

JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER 1834 - 1903

Perhaps as the country faced a new century in the late 1800s, American painter and printmaker James McNeill Whistler had it right. But a hundred years later, Whistler's assessment of the state of the arts in America may be wrong on both counts. With its ambitious "Treasures to Go" tout, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art is putting the best of many periods of American art on the road in an effort that is certain to win the lov