Phoenix Art Museum
Established | 18 November 1959 |
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Location | 1625 North Central Avenue United States |
Coordinates | 33°28′00″N 112°04′22″W / 33.466749°N 112.072655°W |
Type | Art museum[1] |
Public transit access | McDowell/Central Avenue |
Website | www |
The Phoenix Art Museum is the largest
It has been designated a Phoenix Point of Pride.[1][2]
History
Opened in 1959, the Phoenix Art Museum is located on the Central Avenue Corridor.
Shortly after
The next major advance in the local art community came during 1936, when the Phoenix Art Center was created under the auspices of the
In the early 1950s,
The museum opened on November 18, 1959, and was officially dedicated on November 21, 1959. Two years later, the board announced plans for an expansion, and in 1965 the museum was enlarged from 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2) to 72,000 square feet (6,700 m2). Additional expansions, led by design architects Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects of New York, occurred in 1996 and 2006.[6] The museum more than doubled its size with new exhibition galleries, a 300-seat public theater, a research library, studio classroom facilities, the PhxArtKids Gallery, and a café. Most recently, in 2006, the museum saw the opening of the Ellen and Howard C. Katz Wing for Modern Art, the Heather and Michael Greenbaum Museum Lobby, an expanded museum store and the 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) Bennett and Jacquie Dorrance Sculpture Garden. A new entrance from the north parking includes a cantilevered canopy, creating a large outdoor pavilion area.[7] The museum's growth has been funded, in part, by successful City of Phoenix Bond Elections and a voter-approved bond.[8]
In the last 50 years, the museum has hosted more than 400 exhibitions from all over the world, grown the collection to more than 18,000 works of art, and been visited by millions.[9]
Collections
In addition to an annual calendar of exhibitions, the museum's permanent collection galleries are drawn from more than 19,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design. Visitors also enjoy photography exhibitions through the museum's landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.
The museum has European paintings by Ubertini, Girolamo Genga, Guercino, Carlo Dolci, Bernardo Strozzi, Marcellus Coffermans, Jacob Cornelisz, Master of Astorga, Bartolomeus Bruyn the Elder, Nicolas Lepicie, Giovanni Piazzetta, Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Antoine Vestier, George Romney, Camille Corot, Hippolyte Delpy, Eugène Boudin, Jean-Léon Gérôme (Thumbs Down), Claude Monet (Garden Arches, Giverny), Max Beckmann, Léon Portau, Édouard Vuillard, and Pablo Picasso.[10] It has American paintings by Gilbert Stuart, Sanford Gifford, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonas Lie, Lew Davis, Ernest Blumenschein, Joseph Sharp, Howard Post, and Ed Mell.[11] It has contemporary art by Yayoi Kusama (You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies),[12] Viola Frey, Donald Martiny[13] Kehinde Wiley, Carlos Amorales (Black Cloud),[14] and Helen Frankenthaler.[15] It has 20th Century Sculpture by Aristide Maillol, Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Jacob Epstein, and Giacometti.[16]
Education
The museum offers several educational programs. The museum's Education Division programming is segmented by audience and type of learning strategy to accommodate a range of ages and learning styles, both formal and informal.
The Education Division also facilitates a nationally competitive Internship program. Internships are offered to current undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates with requisite coursework, experience, and background. The program is offered year-round and project-based internships are also offered on occasion.
Lemon Art Research Library
The Lemon Art Research Library is a non-circulating research library with an emphasis on the museum's art collection. It contains more than 40,000 books, periodicals, artist files and more. It is the largest specialized fine arts library in the region. It is free of charge during public hours.
Funding
Community support accounts for approximately 80% of the museum's revenue through admissions, membership and earned revenue, which includes the store and facility rentals. Government support of the museum is approximately 3% of the budget; corporate contributions constitute approximately 10% of the budget. The museum's endowment contributes the remainder, approximately 7%.[citation needed]
Gallery
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Adelaide Labille-Guiard, Madame Adelaide, 1791
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Jean-Léon Gérôme, Thumbs Down, 1872
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Julius LeBlanc Stewart, Spring Flowers, 1890
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Eugene Boudin, The Old Harbor at Touques, 1891
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Antonio Rizzi, Study in White, 1896
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Edouard Vuillard, Madame Hessel Working at a Dressmaker's Table, 1908
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Willard Franklin Midgette, Processing Sheep, 1976
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Kenneth Riley, Bodmer Painting Piegan Chief, 1986
See also
- List of historic properties in Phoenix, Arizona
References
- ^ a b Phoenix Art Museum: About, ARTINFO, 2008, retrieved 2008-07-24[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Communications Office Points of Pride". www.phoenix.gov. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
- ^ "History and Mission". About Us. Phoenix Art Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
- ^ "History of the Heard Museum". Heard Museum. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
- OCLC 48957880.
- ^ pls4e (2018-09-06). "Phoenix Art Museum". SAH ARCHIPEDIA. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Williams Tsien Phoenix Art Museum". the PhotoPhore. 2015-08-18. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ "History and Mission". Phoenix Art Museum. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
- ^ "History and Mission". Phoenix Art Museum. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
- ^ "European".
- ^ "Phoenix Art Museum American Collection". Phoenix Art Museum. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
- ^ "Yayoi Kusama at Phoenix Art Museum". Phoenix Art Museum. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
- ^ "Donald Martiny: Biography – Selected Collections". www.madionsgalleries.com. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Carlos Amorales at Phoenix Art Museum". Phoenix Art Museum. Archived from the original on 2018-07-11. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
- ^ "Contemporary".
- ^ "Modern".
External links
- Phoenix Art Museum website