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The 'Dallas Museum of Art' is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood.
The Dallas Museum of Art's history began with the establishment in 1903 of the Dallas Art Association, which initially exhibited paintings in the Dallas Public Library. In 1909, the association's collection received a permanent home in the Free Public Art Gallery of Dallas, located in Fair Park. The museum relocated several times over the years, only reaching its current downtown location in 1984, when it also officially took its current name.
The Museum's collections include the $20 million Hamon Building collection and the $38 million Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, along with 400 pieces of Egyptian and Nubian art.
The Reves collection is housed in an elaborate 15,000 square foot reproduction of the Reveses' Villa La Paula home in Italy, where the works originally were displayed. Among the paintings, sculptures, and works on paper are works from leading impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modernist artists, including Cézanne, Daumier, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and van Gogh. Another part of the Reves wing is devoted to decorative arts and includes Chinese export porcelain; European furniture; Oriental and European carpets; iron, bronze, and silver work; antique European glass; and rare books. Memorabilia of the Reveses' friendship with English statesman Winston Churchill is housed in the wing as well.
Main articles: Arts District, Dallas
Situated in the Arts District, the museum is close to several other significant cultural attractions, including the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Arts District Theater, the Ad-Libs Improvisational Comedy Theater, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, and the planned Dallas Center for the Performing Arts.
★ List of buildings and structures in Dallas, Texas
★ Dallas Museum of Art
DMA west entrance
| Contents |
| History |
| Collections |
| The Arts District |
| See also |
| External links |
History
The Dallas Museum of Art's history began with the establishment in 1903 of the Dallas Art Association, which initially exhibited paintings in the Dallas Public Library. In 1909, the association's collection received a permanent home in the Free Public Art Gallery of Dallas, located in Fair Park. The museum relocated several times over the years, only reaching its current downtown location in 1984, when it also officially took its current name.
Collections
The Museum's collections include the $20 million Hamon Building collection and the $38 million Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, along with 400 pieces of Egyptian and Nubian art.
The Reves collection is housed in an elaborate 15,000 square foot reproduction of the Reveses' Villa La Paula home in Italy, where the works originally were displayed. Among the paintings, sculptures, and works on paper are works from leading impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modernist artists, including Cézanne, Daumier, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and van Gogh. Another part of the Reves wing is devoted to decorative arts and includes Chinese export porcelain; European furniture; Oriental and European carpets; iron, bronze, and silver work; antique European glass; and rare books. Memorabilia of the Reveses' friendship with English statesman Winston Churchill is housed in the wing as well.
The Arts District
Main articles: Arts District, Dallas
Situated in the Arts District, the museum is close to several other significant cultural attractions, including the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Arts District Theater, the Ad-Libs Improvisational Comedy Theater, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, and the planned Dallas Center for the Performing Arts.
See also
★ List of buildings and structures in Dallas, Texas
External links
★ Dallas Museum of Art
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