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The earliest known European objects to arrive at Dartmouth were a few coins and curiosities obtained by President John Wheelock during his 1783 tour of England, France, Holland, and Scotland. The collection grew gradually throughout the nineteenth century, but the introduction of European art history courses in 1905 led to a significant expansion of the Colleges holdings. A dramatic increase in gifts and acquisitions occurred after the 1985 opening of the Hood Museum of Art, which now has over 7,500 European works of art dating from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.European Art at Dartmouth is the second in a series of catalogues from the Hood that will highlight different areas of the museums collection, following the publication last year of American Art at Dartmouth. Future volumes will feature contemporary art and Native American art. European Art is the first book to present the quality and variety of these works in the museum, of which only a small portion is exhibited regularly th
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