Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Memphis, TN
901-544-6200
http://www.brooksmuseum.org/
About the Museum
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is the
oldest and largest fine arts institution in Tennessee. The Mid-South's leading
encyclopedic art museum is located in its original, landmark 1916 building,
and an award-winning 1989 addition. This addition includes the rotunda,
an auditorium, art studio, an orientation theater, a recently renovated
museum store, and a highly acclaimed restaurant, The Brushmark Restaurant,
which features floor to ceiling windows, as well as an outdoor terrace (one
of the largest in Memphis), overlooking historic Overton Park.
The Brooks permanent collection of paintings highlights
Italian Renaissance and Baroque as well as British, French Impressionists
and 20th Century artists. The Kress Collection is a magnificent assembly
of the best of this millionaire's Renaissance paintings. The Brooks has
one of the finest collections of English portraiture in the South, with
works by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Lawrence and Romney among others. Impressionists
include Pissarro, Sisley, and Renoir. Winslow Homer, Thomas Hart Benton,
Childe Hassam and Robert Henri are just a few of the Americans represented
at the Brooks, and many well-known figures in contemporary art are represented
in the Brooks and in the Fogelman Collection, including Kenneth Noland,
Robert Motherwell and Nancy Graves. In addition, one of the more noted collections
is that of an internationally-acclaimed regional artist, originally from
Arkansas, who lived in Memphis during the latter part of his life: Carroll
Clear.
The Brooks is located in Overton Park, off Poplar Avenue
just west of East Parkway and south of North Parkway and adjacent to the
Zoo. Admission fee. For hours and admission fees please see the Museum's
website.
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