The New Britain Museum of American Art is an art museum in New Britain, Connecticut. Founed in 1903, it is notable as the first museum in the country dedicated to American art. The permanent collection includes colonial portraits, works from the Hudson River School, American Impressionists and the Ash Can School. The collection includes works by John Singleton Copley, Frederic Church, Thomas Cole and Georgia O'Keeffe. American impressionists represented include Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Theodore Robinson, Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, Julian Alden Weir and Willard Metcalf. The collection also includes the mural series "The Arts of Life in America" by Thomas Hart Benton.