Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art, in front of it the sculpture Ave by Mark di Suvero

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum in downtown Dallas , Texas . It is located in what is known as the Art District along the Woodall Rogers Freeway, between St. Paul and Harwood Streets. The architect Edward Larrabee Barnes designed the museum building, which opened in 1984.

The collection includes more than 24,000 objects ranging from the 3rd millennium BC to the present day. The museum also offers teaching programs and has the Mildred R. and Frederick M. Mayer Library , a specialist library with more than 50,000 volumes.

history

The Icebergs by Frederic Edwin Church (1861), Dallas Museum of Art

The history of the Dallas Museum of Art began with the establishment of the Art Committee of the Dallas Public Library. At the suggestion of the Texan artist Frank Reaugh, a first exhibition of works of art took place in a room in the library in 1902. For this exhibition, the committee purchased the painting September Moonrise by Childe Hassam one of the first works for a private collection. In the following year, a group of 50 art-interested citizens from Dallas founded the Dallas Art Association. This art association continued to exhibit at the Dallas Public Library until 1909, before opening its first own building, the Free Public Art Gallery of Dallas in Fair Park. In 1929 the art collection temporarily moved to the Majestic Theater. After the institution renamed the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (DMFA) in 1933, it was able to move into a new building in Fair Park in 1936, which is now used by the Museum of Nature & Science.

In 1943 Jerry Bywaters became the director of DMFA, who held the position for 21 years. Under his direction, the museum collected Impressionist, abstract and contemporary masterpieces. In addition, he set a regional focus in the museum collection with works by Alexander Hogue, Olin Hernan Travis and other Texan artists. In 1963, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts merged with the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts (DMCA). In 1984 it was renamed the Dallas Museum of Art and the current museum building opened, which has since been expanded several times.

The Fox in the Snow , by Gustave Courbet (1860), Dallas Museum of Art

Collections

The museum's collections include more than 24,000 works of art from around the world. They date from ancient times to modern times.

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  Water Lilies by Claude Monet , 1908, Dallas Museum of Art
  The DMA Ancient Art Collection includes Cycladic, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Apulian objects. One of the highlights of ancient Egyptian art is the painted limestone relief procession of the sacrifices from the Ny-Ank-Nesut tomb , which was created between 2757 and 2134 BC. The more extensive Greek collection consists of a marble figure of a man from a funeral relief (around 300 BC), as well as bronze sculptures, decorative objects and gold jewelry. Roman art is represented by the figure of a woman (2nd century) and a marble sarcophagus (around 190 AD) with a battle scene.
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  Takenouchi no Sukune Meets the Dragon King of the Sea , Japanese, Meiji period , 1879–1881
  The collection of South Asian art ranges from Buddhist art of the 2nd and 4th centuries to the art of the Mughal Empire . Highlights are the bronze sculpture of Shiva Nataraja from the 12th century and a sandstone sculpture of the deity Vishnu as the boar-headed Varaha (10th century). Other works of art in this department come from Tibet , Nepal and Thailand .
• Examples of the collection of European art from the 16th century are a multi-colored wooden sculpture of St. Sebastian ( Danube School , approx. 1520), as well as the paintings of St. Jerome in the Wilderness by Hendrik Bles , Ecce Homo by Giulio Cesare Procaccini and the Bacchic Concert by Pietro Paolini . Eighteenth-century art includes works by artists such as Canaletto ( A Glance from Fondamenta Nuova , 1772), Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre ( The Abduction of Europe , 1750), and Claude-Joseph Vernet ( Mountain Landscape with an Rising Storm , 1775). The collection from the 19th and 20th centuries shows works by Max Liebermann (In the swimming pool , 1875–1877), Ferdinand Hodler ( Der Halberdier , 1895), Gustave Courbet ( The fox in the snow , 1860), Constantin Brancusi ( The beginning of the world , 1920) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , ( Four wooden figures , 1912). By Piet Mondrian , the museum owns windmill (1908), Self-Portrait (1942) and Place de la Concorde (1938-1943). An example of the handicrafts in the collection is Carl Otto Czeschka's Wittgenstein showcase from the Wiener Werkstätte . It was shown for the first time at the Kunstschau Wien in 1908 , where it was bought by Karl Wittgenstein and has been on public display again at the DMA for the first time since 2014.
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  Sheaves of Wheat , by Vincent van Gogh (1890), Dallas Museum of Art

The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection is a 1985 gift from Wendy Reves in honor of her late husband, Emery Reves . The collection comes from the couple's 1,400 m² house in France , Villa La Pausa, which Coco Chanel had previously lived in. Some rooms of the house were reconstructed in the museum and now contain the original equipment with furniture, Chinese porcelain, oriental carpets and other handicrafts, as well as the art collection with 1,400 pictures and sculptures.

The Masseuse , by Edgar Degas (between 1896 and 1911)

Works by Paul Cézanne , Honoré Daumier , Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin , Édouard Manet , Claude Monet , Camille Pissarro , Auguste Renoir , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh can be seen . There are also personal memorabilia and letters from Winston Churchill , with whom Wendy and Emery Reves had a long friendship.

• The extensive collection of African art includes objects from West and Central Africa . Most of them date from the 16th to the 20th century. The oldest object is a Nok terracotta bust from Nigeria (between around 200 BC and 200 AD). Some pieces are status symbols, others show symbols of life. The most valuable objects are a wooden plaque covered with a copper alloy with the image of a chief and a figure from the Kingdom of the Congo studded with nails or blades.
• Another focus of the museum collection is the department for ancient American art. The collection spans more than three millennia, with terracotta sculptures and golden objects from Panama , Colombia and Peru . One of the highlights of the collection is the head of the deity Tlaloc ( Mexico , 14-16th centuries).

Mask , Mexico, Veracruz , 900-500 BC

• The American Art Collection features paintings, sculptures, and prints from the United States , Mexico, and Canada . They date from colonial times to World War II . Some of the highlights include Duck Island (1906) by Childe Hassam , Lighthouse Hill (1927) by Edward Hopper , That Gentleman (1960) by Andrew Wyeth , Bare Tree Trunks with Snow by Georgia O'Keeffe , and Razor and Watch (1924-1925 ) by Gerald Murphy . The DMA also owns works by Texan artists such as Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, Julian Onderdonk, Alexandre Hogue, David Bates, Dorothy Austin, Michael Owen and Olin Herman Travis.
• In the contemporary art department almost all important artistic trends since 1945 are represented. These include abstract expressionism , pop art , op art , as well as works from minimalism and conceptualism to installations and video art . Contemporary artists in the collection include Jackson Pollock , Mark Rothko , Franz Kline , Jasper Johns , Sigmar Polke , Josef Albers , Bruce Nauman, and Robert Smithson . The photographic collections include artists such as Cindy Sherman , Nic Nicosia , Thomas Struth, and Lynn Davis. When the current building opened in the mid-1980s, the museum acquired works by artists such as Ellsworth Kelly , Sol Lewitt , and Richard Fleischner . In recent years the museum has started collecting the works of contemporary German artists such as Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer and Sigmar Polke.

Events

The Center for Creative Connections

In 2008 the DMA opened the Center for Creative Connections (C3 for short). It is a center for interactive learning on 1,100 square meters and offers exhibitions of the museum collections. There is also an artist workshop, Arturo's Nest, a theater and the high-tech lab.

The DMA offers the following events:

• Late Nights: Once a month the museum is open until midnight for concerts, performances, lectures, films, tours, and family programs.
• Arts and Letters Live: A series of lectures with famous authors, actors, illustrators and musicians.
• Jazz under the Stars: a popular series of jazz concerts on the lawn in front of the museum.
• Thursday Night Live: Every Thursday the museum stays open until 9 p.m. There are jazz concerts, dinners and drinks in the café, as well as meetings with artists in the Center for Creative Connections.

literature

• The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection. Dallas Museum of Art 1985, hardcover, ISBN 0-9609622-8-X and paperback ISBN 0-9609622-9-8
• Richard R. Brettell: Impressionist Paintings Drawings and Sculpture: From the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection. Dallas Museum of Art 1995, ISBN 0-936227-15-X
• Charles L. Venable: Decorative Arts Highlights from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection , Dallas Museum of Art, October 1, 1995
• Suzanne Kotz: Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection. Dallas Museum of Art 1997, ISBN 0-936227-22-2
• Dorothy M. Kosinski: Dallas Museum of Art, 100 Years. Dallas Museum of Art 2003, ISBN 0-936227-28-1
• Kevin W. Tucker, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Fran Baas: The Wittgenstein-Vitrine - Modern Opulence in Vienna , New Haven and London, 2016

Web links

• Official website

Commons : Dallas Museum of Art  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.thedallasartsdistrict.org/
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5. ↑ http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fby14
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8. ↑ `` Dallas Museum of Art, A Guide to the Collection '' Managing Editor: Debra Wittrup (1997)
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10. ↑ http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2001/08/20/29010.html
11. ↑ http://www.dma.org/press-release/wittgenstein-silver-cabinet-vienna-workshops-recently-acquired-dallas-museum-art
12. ↑ [2]
13. ^ “The Wendy and Emery Reeves Collection”, Richard R. Bretell (1995)
14. ↑ http://www.jstor.org/pss/882521
15. ↑ Fast Forward: Exhibition Catalog. Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art , Edited by Maria de Corral and John R. Lane, 2007
16. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ http://www.dma.org/art/exhibitions/modern-opulence-vienna-wittgenstein-vitrine

Coordinates: 32 ° 47 '14.5 "  N , 96 ° 48' 2.8"  W.