Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Fernando Botero's Smoking Woman is looking to the Three Graces of Memphis | |
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| Established | 1916 |
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| Location | 1934 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee |
| Coordinates | 35°08′40″N 89°59′43″W / 35.144343°N 89.995155°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | Mark Resnick |
| Public transit access |  MATA |
| Website | http://www.brooksmuseum.org/ |
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is an
History and structure
The original
The facility consists of 29 galleries, art classrooms, a print study room with over 4,500 works of art on paper, a research library with over 5,000 volumes, and an auditorium. The collection has over ten thousand works of art, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and examples of the decorative arts. Of particular note are the Samuel H. Kress Collection of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, the Hugo N. Dixon Collection of Impressionist paintings, the Levy Collection of American prints, the Goodman Book Collection, and the Goodheart Collection of Carl Gutherz paintings, drawings, and archival material.
Permanent collection
Paintings in the permanent collection include works by
The Brooks Museum also conserves a selection of 19th and 20th century sculpture and decorative arts, including furniture and textiles.
See also
References
- ^ Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
- ^ (Memphis Brooks Museum) "Our History" Archived 2010-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "SOM Project Page for Memphis Brooks Museum of Art". Archived from the original on 2009-10-16.
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