The John A. Hermann Memorial Art Museum has been located at 318 Lincoln Avenue since 1976. The museum showcases an enormously diverse collection and continues to house the entire life work of this native Bellevue artist. There is a wide series of Pittsburgh paintings that evoke warm memories of past events and neighborhoods that are an integral part of our local history. Along with landscape images of Pennsylvania nature, Hermann captured in watercolor every single fountain and statue that once stood in Allegheny Park, now the North Side. Beyond the local images, there are a multitude of European landscapes, domestic seascapes and portraits. When he died in 1942, he generously bequeathed over 1,000 beautifully framed paintings to the Bellevue community, as well as various bronzes and ivories that he collected during a later period of world travel and exploration. His intent was for people of the Bellevue to enjoy his art as much as he enjoyed creating it.
