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| Established | 1903 |
| Location | 1717 N. Harwood, Dallas, TX Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Dallas, Texas, USA |
| Website | Dallas Museum of Art |
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is a major regional art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood.
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History
The Dallas Museum of Art's history began with the establishment in 1903 of the Dallas Art Association, which initially exhibited paintings in the Dallas Public Library. In 1909, the association's collection received a permanent home in the Free Public Art Gallery of Dallas, located in Fair Park. The museum, renamed the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, relocated to a new art deco facility within Fair Park from 1936 to 1984.[1] In 1963 the museum merged with the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art.[2] In 1979 Dallas voters pledged $24.8 million toward the construction of a new museum building in the Art District downtown.[3] The current facility, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, opened in 1984 and the museum took on its current name. The museum was expanded in 1984, 1989 and 1993, to its current size of 350,000-square-feet (110,000 square feet of exhibition space) located on 8.9 acres.[4]
Collections
The Museum's collections include more than 23,000 works of art from around the world ranging from ancient to modern times. They are housed in the $20 million Hamon Building collection and include the $38 million Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, along with vast African, Contemporary and decorative art pieces.[5]
African art
The African collection focuses on sub-Saharan art from two collections: the Clark and Frances Stillman Collection of Congo Sculpture and the collection of Gustave and Franyo Schindler.
American painting and sculpture
The American art collection includes paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the United States, Mexico, and Canada from the colonial period to World War II.
Ancient American art
Works in the ancient American collection come from twelve countries and span 3,000 years. Included in the collection are ceramics from the southwestern United States; gold from Panama, Colombia, and Peru; ceramics and stone sculpture from Mexico and Guatemala and textiles and ceramics from Peru.
Ancient Mediterranean art
The ancient Mediterranean collection includes artefacts from 3000 B.C. to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Asian art
The Asian collections showcase works from Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. The works range from Gandharan Buddhist art of the 2nd to 4th centuries to the arts of the Mughal Empire in India from the 15th to the 19th century.
Contemporary art
The contemporary collection contains artwork from 1945 to the present. The Museum has a strong focus on major German artists such as Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, and Anselm Kiefer.
In June 2008, the Museum acquired four paintings by Polke entitled, “The Dream of Menelaus,” which are examples of abstraction and representation. Until now, the paintings were part of Polke's own personal collection of which he was unwilling to sell. With the new editions, the Museum hopes to become a center for those studying Mr. Polke’s art. [6]
Decorative arts and design
The decorative arts collection contains over 6,000 objects in a wide range of media. The collection of 19th- and 20th-century American silver is widely considered among the finest in the world.[7]
European painting and sculpture
The collection of European art spans several centuries with a focus on 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries pieces.
Pacific islands art
Sculpture and textiles include works from the Mentawai Islands, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Sumba, Flores, and the Southeast Moluccas.
The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection
In 1985 the Dallas Museum of Art received a one-of-a-kind gift from Wendy Reves in honor of her late husband, Emery Reves.
The Reves collection is housed in an elaborate 15,000 square foot reproduction of the Reveses' home in France, Villa La Pausa, where the works originally were displayed. Among the 1,400 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper are works from leading impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modernist artists, including Cézanne, Daumier, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and van Gogh. Another part of the Reves wing is devoted to decorative arts and includes Chinese export porcelain; European furniture; Oriental and European carpets; iron, bronze, and silver work; antique European glass; and rare books. Memorabilia of the Reveses' friendship with English statesman Winston Churchill is housed in the wing as well.
Community events
In 2008 the Dallas Museum of Art premiered the Center for Creative Connections (also known as C3), a 12,000 square foot facility for interactive learning experiences. It include exhibitions featuring the Museum’s permanent collection and artists’ and community partners’ responses to them. Spaces include the Art Studio, Tech Lab, Theater, and Arturo’s Nest.[8]
The Dallas Museum of Art also hosts numerous community outreach programs throughout the year.
- Late Nights: once a month the museum is open until midnight with performances, concerts, readings, film screenings, tours and family programs.
- Arts & Letters Live: a lecture series featuring acclaimed authors, actors and illustrators.
- Jazz Under the Stars: a popular free outdoor jazz concert series on the Museum's lawn
- Thursday Night Live: every Thursday there are live jazz concerts, dinner and drinks in the Atrium Cafe and experiences in the Center for Creative Connections
See also
References
- ^ http://www.museumsusa.org/museums/info/1167455
- ^ http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/DD/kld1.html
- ^ http://dallasmuseumofart.org/AboutUs/MuseumHistory/index.htm
- ^ http://www.museumsusa.org/museums/info/1167455
- ^ http://dallasmuseumofart.org:8080/emuseum/objects/viewcollections/Objects
- ^ Vogel, Carol (2008-06-27). ""Win One, Lose One for Dallas Museum"". http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/arts/design/27voge.html?ref=design. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ http://dallasmuseumofart.org:8080/emuseum/objects/viewcollections/Objects
- ^ http://www.dm-art.org/Events/CenterforCreativeConnections/About/index.htm
External links
Coordinates: 32°47′14″N 96°48′03″W / 32.78722°N 96.80083°W
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