John Langdon Sullivan

John Langdon Sullivan

Edward Greene Malbone

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The engineer John Langdon Sullivan (1777-1865) patented the steam towboat. His father was James Sullivan, governor of Massachusetts from 1807 to 1808.


The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.