Throughout his career Mark Twain expressed his strong reactions to Western painting and sculpture, particularly the Old Masters, both in his published works and in private. His opinions are often passionate, sometimes eccentric, and always lively. Occasionally he took a more "hands on" approach to art and included his own sketches in his literary works and in private letters. This exhibit presents some samples of his abilities in the areas of art criticism and art practice, drawing from the incomparable Mark Twain Papers archive of The Bancroft Library and the publications of the Mark Twain Project.