Columbus Museum of Art
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Former name | Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts |
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Established | 1878 |
Location |
480 E. Broad Street Columbus, Ohio 43215 USA |
Coordinates | 39°57′51″N 82°59′16″W / 39.96417°N 82.98778°WCoordinates: 39°57′51″N 82°59′16″W / 39.96417°N 82.98778°W |
Type | Art museum |
Executive director | Nannette V. Maciejunes |
Website |
www |
The Columbus Museum of Art is an art museum located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio. The museum is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting American and European modern art and contemporary art along with folk art, glass art, and photography. In 2011, the Museum opened The Center for Creativity, an 18,000 sq ft (1,700 m2) space that includes galleries, gathering areas, and places for workshops that allow visitors to engage in hands-on activities. In 2013, the Museum was awarded the National Medal, the Nation’s highest honor for museums, from the Institute of Library and Museum Services.
Building
Its original building was the Sessions Mansion. It was replaced on the same site by the current building, which opened on January 22, 1931. It was designed by Columbus architects Richards, McCarty and Bulford. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1992, under its original name.[1]
The museum launched a massive reconstruction and expansion in 2007. The first phase opened January 1, 2011, after 13-months of construction. On October 25, 2015, the new Margaret M. Walter wing was opened to the public, adding 50,000 square feet to the Museum.[2]
Center for Creativity
The JPMorgan Chase Center for Creativity is a hub for creativity on the first floor of the museum, which includes Creativity Lounge, The Studio, The Wonder Room, Big Idea Gallery, and Open Gallery.
Collections
The permanent collection includes outstanding late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American and European modern works of art. Major collections include the Ferdinand Howald Collection of early Modernist paintings, the Sirak Collection of Impressionist and Expressionist works, The Photo League Collection, and the Philip and Suzanne Schiller Collection of American Social Commentary Art. The Museum houses the world’s largest collections of works by Columbus born artists Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Elijah Pierce, and George Bellows.
Highlights include early Cubist paintings by Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, works by François Boucher, Paul Cézanne, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Edward Hopper, and Norman Rockwell, and installations by Mel Chin, Josiah Mcelheny, Susan Philipsz, and Allan Sekula.
Selections from the permanent collection
- Anthony van Dyck, Christian Bruce, 1635
- Artemisia Gentileschi, David and Bathsheba, c. 1610-1675
- Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Varvara Naryshkina, 1800
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Raphael and the Baker's Daughter, 1840
- Camille Corot, The Little Bird Nesters, 1873
- Rosa Bonheur, The Coal Carriers, 1851
- Winslow Homer, Haymaking, 1864
- Albert Bierstadt, Landscape, c. 1867-1869
- William Michael Harnett, After the Hunt, 1883
- Paul Cézanne, Victor Chocquet, 1877
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Madame Henriot 'en travesti' (The Page), 1875–76
- Mary Cassatt, Susan Comforting the Baby No. 1, c. 1881
- Mary Cassatt
Portrait of a Young Woman, Pastel on paper, 1898 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Christine Lerolle Embroidering, c. 1895
- Claude Monet, The Mediterranean (Cap d'Antibes), 1888
- Claude Monet, Weeping Willow, 1918
- Henri Rousseau, Tiger Hunt, c. 1895
- George Bellows, Polo at Lakewood, Oil on canvas, 1910
- George Wesley Bellows, Riverfront No. 1, 1915
- Rockwell Kent, Men and Mountains
- William Glackens, Beach Scene, New London," 1918
- Juan Gris, Glass of Beer and Playing Cards, 1914
- Pablo Picasso, Nature morte au compotier (Still Life with Compote and Glass), oil on canvas, 1914–15
- Robert Delaunay, Portuguese Woman, Oil on canvas, 1916
- Edward Middleton Manigault - The Rocket, (1909)
- Edward Middleton Manigault, The Clown, 1912
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Girl Asleep
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Tower Room, Fehmarn, 1913
- Marsden Hartley, Cosmos, Oil on Canvas, 1908-1909
- Marsden Hartley, Pre-War Pageant, 1914
- Marsden Hartley, Berlin Ante War, 1914
- Marsden Hartley, New Mexico Recollections
- Charles Sheeler, Lhasa, 1916
- Jacques Villon, Portrait de M. J. B. peintre (Jacques Bon), 1914
- Arthur Dove, Movement No. 1, 1911
- Arthur Garfield Dove, Thunderstorm, 1921
- Charles Burchfield, Twilight Moon, 1916
- Charles Demuth, The Circus, 1917
- Charles Demuth, The Tower, 1920
- Charles Demuth, Incense of a New Church
- Charles Demuth, Paquebot Paris, 1921-22
- Elie Nadelman, Host, c. 1920-23
References
- ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ Gilson, Nancy (31 August 2015). "Columbus Museum of Art names new wing in honor of benefactors | The Columbus Dispatch". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Columbus Museum of Art. |
- Columbus Museum of Art official site
- Columbus Museum of Art: "Art and Social Issues". In May 2005 the Columbus Museum of Art acquired the Philip J. and Suzanne Schiller Collection which chronicles art through social commentary from 1930–1970s. This section of their website provides images, descriptions, artist biographies, and resources to teachers and students.
- Columbus Museum of Art YouTube channel