fbpx
Wikipedia

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

January 26, 2023

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in 2020, it is the 12th largest art museum in the world based on square feet of gallery space.[2] The permanent collection of the museum spans more than 6,000 years of history with approximately 70,000 works from six continents.[3]

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Watkin Building
Interactive fullscreen map
Established1900
Location1001 Bissonnet
Houston, TX 77005 United States
Coordinates29°43′32.498″N 95°23′25.501″W / 29.72569389°N 95.39041694°W / 29.72569389; -95.39041694Coordinates: 29°43′32.498″N 95°23′25.501″W / 29.72569389°N 95.39041694°W / 29.72569389; -95.39041694
TypeArt Museum, Institute, Library, Sculpture Park[1]
DirectorGary Tinterow
Public transit access
  Red Line
Museum District
Websitewww.mfah.org

Facilities

 
Caroline Wiess Law Building
 
Audrey Jones Beck Building
 
Glassell School of Art
 
Gardens at Bayou Bend, donated by Ima Hogg
 
Rienzi House Museum

The MFAH's permanent collection totals nearly 70,000 pieces in over 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2) of exhibition space,[4] placing it among the larger art museums in the United States. The museum's collections and programs are housed in nine facilities. The Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus encompasses 14 acres including seven of the facilities, with two additional facilities, Bayou Bend and Rienzi (house museums) at off site locations. The main public collections and exhibitions are in the Law, Beck, and Kinder buildings.[5][6] The Law and Beck buildings have over 130,000 square feet (12,000 m2) of exhibition space.[7]

The Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus

  • Caroline Wiess Law Building – the original neo-classical building was designed in phases by architect William Ward Watkin. The original Caroline Wiess Law building was constructed in 1924 and the east and west wing were added in 1926. The Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Wing was designed by Kenneth Franzheim and opened to the public in 1953. The new construction included significant structural improvements to several existing galleries—most notably, air conditioning. Two subsequent additions, Cullinan Hall and the Brown Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were built in 1958 and 1974 respectively. This section of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston campus is the only Mies-designed museum in the United States. The Caroline Wiess Law building provides an ideal space in which to exhibit temporary and traveling exhibitions, as well as installations of Islamic art, Pacific Island and Australian art, Asian art, Indonesian gold artworks, and Mesoamerican and sub-Saharan African art. Of special interest is the Glassell Collection of African Gold, the largest assemblage of its kind in the world.[8] Also the Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India, the only space in Houston for Indian Arts Culture.[9]
  • Audrey Jones Beck Building – Opened to the public in 2000, the Beck Building was designed by Rafael Moneo, a Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate.[10] The museum Trustees elected to name the building after Audrey Jones Beck in honor of the large collection she had donated to the museum several decades prior. In addition to traveling exhibitions and rotating temporary shows of photography, prints and drawings on the lower levels, the building displays the permanent collections of antiquities, European, and American art up to 1900, including the Impressionist.
  • Nancy and Rich Kinder Building – In 2012, the museum selected Steven Holl Architects to design a 164,000 sq ft (15,200 m2) expansion[11] that primarily holds galleries for art after 1900. Opened to the public in November 2020, the new building occupies a two-acre site north of the Caroline Wiess Law Building. The new MFAH building is adjacent to Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden and an expanded Glassell School of Art. In addition to a theater, restaurant, café, and seven small gardens and reflecting pools inset along the building's perimeter, the 237,213 square-foot Kinder building increases the museums overall exhibition space by nearly 75 percent. In 2021, The Bastion Collection opened Le Jardinier, a contemporary French restaurant emphasizing the highest-quality, seasonal ingredients from Michelin-starred chef Alain Verzeroli, and Italian-inspired Cafe Leonelli.[11][12][13]
  • The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden – was designed by US-born artist and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi and opened in 1986. The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden houses more than twenty-five works by artists from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries from the MFAH and other major collections.
  • Glassell School of Art – founded in 1979 and designed by architect S. I. Morris, the Glassell School of Art offers programs under the Studio School for Adults. The Glassell School of Art serves as the teaching wing of the MFAH, with a variety of classes, workshops, and educational opportunities for students diverse in age, interests, experience, and needs. In 2014, Steven Holl designed a new L-shaped building for the school, featuring a ramped amphitheatre that leads up to a walkable rooftop garden.[11] In addition to opening onto Noguchi's sculpture garden and providing added outdoor space for programs and performances, the 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2) building also sits atop an extensive underground parking garage.[11] The school offers classes at the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School, as well as Community Bridge Programs, special programs for youths, and the Core Artist-in-Residence Program.
  • Central Administration and Glassell Junior School of Art Building – The building, opened in 1994 and designed by Texan architectural designer Carlos Jimenez, houses the museum's administrative functions as well as the Glassell Junior School. The MFAH is the only museum facility in the United States that has a special building dedicated solely to art classes for children.[14]
  • The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation – is a 37,864-square-foot conservation center designed by Lake-Flato Architects that was completed in 2018. It is home to conservation labs and studios located above the museum's parking garage. It is not open to the public.[15]

Other facilities

  • Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens – features a collection of American decorative art and furniture. The Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, former home of Life Trustee Ima Hogg, was designed by architect John F. Staub in 1927. Miss Hogg donated the property to the MFAH in 1957, followed, in 1962, by the donation of its collection of paintings, furniture, ceramics, glass, metals, and textiles. Bayou Bend was officially dedicated and opened to the public in 1966. Situated on 14 acres (57,000 m2) of formal and woodland gardens five miles (8 km) from the main museum campus, the historic house museum documents American decorative and fine arts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.
  • Rienzi – the MFAH house museum for European decorative arts, Rienzi was donated to the MFAH by Carroll Sterling Masterson and Harris Masterson III in 1991. The residence, named for Rienzi Johnston, Mr. Masterson's grandfather, is situated on 4.4 acres (18,000 m2) in Homewood Addition, surrounded by Houston's River Oaks neighborhood. The structure was designed in 1952 by John F. Staub, the same architect who designed Bayou Bend. Completed in 1954, Rienzi served as both a family home and a center for Houston civic and philanthropic activity from the 1950s through the mid-1990s. After Mr. Masterson's death, the MFAH transformed the home into a museum and subsequently opened it to the public in 1999.[16]

History

 
Watkin Building, 1924

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is the oldest art museum in Texas. In 1917, the museum site was dedicated by the Houston Public School Art League (later the Houston Art League) with the intention of becoming a public art museum. The first museum building was opened to the public in 1924. The original building, designed by Houston architect William Ward Watkin in the Greek Neoclassical style, is the first art museum built in Texas. Today the MFAH encompasses three buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law, Audrey Jones Beck, and Nancy and Rich Kinder buildings, that house its primary collections and temporary exhibitions; two decorative arts house museums; The Glassell studio art school; a sculpture garden; a facility for conservation, storage and archives; and an administrative building with the Glassell Junior school of Art.

Prior to the opening of the permanent museum building in 1924, George M. Dickson bequeathed to the collection its first important American and European oil paintings. In the 1930s, Houstonian Annette Finnigan began her donation of antiquities and Texas philanthropist Ima Hogg gave her collection of avant-garde European prints and drawings. Ima Hogg's gift was followed by the subsequent donations of her Southwest Native American and Frederic Remington collections during the 1940s. The same decade witnessed the 1944 bequest of eighty-three Renaissance paintings, sculptures and works on paper from renowned New York collectors Edith and Percy Straus. Over the next two decades, gifts from prominent Houston families and foundations concentrated on European art from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, contemporary painting and sculpture, and African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian art. Among these are the gifts of Life Trustees Sarah Campbell Blaffer, Dominique de Menil and Alice N. Hanzsen as well as that of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Augmented by museum purchases, the permanent collection numbered 12,000 objects by 1970.

 
Museum circa 1926

The MFAH collection nearly doubled from 1970 to 1989, fueled by continued donations of art along with the advent of both accession endowment funding and corporate giving. In 1974, John and Audrey Jones Beck placed on long-term loan fifty Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces, augmenting the museum's already strong Impressionist collection. This collection would never leave the MFAH, formally entering its holdings in 1998 as a gift of Life Trustee Audrey Jones Beck. The collection is permanently displayed in the building that bears her name. On the heels of the Cullen Foundation's funding of the MFAH's first accessions endowment in 1970, the Brown Foundation, Inc., launched a challenge grant in 1976 that would stay in effect for twenty years raising funds for both accessions and operational costs in landmark amounts and providing incentive for additional community support. Also in 1976, the photography collection was established with Target Stores’ first corporate grant to the museum. Today the museum is the sixth-largest in the country.[17]

In 2001, the MFAH, established the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), the leading research institute for 20th-century Latin American and Latino art. The ICAA has been a pioneer in collecting, exhibiting and researching the diverse artistic production of Latin American and Latinx communities, including artists from Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and artists of Latin American descent living and working in the United States. Through the ICAA, the MFAH brought a long-term transformation in the appreciation and understanding of Latin American and Latinx visual arts in the United States and abroad.<ref="nytimes.com">Hilarie M. Sheets (November 13, 2020), [1]'

Collection

With approximately 70,000 works of art, the largest part of the museum's collection lie in the areas of Italian Renaissance painting, French Impressionism, photography, American and European decorative arts, African and pre-Columbian gold, American art, and post-1945 European and American painting and sculpture. Other facets of the collection include African-American art and Texas painting. Emerging collection interests of modern and contemporary Latin American art, including the artwork of all Texas Latino artists, Asian art, and Islamic art continue to strengthen the museum's collection diversity. As a result of its encyclopedic collection, the museum ranks nationally among the top ten art museums in attendance.[18]

Since 2019 Hossein Afshar Collection, one of the world's most distinguished private collections of Persian art, is on loan to MFAH. The museum has organised two exhibitions of this collection.[19]

Claim for restitution

In 2021 the Monuments Men Foundation announced that it had located a painting from the collection of Max Emden in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH).[20] According to the foundation, the painting by Bernardo Bellotto, called The Marketplace at Pirna, had an inaccurate provenance that concealed the history of the painting.[21][22]  After the MFAH refused to restitute the painting the Emden heirs filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Texas.[23][24]

The museum, which had rejected the Emden heirs’ claims since 2007, disagreed with the characterization of the painting as having been subject to a forced or duress sale due to Nazi persecution. MFAH director Gary Tinterow stated that Emden sold the painting voluntarily and, that after consulting provenance and legal experts, “we concluded that we had good title.”[25] The museum also states that the Bellotto is one of multiple nearly identical versions by the artist, and was bought by Samuel H. Kress in 1952 and later donated to the museum in 1961.[26]

Galleries

Arts of Africa, the Indigenous Pacific Islands, Australia, and the Americas [* = mixed media: ** = painted wood: *** = earthenware]

Arts of Asia and the Islamic Worlds

  •  

    Bian Shoumin, Wild Geese on Sandbank (1730), ink on paper, 132.1 × 70.2 cm.

  •  

    Kishi Ganku (Japan), Tiger in Landscape (1770-1839), ink and watercolor on paper, 171.2 × 372.1 × 1.5 cm.

  •  

    Indian, Rama, Lakshmana, and Sita Cooking and Eating in the Wilderness (c. 1820), gouache & gold on paper, 21.6 × 16.5 cm.

Antiquities

European and American painting (1400-1899) [all oil on canvas except: ** = tempera & gold leaf on panel; * = oil on panel]

Impressionism, postimpressionism, and early modern art [all oil on canvas unless noted otherwise]

Management

Philippe de Montebello directed the museum from 1969 to 1974.[27] During the 28-year tenure of Peter Marzio between 1982 and 2010, the Museum of Fine Arts’ yearly attendance increased to roughly two million from 300,000; its operating budget climbed to $52 million from $5 million, and its endowment reached $1 billion[17] (before the 2008 recession dropped its value to about $800 million).[27] The museum's permanent collection more than tripled in size, to 63,000 works from 20,000.[28] In 2010, Marzio was the sixth-highest-paid charity chief executive in the country, with compensation in 2008 of $1,054,939.[17] A year after Peter Marzio died in 2010, Gary Tinterow was appointed as the museum's director.[29] Mari Carmen Ramírez is a Puerto Rican Art curator and the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.[citation needed]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ . Google Arts & Culture. Archived from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  2. ^ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Campus Redevelopment, The Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus (accessed 19 October 2021)
  3. ^ "Major Expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Moves Forward with the Construction of the Audrey Jones Beck Building". Tfaoi.com. 1924-04-12. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  4. ^ "Tips for Visiting - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". mfah.org. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Museum of Fine Arts: Sarofim (main) Campus". mfah.org. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Museum of Fine Arts: The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building". mfah.org. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  7. ^ . offcite.org. 16 July 2015. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  8. ^ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. . Mfah.org. Archived from the original on 2011-02-10. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  9. ^ Villarreal, Ignacio. "Museum of Fine Arts in Houston Opens Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India Gallery". artdaily.com. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  10. ^ . Pritzkerprize.com. Archived from the original on 2011-12-09. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  11. ^ a b c d Pei-Ru Keh (January 19, 2015), Steven Holl Architects' dramatic expansion design for The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston Wallpaper.
  12. ^ Museum of Fine Arts, Houstom: Sarofim Campus (accessed 24 December 2020)
  13. ^ Robin Pogrebin (February 7, 2012), Houston Museum Chooses Architect for Expansion Plan New York Times.
  14. ^ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Glassell Junior School". Mfah.org. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  15. ^ "Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Campus Redevelopment". mfah.org. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  16. ^ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Rienzi". Mfah.org. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  17. ^ a b c Rebecca S. Cohen (April 9, 2011), Replacing a Museum Director Who Was a Rare Find New York Times.
  18. ^ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Collections (accessed 24 December 2020)
  19. ^ Between Sea and Sky: Blue and White Ceramics from Persia and Beyond
  20. ^ Cascone, Sarah (2021-08-18). "Restitution Experts Blast Houston's Museum of Fine Arts for Refusing to Return a Painting Once Purchased for Hitler's Museum". Artnet News. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  21. ^ Edsel, Robert (2021-08-31). "The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Must End Its Head-in-the-Sand Approach to Justice When It Comes to Restitution". Artnet News. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  22. ^ Villa, Angelica (2021-07-22). "MFA Houston Owns Bellotto Painting Sold Under Duress During World War II, Foundation Claims". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  23. ^ "Emden et al v. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". www.law360.com. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  24. ^ Cascone, Sarah (2021-10-19). . Artnet News. Archived from the original on 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  25. ^ Hickley, Catherine (2021-08-17). . The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2021-09-02. Retrieved 2022-01-26. But the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which ultimately came to possess the third Bellotto, has rejected the Emden heirs' claims since 2007. Its director, Gary Tinterow, argues that Emden sold the painting voluntarily and, that after conducting provenance research and consulting lawyers, "we concluded that we had good title."
  26. ^ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. MFAH Backgrounder and Statement: “The Marketplace at Pirna,” c. 1764, Bernardo Bellotto. (accessed 17 October 2021)
  27. ^ a b Douglas Britt (December 12, 2010), Peter Marzio, 67; transformed Houston museum Houston Chronicle.
  28. ^ William Grimes (December 11, 2010), Peter Marzio, Houston Museum Director, Dies at 67 New York Times.
  29. ^ Carol Vogel (December 1, 2011), Met Veteran Named Director of Houston Art Museum New York Times.

External links

  • Official website
  • Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.
  • International Center for the Arts of the Americas at MFAH
  • Virtual tour of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston provided by Google Arts & Culture
  •   Media related to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Wikimedia Commons

January 26, 2023
museum, fine, arts, houston, major, contributor, this, article, appears, have, close, connection, with, subject, require, cleanup, comply, with, wikipedia, content, policies, particularly, neutral, point, view, please, discuss, further, talk, page, october, 20. A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view Please discuss further on the talk page October 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Museum of Fine Arts Houston MFAH is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston Texas With the recent completion of an eight year campus redevelopment project including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in 2020 it is the 12th largest art museum in the world based on square feet of gallery space 2 The permanent collection of the museum spans more than 6 000 years of history with approximately 70 000 works from six continents 3 Museum of Fine Arts HoustonWatkin BuildingInteractive fullscreen mapEstablished1900Location1001 BissonnetHouston TX 77005 United StatesCoordinates29 43 32 498 N 95 23 25 501 W 29 72569389 N 95 39041694 W 29 72569389 95 39041694 Coordinates 29 43 32 498 N 95 23 25 501 W 29 72569389 N 95 39041694 W 29 72569389 95 39041694TypeArt Museum Institute Library Sculpture Park 1 DirectorGary TinterowPublic transit access Red Line Museum DistrictWebsitewww wbr mfah wbr org Contents 1 Facilities 1 1 The Susan and Fayez S Sarofim Campus 1 2 Other facilities 2 History 3 Collection 4 Claim for restitution 5 Galleries 6 Management 7 See also 8 Notes 9 External linksFacilities Edit Caroline Wiess Law Building Audrey Jones Beck Building Glassell School of Art Gardens at Bayou Bend donated by Ima Hogg Rienzi House Museum The MFAH s permanent collection totals nearly 70 000 pieces in over 300 000 square feet 28 000 m2 of exhibition space 4 placing it among the larger art museums in the United States The museum s collections and programs are housed in nine facilities The Susan and Fayez S Sarofim Campus encompasses 14 acres including seven of the facilities with two additional facilities Bayou Bend and Rienzi house museums at off site locations The main public collections and exhibitions are in the Law Beck and Kinder buildings 5 6 The Law and Beck buildings have over 130 000 square feet 12 000 m2 of exhibition space 7 The Susan and Fayez S Sarofim Campus Edit Caroline Wiess Law Building the original neo classical building was designed in phases by architect William Ward Watkin The original Caroline Wiess Law building was constructed in 1924 and the east and west wing were added in 1926 The Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Wing was designed by Kenneth Franzheim and opened to the public in 1953 The new construction included significant structural improvements to several existing galleries most notably air conditioning Two subsequent additions Cullinan Hall and the Brown Pavilion designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were built in 1958 and 1974 respectively This section of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston campus is the only Mies designed museum in the United States The Caroline Wiess Law building provides an ideal space in which to exhibit temporary and traveling exhibitions as well as installations of Islamic art Pacific Island and Australian art Asian art Indonesian gold artworks and Mesoamerican and sub Saharan African art Of special interest is the Glassell Collection of African Gold the largest assemblage of its kind in the world 8 Also the Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India the only space in Houston for Indian Arts Culture 9 Audrey Jones Beck Building Opened to the public in 2000 the Beck Building was designed by Rafael Moneo a Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate 10 The museum Trustees elected to name the building after Audrey Jones Beck in honor of the large collection she had donated to the museum several decades prior In addition to traveling exhibitions and rotating temporary shows of photography prints and drawings on the lower levels the building displays the permanent collections of antiquities European and American art up to 1900 including the Impressionist Nancy and Rich Kinder Building In 2012 the museum selected Steven Holl Architects to design a 164 000 sq ft 15 200 m2 expansion 11 that primarily holds galleries for art after 1900 Opened to the public in November 2020 the new building occupies a two acre site north of the Caroline Wiess Law Building The new MFAH building is adjacent to Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden and an expanded Glassell School of Art In addition to a theater restaurant cafe and seven small gardens and reflecting pools inset along the building s perimeter the 237 213 square foot Kinder building increases the museums overall exhibition space by nearly 75 percent In 2021 The Bastion Collection opened Le Jardinier a contemporary French restaurant emphasizing the highest quality seasonal ingredients from Michelin starred chef Alain Verzeroli and Italian inspired Cafe Leonelli 11 12 13 The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden was designed by US born artist and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi and opened in 1986 The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden houses more than twenty five works by artists from the nineteenth twentieth and twenty first centuries from the MFAH and other major collections Glassell School of Art founded in 1979 and designed by architect S I Morris the Glassell School of Art offers programs under the Studio School for Adults The Glassell School of Art serves as the teaching wing of the MFAH with a variety of classes workshops and educational opportunities for students diverse in age interests experience and needs In 2014 Steven Holl designed a new L shaped building for the school featuring a ramped amphitheatre that leads up to a walkable rooftop garden 11 In addition to opening onto Noguchi s sculpture garden and providing added outdoor space for programs and performances the 80 000 sq ft 7 400 m2 building also sits atop an extensive underground parking garage 11 The school offers classes at the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School as well as Community Bridge Programs special programs for youths and the Core Artist in Residence Program Central Administration and Glassell Junior School of Art Building The building opened in 1994 and designed by Texan architectural designer Carlos Jimenez houses the museum s administrative functions as well as the Glassell Junior School The MFAH is the only museum facility in the United States that has a special building dedicated solely to art classes for children 14 The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation is a 37 864 square foot conservation center designed by Lake Flato Architects that was completed in 2018 It is home to conservation labs and studios located above the museum s parking garage It is not open to the public 15 Other facilities Edit Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens features a collection of American decorative art and furniture The Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens former home of Life Trustee Ima Hogg was designed by architect John F Staub in 1927 Miss Hogg donated the property to the MFAH in 1957 followed in 1962 by the donation of its collection of paintings furniture ceramics glass metals and textiles Bayou Bend was officially dedicated and opened to the public in 1966 Situated on 14 acres 57 000 m2 of formal and woodland gardens five miles 8 km from the main museum campus the historic house museum documents American decorative and fine arts from the seventeenth to the mid nineteenth centuries Rienzi the MFAH house museum for European decorative arts Rienzi was donated to the MFAH by Carroll Sterling Masterson and Harris Masterson III in 1991 The residence named for Rienzi Johnston Mr Masterson s grandfather is situated on 4 4 acres 18 000 m2 in Homewood Addition surrounded by Houston s River Oaks neighborhood The structure was designed in 1952 by John F Staub the same architect who designed Bayou Bend Completed in 1954 Rienzi served as both a family home and a center for Houston civic and philanthropic activity from the 1950s through the mid 1990s After Mr Masterson s death the MFAH transformed the home into a museum and subsequently opened it to the public in 1999 16 History Edit Watkin Building 1924 The Museum of Fine Arts Houston MFAH is the oldest art museum in Texas In 1917 the museum site was dedicated by the Houston Public School Art League later the Houston Art League with the intention of becoming a public art museum The first museum building was opened to the public in 1924 The original building designed by Houston architect William Ward Watkin in the Greek Neoclassical style is the first art museum built in Texas Today the MFAH encompasses three buildings the Caroline Wiess Law Audrey Jones Beck and Nancy and Rich Kinder buildings that house its primary collections and temporary exhibitions two decorative arts house museums The Glassell studio art school a sculpture garden a facility for conservation storage and archives and an administrative building with the Glassell Junior school of Art Prior to the opening of the permanent museum building in 1924 George M Dickson bequeathed to the collection its first important American and European oil paintings In the 1930s Houstonian Annette Finnigan began her donation of antiquities and Texas philanthropist Ima Hogg gave her collection of avant garde European prints and drawings Ima Hogg s gift was followed by the subsequent donations of her Southwest Native American and Frederic Remington collections during the 1940s The same decade witnessed the 1944 bequest of eighty three Renaissance paintings sculptures and works on paper from renowned New York collectors Edith and Percy Straus Over the next two decades gifts from prominent Houston families and foundations concentrated on European art from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries contemporary painting and sculpture and African Oceanic and Pre Columbian art Among these are the gifts of Life Trustees Sarah Campbell Blaffer Dominique de Menil and Alice N Hanzsen as well as that of the Samuel H Kress Foundation Augmented by museum purchases the permanent collection numbered 12 000 objects by 1970 Museum circa 1926 The MFAH collection nearly doubled from 1970 to 1989 fueled by continued donations of art along with the advent of both accession endowment funding and corporate giving In 1974 John and Audrey Jones Beck placed on long term loan fifty Impressionist and Post Impressionist masterpieces augmenting the museum s already strong Impressionist collection This collection would never leave the MFAH formally entering its holdings in 1998 as a gift of Life Trustee Audrey Jones Beck The collection is permanently displayed in the building that bears her name On the heels of the Cullen Foundation s funding of the MFAH s first accessions endowment in 1970 the Brown Foundation Inc launched a challenge grant in 1976 that would stay in effect for twenty years raising funds for both accessions and operational costs in landmark amounts and providing incentive for additional community support Also in 1976 the photography collection was established with Target Stores first corporate grant to the museum Today the museum is the sixth largest in the country 17 In 2001 the MFAH established the International Center for the Arts of the Americas ICAA the leading research institute for 20th century Latin American and Latino art The ICAA has been a pioneer in collecting exhibiting and researching the diverse artistic production of Latin American and Latinx communities including artists from Mexico Central and South America the Caribbean and artists of Latin American descent living and working in the United States Through the ICAA the MFAH brought a long term transformation in the appreciation and understanding of Latin American and Latinx visual arts in the United States and abroad lt ref nytimes com gt Hilarie M Sheets November 13 2020 1 Collection EditWith approximately 70 000 works of art the largest part of the museum s collection lie in the areas of Italian Renaissance painting French Impressionism photography American and European decorative arts African and pre Columbian gold American art and post 1945 European and American painting and sculpture Other facets of the collection include African American art and Texas painting Emerging collection interests of modern and contemporary Latin American art including the artwork of all Texas Latino artists Asian art and Islamic art continue to strengthen the museum s collection diversity As a result of its encyclopedic collection the museum ranks nationally among the top ten art museums in attendance 18 Since 2019 Hossein Afshar Collection one of the world s most distinguished private collections of Persian art is on loan to MFAH The museum has organised two exhibitions of this collection 19 Claim for restitution EditIn 2021 the Monuments Men Foundation announced that it had located a painting from the collection of Max Emden in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston MFAH 20 According to the foundation the painting by Bernardo Bellotto called The Marketplace at Pirna had an inaccurate provenance that concealed the history of the painting 21 22 After the MFAH refused to restitute the painting the Emden heirs filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Texas 23 24 The museum which had rejected the Emden heirs claims since 2007 disagreed with the characterization of the painting as having been subject to a forced or duress sale due to Nazi persecution MFAH director Gary Tinterow stated that Emden sold the painting voluntarily and that after consulting provenance and legal experts we concluded that we had good title 25 The museum also states that the Bellotto is one of multiple nearly identical versions by the artist and was bought by Samuel H Kress in 1952 and later donated to the museum in 1961 26 Galleries EditArts of Africa the Indigenous Pacific Islands Australia and the Americas mixed media painted wood earthenware Arts of Asia and the Islamic Worlds Bian Shoumin Wild Geese on Sandbank 1730 ink on paper 132 1 70 2 cm Kishi Ganku Japan Tiger in Landscape 1770 1839 ink and watercolor on paper 171 2 372 1 1 5 cm Indian Rama Lakshmana and Sita Cooking and Eating in the Wilderness c 1820 gouache amp gold on paper 21 6 16 5 cm AntiquitiesEuropean and American painting 1400 1899 all oil on canvas except tempera amp gold leaf on panel oil on panel Fra Angelico Saint Anthony Abbot Shunning the Mass of Gold c 1435 1440 19 7 x 28 1 cm Giovanni di Paolo Saint Clare Rescuing a Child Mauled by a Wolf c 1453 1462 20 628 1 cm Rogier van der Weyden Virgin and Child after 1454 31 9 x 22 86 cm Hans Memling Portrait of an Old Woman c 1468 70 25 6 x 17 7 cm Alessandro Botticelli The Adoration of the Christ Child c 1500 120 7 cm diameter Lucas Cranach the Elder The Suicide of Lucretia 1529 74 9 x 53 9 cm Jacopo Bassano Christ in the House of Mary Martha and Lazarus c 1577 98 4 126 4 cm Bartolomeo Cavarozzi Virgin and Child with Angels c 1620 155 3 125 1 cm Rembrandt van Rijn Portrait of a Young Woman 1633 65 2 x 48 7 cm Matthias Stom The Judgement of Solomon c 1640 152 5 204 9 cm Jacob van Ruisdael Landscape with Cornfields c 1670s 55 2 x 62 8 cm Jan Weenix Still Life of Game including a Hare Black Grouse Partridge Spaniel and Pigeon in Flight c 1680 157 2 182 2 cm Canaletto Entrance to the Grand Canal Venice c 1730 49 5 73 7 cm Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Juno and Luna 1735 1745 213 x 231 1 cm Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin The Good Education c 1753 41 4 47 3 cm Angelica Kauffmann Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus 1774 63 8 x 90 9 cm Charles Wilson Peale Self Portrait with Angelica and Rachel 1782 1785 91 8 68 9 cm Joseph Mallord William Turner Sheerness as Seen From the Nore 1808 104 5 149 6 cm Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes Still Life with Golden Bream 1808 1812 44 7 x 62 5 cm Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld 1861 112 3 x 137 1 cm William Adolphe Bouguereau The Elder Sister 1869 130 2 97 2 cm John Singer Sargent Mrs Sarah Montgomery Sears 1899 1 476 50 x 968 50 cm Impressionism postimpressionism and early modern art all oil on canvas unless noted otherwise Pierre Auguste Renoir Nature morte au bouquet 1871 73 7 59 1 cm Camille Pissarro The Goose Girl at Montfoucault 1876 57 8 73 cm Gustave Caillebotte Les Orangers 1878 154 9 116 8 cm Berthe Morisot The Basket Chair 1882 61 3 x 75 5 cm Claude Monet Water Lilies Nympheas 1907 92 1 81 2 cm Paul Cezanne Madame Cezanne in Blue 1888 1890 74 1 61 cm Vincent van Gogh The Rocks 1888 54 9 65 7 cm Paul Signac The Bonaventure Pine 1893 65 7 81 cm Odilon Redon Two Young Girls among Flowers 1912 62 2 x 51 4 cm Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Moonrise Soldier and Maiden 1905 oil on board 69 9 x 49 5 cm Vasily Kandinsky Sketch 160A 1912 94 9 108 cm Piet Mondrian Composition with Grid No 1 1918 80 2 x 49 9 cm Amedeo Modigliani Leopold Zborowski c 1916 116 2 73 cm Chaim Soutine The Chicken c 1926 102 2 76 1 cm Management EditPhilippe de Montebello directed the museum from 1969 to 1974 27 During the 28 year tenure of Peter Marzio between 1982 and 2010 the Museum of Fine Arts yearly attendance increased to roughly two million from 300 000 its operating budget climbed to 52 million from 5 million and its endowment reached 1 billion 17 before the 2008 recession dropped its value to about 800 million 27 The museum s permanent collection more than tripled in size to 63 000 works from 20 000 28 In 2010 Marzio was the sixth highest paid charity chief executive in the country with compensation in 2008 of 1 054 939 17 A year after Peter Marzio died in 2010 Gary Tinterow was appointed as the museum s director 29 Mari Carmen Ramirez is a Puerto Rican Art curator and the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston citation needed See also Edit Texas portal Visual arts portalBayou Bend Collection and Gardens Ima Hogg Samuel Henry Kress List of most visited museums in the United States List of claims for restitution for Nazi looted artNotes Edit The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Houston United States Google Arts amp Culture Archived from the original on 15 October 2022 Retrieved 22 November 2022 The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Campus Redevelopment The Susan and Fayez S Sarofim Campus accessed 19 October 2021 Major Expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Moves Forward with the Construction of the Audrey Jones Beck Building Tfaoi com 1924 04 12 Retrieved 2012 09 19 Tips for Visiting The Museum of Fine Arts Houston mfah org Retrieved 23 May 2018 Museum of Fine Arts Sarofim main Campus mfah org Retrieved 24 December 2020 Museum of Fine Arts The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building mfah org Retrieved 22 December 2020 Ontologically every thing is unique Behind the Curtain at the MFAH OffCite Blog offcite org 16 July 2015 Archived from the original on 22 August 2016 Retrieved 5 April 2018 The Museum of Fine Arts Houston The Glassell Collections Mfah org Archived from the original on 2011 02 10 Retrieved 2012 09 19 Villarreal Ignacio Museum of Fine Arts in Houston Opens Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India Gallery artdaily com Retrieved 5 April 2018 The Hyatt Foundation Pritzkerprize com Archived from the original on 2011 12 09 Retrieved 2012 09 19 a b c d Pei Ru Keh January 19 2015 Steven Holl Architects dramatic expansion design for The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston Wallpaper Museum of Fine Arts Houstom Sarofim Campus accessed 24 December 2020 Robin Pogrebin February 7 2012 Houston Museum Chooses Architect for Expansion Plan New York Times The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Glassell Junior School Mfah org Retrieved 2012 09 19 Museum of Fine Arts Houston Campus Redevelopment mfah org Retrieved 24 December 2020 The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Rienzi Mfah org Retrieved 2012 09 19 a b c Rebecca S Cohen April 9 2011 Replacing a Museum Director Who Was a Rare Find New York Times The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Collections accessed 24 December 2020 Between Sea and Sky Blue and White Ceramics from Persia and Beyond Cascone Sarah 2021 08 18 Restitution Experts Blast Houston s Museum of Fine Arts for Refusing to Return a Painting Once Purchased for Hitler s Museum Artnet News Retrieved 2021 10 17 Edsel Robert 2021 08 31 The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Must End Its Head in the Sand Approach to Justice When It Comes to Restitution Artnet News Retrieved 2021 10 17 Villa Angelica 2021 07 22 MFA Houston Owns Bellotto Painting Sold Under Duress During World War II Foundation Claims ARTnews com Retrieved 2021 10 17 Emden et al v The Museum of Fine Arts Houston www law360 com Retrieved 2021 10 17 Cascone Sarah 2021 10 19 The Heirs of a Jewish Collector Are Suing the Museum of Fine Arts Houston for the Return of a Bellotto Painting Artnet News Archived from the original on 2021 10 19 Retrieved 2022 01 26 Hickley Catherine 2021 08 17 What Constitutes Art Sales Under Duress A Dispute Reignites the Question The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on 2021 09 02 Retrieved 2022 01 26 But the Museum of Fine Arts Houston which ultimately came to possess the third Bellotto has rejected the Emden heirs claims since 2007 Its director Gary Tinterow argues that Emden sold the painting voluntarily and that after conducting provenance research and consulting lawyers we concluded that we had good title Museum of Fine Arts Houston MFAH Backgrounder and Statement The Marketplace at Pirna c 1764 Bernardo Bellotto accessed 17 October 2021 a b Douglas Britt December 12 2010 Peter Marzio 67 transformed Houston museum Houston Chronicle William Grimes December 11 2010 Peter Marzio Houston Museum Director Dies at 67 New York Times Carol Vogel December 1 2011 Met Veteran Named Director of Houston Art Museum New York Times External links EditOfficial website Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston hosted by the Portal to Texas History International Center for the Arts of the Americas at MFAH Virtual tour of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston provided by Google Arts amp Culture Media related to Museum of Fine Arts Houston at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Museum of Fine Arts Houston amp oldid 1129900136, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.