Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

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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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Established1916
Location1934 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee
Coordinates35°08′40″N 89°59′43″W / 35.144343°N 89.995155°W / 35.144343; -89.995155
TypeArt museum
DirectorMark Resnick
Public transit accessBus interchange MATA
Websitehttp://www.brooksmuseum.org/

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is an

Midtown Memphis.[1]

History and structure

Overton Park complex

Recessed loggia entrance behind a Serlian screen of the original building by James Gamble Rogers, 1915

The original

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The expansion, which doubled the square footage of the existing building, included a new public entrance as well as a three-story gallery space where the old and new buildings join.[4]

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. The Brooks facilities also include the Brooks Museum Store, Cafe Brooks by City + State, the Holly Court garden, and a grand terrace that overlooks the greens and trees of Overton Park.

Downtown museum

As of 2024, a new adjunct building is under construction in downtown Memphis.[5] The design team included architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron.[6] The "downtown" museum is slated to open in late 2025. The facility will include a public courtyard, a theater, galleries, and spaces from which to view the Mississippi River.[5]

Permanent collection

Paintings in the permanent collection include works by

Renoir, and many American impressionists: Winslow Homer, Thomas Hart Benton, Childe Hassam, and Robert Henri. The contemporary collection includes paintings by Kenneth Noland, Robert Motherwell, Mark Kostabi and Nancy Graves, plus the nationally known Memphis artist Carroll Cloar
.

The Brooks Museum also conserves a selection of 19th and 20th century sculpture and decorative arts, including furniture and textiles.

See also

References

  1. ^ Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
  2. ^ a b "About the Brooks Museum". Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Retrieved January 7, 2025.
  3. ^ (Memphis Brooks Museum) "Our History" Archived 2010-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "SOM Project Page for Memphis Brooks Museum of Art". Archived from the original on October 16, 2009.
  5. ^ a b "Brooks Downtown: A New Art Museum for Memphis". Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Retrieved January 7, 2025.
  6. ^ "Memphis' New Art Museum". Build Memphis Art. Retrieved January 7, 2025.
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