Fine Art Museums and Special Art Collections
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Arnold
Arboretum - Harvard Unversity
125 Arborway - Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-3500
The Arnold Arboretum was established
in 1872 when the trustees of the will of James Arnold,
a whaling merchant of New Bedford, Massachusetts,
transferred a portion of Arnold's estate to the
President and Fellows of Harvard College. In the
deed of trust the income was to be
used for “an arboretum … which shall
contain, as far as practicable, all the trees either
indigenous or exotic, which can be raised in the
open air." Working with Frederick Law Olmsted,
Charles S. Sargent the first director, designed
the 265 acre site to accommodate woody plants from
around the world. Today the Arnold Arboretum of
Harvard University displays over 15,000 plants,
maintains over 5 million herbarium specimens, and
has library holdings in excess of 200,000 volumes.
Example Art/Artists: Botanical
Images from Catesby, Lambert, Schmidt, Sprague, Trew,
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The
British Library
St Pancras, 96 Euston
Road - London NW1 2DB -
United Kingdom
The British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's
great repositories of knowledge. Serving business, educational,
and individual needs, its vision is to make the intellectual,
scientific and cultural heritage of the world accessible to
all people. Materials from 300 BC to the present are included
in its holdings with the Magna Carta and Leonardo da Vinci
notebooks among its treasures.
Example
Art/Artists: Beowulf, Diamond Sutra, Gutenberg
Bible, Magna Carta, Leonardo
da Vinci notebooks |
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The
British Museum
Great
Russell Street - London WC1B 3DG -
United Kingdom
The British Museum is one of
the greatest museums of the world. It was founded by
Act of Parliament in 1753 and is now governed
under the British Museum Act 1963. General management
and control are vested in a Board of twenty-five Trustees
(one appointed by the Sovereign, fifteen by the Prime
Minister, four nominated by Learned societies and five
elected by the Trustees) themselves.
Example Art/Artists: Albrecht
Dürer,
Blake, Choki,
Hokusai,
Rembrandt, Turner, Utamaro, John White |
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Cleveland
Botanical Garden
11030 East Boulevard,
Cleveland, OH 44106
From its beginnings in 1930 as a tiny library of gardening books to a future
as an international leader in environmental education, conservation and research,
Cleveland Botanical Garden has long been a place of beauty and a source of inspiration
and information. The Garden encourages people of all backgrounds to understand
and value plants in their lives. With 10 acres of award-winning, jewel-like outdoor
gardens, and with a state-of-the-art conservatory featuring the spiny desert
of Madagascar and the Costa Rican cloud forest, the Garden is a living laboratory.
It is also a beautiful oasis in the heart of University Circle, Cleveland's cultural
district.
Example Art/Artists: Etienne Denisse |
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DeGolyer
Library
P. O. Box 750396, Southern
Methodist University - Dallas, TX 75275-0396
Today the DeGolyer Library holds 100,000
volumes of rare and scholarly works devoted to the exploration
and discovery of the Americas, Western Americana, the Spanish
borderlands, and Texana. The library
also possesses materials related to transportation history,
especially railroads worldwide. In addition to printed books,
the library preserves 5000 cubic feet of manuscript material
and 400,000 photographs.
Example Art/Artists: N/A |
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Denver
Art Museum
13th Ave & Acoma,
Downtown Denver - Denver, CO 80204
The Denver Art Museum, founded in
1893, has the largest and most comprehensive collection of
world art between Kansas City and the West Coast. Its
American Indian art collection is internationally
renowned, and its pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial
art collection is outstanding. Other impressive
collections include Painting & Sculpture,
Asian, Architecture, Design & Graphics, Modern & Contemporary,
and Textile Art.
Example Art/Artists: Deas,
Degas, Bierstadt, Bouguereau, Hicks, Monet, Pissarro |
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Desert
Botanical Garden
1201 North Galvin Parkway
- Phoenix,
AZ 85008
The Desert Botanical Garden is one of the
best-maintained gardens in the world, enjoyed by local residents
and visitors from around the world. It holds one of the world's
foremost collections of desert plants with detailed records
on all plants in the collection, information which is of both
horticultural and botanical value. The collection and its documentation
are of significance world-wide in conservation, education and
research.
Example
Art/Artists: Albrecht,
Ehret, Finch, Fossier, Henderson, Redoute |
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Desert
Caballeros Western Museum
21
North Frontier Street -
Wickenburg AZ 85390
You'll find western art, cowboy gear,
and Native American arts, plus period rooms and dioramas from
Arizona's territorial era. Come discover the "West as it was" in
Arizona's Most Western Museum.
Example Art/Artists: Albert Bierstadt,
George Catlin, Maynard Dixon, Lon Megargee, Thomas Moran,
Fredrick Remington, Charles M. Russell, Olaf Wieghorst |
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Dietrich
Photography
PO Box 1138
- Wickenburg, AZ 85358
Providing creative professionals with first
quality photographic illustrations of outstanding clarity, color
and impact for advertising, publishing, editorial, corporate, wall
art and retail uses by Dick Dietrich and Dianne Dietrich Leis.
Example Art/Artists: Dick Dietrich
and Dianne Dietrich Leis Photography |
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Harvard
University Art Museums
The Harvard University Art
Museums, one of the leading arts institutions in the
world, is distinguished by the range and depth of its
collections, groundbreaking exhibitions, and original
research. The three Harvard University Art Museums—the Fogg Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger
Museum, and Arthur M. Sackler Museum—are all outstanding
institutions in their respective fields. The 150,000 objects
in the collections date from antiquity to the present, and
come from Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle
East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Example
Art/Artists: Burne-Jones,
Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Homer, Hopper,
Hsuan-tsung , Ingres, Klee, Klimt, Marc, Michelangelo,
Monet, Rembrandt, Renoir, Rossetti, Sargent, Van Gogh,
Whistler |
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Historic
New England Collection
SPNEA Headquarters, 141 Cambridge
Street - Boston, MA 02114
Founded
in 1910 to protect New England's cultural and
architectural heritage, SPNEA is an internationally
known museum and national leader in preservation,
research, and innovative programming. SPNEA is
headquartered in Boston, with museums located
throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Rhode Island. SPNEA's Mission:
SPNEA is a museum of cultural history that collects
and preserves buildings, landscapes, and objects
dating from the seventeenth century to the present
and uses them to keep history alive and to help
people develop a deeper understanding and enjoyment
of New England life and an appreciation for its
preservation.
Example
Art/Artists: Burne-Jones,
Paul Revere |
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Japanese
Gardens Portland
611 S.W. Kingston
Ave. - Portland, Oregon 97201
The Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon
is one of the most beautiful and authentic outside of Japan. Founded in 1962, The Garden
was designed by Professor Takuma Tono, an internationally renowned
authority on Japanese garden landscaping. It is composed of
five separate styles: the Flat Garden, the Strolling Pond Garden,
the Tea Garden, the Natural Garden, and the Dry Landscape Garden.
Example Art/Artists: Dianne Dietrich
Leis |
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Lawrence
Arts Center
940 New Hampshire Street -
Lawrence, Kansas 66044
For 25 years, the Lawrence Arts Center has acted as
a unifying force in our community, drawing people of
all ages, neighborhoods, backgrounds and abilities
to participate in an ever-growing array of education,
exhibition and performance programs. Performing and
visual arts programs have steadily grown to an annual participation
of 95,000.
Example
Art/Artists: "Grandma" Layton |
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Monterey
Museum of Art
Civic Center, 559 Pacific Street
- Monterey CA 93940
Noted for its endeavor to enrich
and educate through the arts, the Monterey Museum of Art
has been called "the best small
town Museum in the United States." The museum's permanent
collection includes California paintings, sculpture, works
on paper and photography, Asian art, international folk art,
and features significant bodies of work by Armin Hansen,
William Ritschel, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston.
Example
Art/Artists: Bruton,
Hansen, McCormick, Partington, Ritschel |
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Mount
Holyoke College Art Museum
Lower Lake Road - South
Hadley, MA 01075-1499
Recently renovated and expanded, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum is
one of the oldest collegiate museums in the United States. Its founding
in 1876 was marked by the gift of Albert Bierstadt's majestic painting "Hetch
Hetchy Canyon". Located in the culturally rich Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts
on one of America’s most beautiful campuses, the museum maintains
an exquisite comprehensive collection of more than 11,000 objects, ranging
from ancient Egypt, China, and Peru to contemporary America.
Example Art/Artists: Bierstadt,
Daubigny, Winslow Homer |
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Munson-Williams-Proctor
Arts Institute
310 Genesee Street - Utica, NY
13502
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, a renowned fine arts center
founded in 1919, features a permanent collection especially noted
for artwork by the Hudson River School. The museum is also a major
repository of 19th-century American decorative arts and 20th-century
American paintings and drawings with important holdings of the
New York School.
Example
Art/Artists: Cole, Copley, Dali, Frankenthaler,
Kandinsky, Mondrian, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Pollock,
Prendergast, Rothenberg, Stella, Tait and Whistler |
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Museum
of New Mexico - Museum of Fine Arts
107 West Palace
Avenue - Santa Fe, NM 87050
This masterpiece of Pueblo Revival
architecture was built in 1917 and as the state’s oldest
art museum is home to more than 20,000 works of art, with an
emphasis on artists working in the Southwest. View a distinguished
collection that spans the historic art colonies of Taos and
Santa Fe of the past 100 years to cutting-edge contemporary
art from around the region and the world.
Example
Art/Artists: Jozef G. Bakos, Andrew Michael
Dasburg, Willard van Dyke, Rebecca Salsbury James, James
Stoval Morris |
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NASA
300 E St. SW - Washington, D.C.
Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific
and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also
has been adapted for many non-aerospace uses by the private sector.
NASA remains a leading force in scientific research and in stimulating
public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as science and
technology in general. Perhaps more importantly, our exploration
of space has taught us to view the Earth, ourselves, and the universe
in a new way.
Example
Art/Artists: N/A |
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National
Maritime Museum
Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
England
With over 2,000,000 items
related to seafaring, navigation and astronomy in its
care, the National Maritime Museum is the largest institution
of its kind in the world. The National Maritime Museum
collection of prints and drawings alone numbers 60,000
with 30,000 of them drawings, watercolours and sketchbook
sheets, ranging from works by the early Dutch marine
painters in the 17th century to works by British marine
painters of the 18th - 20th centuries, naval officers
and the official artists of the Second World War who
painted and drew all aspects of their experiences.
Example
Art/Artists: Cooke, Hodges, Turner |
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National
Museum of American Illustration
492 Bellevue Avenue,
Newport, RI, 02840
The Museum's American
Imagist Collection features masterpieces of
illustrative art from 'The Golden Age of American
Illustration,' (1870-1965) and is the largest
such collection. Illustrators combine personal
expression with pictorial representation in
order to convey ideas. For the most part, they
are traditionally trained at fine art schools.
The American Illustrators Gallery (AIG) is
the premier exhibitor, buyer and seller of
American illustration art in the world. The
American Illustrators Gallery features the
foremost illustrators and exhibits only the
highest-quality examples of their original
artwork. International museums, auction houses,
and the most renowned art dealers refer connoisseurs,
collectors, and educators alike to the American
Illustrators Gallery.
Example Art/Artists:
Maxfield Parrish |
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New
Mexico Magazine
Lew
Wallace Building, 495
Old Santa Fe Trail - Santa Fe, NM 87501
New Mexico Magazine, founded in 1923,
reigns as the oldest state magazine in the United States. Featuring
spectacular images and fascinating articles, it serves as the
primary connection for thousands of people interested in the
cultures, stories, landscapes and people of this ancient land.
These Classic Magazine Covers and photographs offer beautiful
evidence that New Mexico is indeed, "The Land of Enchantment".
Example Art/Artists: New Mexico
Magazine Old Covers, New Mexico Photography |
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Norman
Rockwell Estate
Norman
Rockwell portrayed America so beautifully that
his art has become a symbol of our nation.
His artwork is filled with the details of ordinary
people in everyday life, and captures the essence
of the American spirit. Norman Rockwell's illustrations
recall a simpler time and place that existed
not only in his own imagination, but in the
hopes and dreams of the nation he loved.
Artist: Norman Rockwell |
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Orlando
Museum of Art
2416 North Mills Avenue - Orlando,
Florida 32803-1483
The Orlando Museum of Art is a leading cultural institution dedicated
to collecting, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of local,
regional, national and international significance. Cited as one
of the best art museums in the South, its American Art Collection
consists of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures
from the 18th century to the present.
Example
Art/Artists: Peale,
Sargent, Moran, Hassam, Inness, and O'Keeffe |
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Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richmond, Surrey TW9
3AB - United Kingdom
The mission of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is to enable better
management of the Earth's environment by increasing knowledge and
understanding of the plant and fungal kingdoms - the basis of life
on earth. On 3 July 2003 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was officially
inscribed on the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The eminence
of Kew today is thanks to a succession of avid collectors, visionary
scientists, inspired landscape architects and redoubtable gardeners
who, over the centuries, have grown and developed the gardens,
and the collections they contain.
Example Art/Artists: John Day, C.B. Durham |
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The
Tinwood Alliance Collection
512 Means Street , Suite 305
- Atlanta, GA 30318
The Tinwood Alliance produces
books, films and interactive products that bring to
light an American civilization few know. We specialize
in the unveiling of unique and original visual art forms.
Our work has been called "so profound it's subversive."
Example Artist:
Thorton Dial, Contemporary Art Quilts
from Alabama |
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Toledo
Museum of Art
2445
Monroe Street at Scottwood Avenue - Toledo, Ohio 43620,
USA
In the heart of the Midwest lies one
of the great Art Treasures of this continent. With more than
30,000 items, The Toledo Museum of Art houses several thousand of them on
a permanent basis in its 35 galleries. The Permanent Collection
includes a great diversity of works from African Artists
to Van Gogh, from Tibetan Sculptures to Degas, from Egyptian
Stucco to Matisse.
Example Artists: Van Gogh, Degas, Matisse,
Turner |
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University
of Vermont Fleming Museum
61 Colchester
Avenue, Burlington, Vermont 05405 USA
The Robert Hull Fleming Museum - a cultural treasure
prized by Vermonters and visitors for more than 70
years. The Fleming Museum is located on the campus
of the University of Vermont, which, chartered in 1791,
is one of the nation's oldest universities. When the
museum opened in 1931, it was hailed as "a
practical place of learning -- a vibrant, ongoing educational
institution for both children and adults." Today,
the museum houses Vermont's most comprehensive collection
of art and anthropology. It presents exhibitions of
contemporary and historic art from Vermont and around
the world.
Example Artists: Giles,
Heyde, Homer
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U.S.
Fish & Wildlife Service - Federal
Duck Stamp Office
Since beginning in 1934, the Federal Duck Stamp Program has become
one of the most popular and successful conservation programs ever
initiated. These wonderful images have provided habitat protection
for birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians. An estimated
one third of the nation's endangered and threatened species find
food or shelter in refuges preserved by Duck Stamp funds. The protected
wetlands also help dissipate storms, purify water supplies, store
flood water, and nourish fish hatchlings for sport and commercial
fishermen.
Example
Art/Artists: Duck
Stamp artwork |
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U.S.
Geological Survey
USGS
National Center - Reston, VA 20192, USA
Created by an act of Congress in 1879, the USGS has evolved over
the ensuing 120 years, matching its talent and knowledge to the
progress of science and technology. Today, the USGS stands as the
sole science agency for the Department of the Interior. It is sought
out by thousands of partners and customers for its natural science
expertise and its vast earth and biological data holdings. The
USGS is the science provider of choice in accessing the information
and helping resolve natural resource problems across the Nation
and around the world.
Example
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The
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan
Avenue - Chicago, Illinois 60603
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded
in 1879, comprises both a museum and a school. The original,
core beaux-arts building was built in 1893 to be used as an
auxiliary meeting place for the World's Columbian Exposition
and to become the permanent home of the Art Institute. The
museum houses more than 300,000 works of art within its
10 curatorial departments. Among its great treasures
are the legendary artworks "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande
Jatte" -1884 by Georges Seurat, "American Gothic" by
Grant Wood, "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper and 33
paintings by Claude Monet.
Example Art/Artists: Hopper, Monet,
Rembrandt, Seurat, Wood |
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The
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
POB 71117 - Jerusalem, 91710
Israel
Founded in 1965, the Israel Museum
is the largest cultural institution in Israel and is ranked
among the leading Art and Archaeology museums in the world.
In just 40 years, the Museum has achieved world-class status
with a far-ranging collection of nearly 500,000 objects through
an unparalleled legacy of gifts and support from its circle
of patrons worldwide, thus establishing itself as a singularly
rich cultural resource for Israel, the Middle East and the
world. The Museum’s collections
range from Prehistoric Archaeology through Contemporary
Art, including the most extensive holdings of the world's
pre-eminent collection of the Archaeology of the Holy Land,
the world's most comprehensive collections of Judaica and
the Ethnology of the Jewish people around the world, and
fine art holdings from Old Masters in European Art. Within
the campus of the Museum is the Shrine of the Book, home
to the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient manuscripts discovered between
1947 and 1956 on the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea,
whose discovery represents a turning point in the study of
the history of the Jewish and Christian people in ancient
times, for never before has a literary treasure of such magnitude
come to light.
Example
Art/Artists: Historical
Manuscripts, Bouguereau, Cezanne,
Gauguin, Rembrandt, Rubin |
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The
Quilts of Gee's Bend
Gee’s Bend is
a small rural community nestled into a curve
in the Alabama River southwest of Selma, Alabama.
The town’s women developed
a distinctive, bold, and sophisticated quilting
style based on traditional American (and African
American) quilts, but with a geometric simplicity
reminiscent of Amish quilts and modern art. The "Quilts
of Gee’s Bend" exhibition
has received tremendous international acclaim,
beginning at its showing in Houston, then at
the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
and the other museums on its twelve-city American
tour. Newsweek, National Public Radio’s
Talk of the Nation, Art in America, CBS News
Sunday Morning, PBS’s NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer, the Martha Stewart Living television
show, House and Garden, Oprah’s O magazine,
and Country Home magazine are among the hundreds
of print and broadcast media organizations that
have celebrated the quilts and the history of
this unique town.
Example Art/Artists: Images
of traditional American and African American Quilts |
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The
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
224
Benefit Street - Providence, RI 02903
The
RISD Museum traces the history
of art from antiquity to
the present through its collection
of more than 85,000 works
of art in all media and from all cultures. Works of Art range
from ancient Greek and Roman sculpture to French Impressionist
paintings, from Chinese stone and terracotta sculpture to contemporary
art in every medium.
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Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts
200 N. Boulevard - Richmond, Virginia USA 23220-4007
The Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts houses a remarkable permanent collection of more
than twenty thousand works of art from almost every
major world culture. The museum’s collection
of South Asian, Himalayan, and African art is among
the finest in the nation.
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Yale
University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
Welcome to the Yale
University Art Gallery, the oldest college
art museum in the western hemisphere. The
Art Gallery was founded in 1832, when Yale
College received over one hundred history
paintings and portraits by and from the patriot-artist
John Trumbull, and the Trumbull Gallery was
built to house them. Since then the
collections have grown to number more than
eighty-five thousand objects from around
the world, dating from ancient Egyptian times
to the present.
Example Art/Artists:
Hopper, Marsh, Picasso, Van Gogh |
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