Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Aerial View of MFAH © Aker/Zvonkovic
Houston, TX
713-639-7300
http://www.mfah.org
- The Modern West: American Landscapes,
1890-1950 (10/20/06)
- Bierstadt to O´Keeffe: Highlights
from the Stark Museum of Art (10/20/06)
- Notes from a Child's Odyssey: The
Art of Kermit Oliver (1/5/05)
- George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
(9/13/04)
- Taos Modern: Paintings by Herbert
Dunton from the Stark Museum of Art, Orange (7/14/04)
- African-American Art from the MFAH
Collection (2/12/04)
- Ruben Ortiz Torres - The Texas Leaguer
Turns Baseball on Its Bobble-Head at the Glassell School of Art (12/22/03)
- American Vision: Photographers from
the East, Selections from the Manfred Heiting Collection purchased by The
Brown Foundation for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; American Vision:
Photographers from the West, Selections from the Manfred Heiting Collection
purchased by The Brown Foundation for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
(12/22/03)
- Dual Exhibitions Explore American
Landscapes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (9/25/03)
- Cassatt and Duncanson Paintings Acquired
by MFAH (2/11/02)
- Paintings of Native America from
the Stark Museum of Art (12/03/01)
- The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists
on the Connecticut Shore (6/18/01)
- American Spectrum: Paintings and
Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art (2/16/01)
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Acquires The Last of the Tribes by Celebrated American Sculptor
Hiram Powers (1/13/01)
- The Pictures of Texas Monthly: Twenty-five
Years (10/13/00)
- Crossing State Lines: Texas Art from
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (9/24/00)
- American Watercolors (3/21/00)
- Irving Penn, A Career in Photography
(3/13/00)
- Internet Virtual Tour of Bayou Bend
Collection and Gardens Showcases Garden, Rooms and Yuletide Decorations
(12/19/99)
- Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works
by African American Women Artists (6/8/99)
- "American Art on Display"
at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (3/31/99)
- Major Expansion of
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Moves Forward with the Construction of
the Audrey Jones Beck Building (3/10/99)
- John Singer Sargent in Houston Collections
(9/21/98)
- Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
(9/21/98)
- Acquisition of Paintings by William Merritt
Chase and Charles Willson Peale Enriches American Holdings of the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston (8/2/98)
MFAH Collections
Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is the
largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C.,
and east of Los Angeles. The encyclopedic collection of the MFAH numbers
more than 57,000 works and embraces the art of antiquity to the present.
Featured are the finest artistic examples of the major civilizations of
Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa. Italian Renaissance paintings,
French Impressionist works, photographs, American and European decorative
arts, African and Pre-Columbian gold, American art, and European and American
paintings and sculpture from post-1945 are particularly strong holdings.
MFAH Campus
The MFAH collections are presented in six locations that
make up the institutional complex. Together, these facilities provide a
total of 300,000 square feet of space dedicated to the display of art. The
MFAH comprises:
- Two major museum buildings: the Caroline Wiess Law Building,
designed by Mies van der Rohe, and the Audrey Jones Beck Building, designed
by Rafael Moneo
- Two facilities for the Glassell School of Art: one with
studio spaces for children and another with studio spaces for adults
- Two house museums that exhibit decorative arts: Bayou
Bend Collection and Gardens features American works, Rienzi features European
works
- The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, created
by Isamu Noguchi
The Caroline Wiess Law Building is located at 1001 Bissonnet
between Montrose and Main streets. The Audrey Jones Beck Building is located
at 5601 Main Street. Please call the museum for hours and admission fees.
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