Coordinates: 43°42′08″N 72°17′17″W / 43.70222°N 72.28806°W
The Hood Museum of Art is North America's oldest museum in continuous operation.[citation needed] Dating back to 1772, the museum is owned and operated by Dartmouth College and is connected to the Hopkins Center for the Arts.[1] The current building, designed by Charles Willard Moore and Chad Flloyd, opened in the fall of 1985.[2] It houses both permanent collections and visiting exhibitions. The museum includes a store and is connected to a café. Beneath the museum is the Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, which regularly has movie showings. It currently has over 65,000 objects in its possession, including a collection of Assyrian stone reliefs from Nimrud, Iraq.
The museum has paintings by Perugino and Workshop, Luca Giordano, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Rene Jollain (Belisarius Begging for Alms), Pompeo Batoni, Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, and Jan Davidszoon de Heem. Later European painters represented include Alfred Sisley (Loing Canal at Loing), Vuillard and Picasso. Americans with paintings here include Joseph Blackburn, Gignoux (New Hampshire), Rockwell Kent, John French Sloan (Roofs of Chelsea, New York City), and Georgia O'Keeffe. The nearby Baker Library has a large collection of murals by José Clemente Orozco.
References
External links
- Hood Museum of Art official website
- Listen, Look, Likeness: examining the portraits of Félix de la Concha 2009 ArtsEditor.com article
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