“Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.“ Combining the rational with the fantastical — in architecture, art and human terms — the Salvador Dalí Museum celebrates the life and work of Salvador Domingo […]
Tag: art history
Discover the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts
Explore Florida’s St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts: a noteworthy collection provides a tour of art history in intimate galleries. […]
The Kimbell: A Small Museum with an Out-Sized Reputation
The Kimbell Art Museum is distinguished by its architecture and a collection of exceptional artistic quality and importance. The collection of fewer than 350 works, has developed around representative pieces of notable aesthetic value that define a master, period, style, or area. […]
YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
The Yale University Art Gallery — associated with one of the top art history programs in the world — is the oldest university art museum in the western hemisphere. An encyclopaedic art collection is held in a living history of architecture. […]
Carl Rungius at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson WY
Carl Rungius — avid sportsman, ethical hunter, outdoors-man, and superb painter of the North American Western landscape and wildlife –was the most important big game painter and the first career wildlife artist in North America in the early 20th century. […]
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
The “National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States” displays paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by more than 550 artists, ranging from early American Tribes through contemporary masters. […]
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Recognized worldwide as one of America’s finest art museums, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an architectural marvel with a world-class collection of art. […]
100 Plaster Casts + 125 Years = 42,000 Art Objects
One of the oldest art museums in the United States and the oldest in the Pacific Northwest, the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon stewards a collection of some 42,000 objects, reflecting the history of art from ancient times to today. […]
Discovering the Maynard Dixon Museum, Tucson AZ
Tucked in a back corner the extraordinary Medicine Man Gallery — the Maynard Dixon Museum is small. But the overall experience is large — as was Maynard Dixon’s own mark on the world. […]
Lines of Thought: Drawings from Michelangelo to Now
Highlights from the British Museum. Hugo Chapman, Keeper of Prints and Drawings for the British Museum, calls it “the greatest exhibition of drawings we’ve ever organized.” […]