San Diego Museum of Art

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The San Diego Museum of Art

The San Diego Museum of Art is an art museum in San Diego . It was founded in 1922 and received a museum building designed by William Templeton Johnson . The collection is divided into American Art, European Art, Asian Art and Contemporary Art.

history

The museum was set up in 1922 at the instigation of the businessman Appleton S. Bridges to allow a permanent exhibition of an art collection. The architect William Templeton Johnson was hired to design a museum building . Construction began in 1924 and lasted until 1926. During this time, the Fine Arts Society was founded in 1925 to support the museum. Reginald Poland was appointed as the first director . On February 28, 1926, the museum was opened under the name Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego . In the same year the city took over possession of the museum building. During the 1936 California-Pacific International Exposition , held at Balboa Park , the museum's name was temporarily changed to the San Diego Palace of Fine Arts . The museum was closed from 1943 to 1947 and housed a department of a United States Navy hospital .

The museum was expanded in the 1960s and 70s. In 1966 the west wing opened, doubling the exhibition area. In 1974 the new east wing was opened. The museum's name was changed in 1978 by the Board of Trustees from the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego to the San Diego Museum of Art . It still bears this name today. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the museum's collection was expanded through large donations. The Baldwin M. Baldwin Foundation donated the works of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 1988 , Edwin Binney the Third in 1990 a collection of 1,500 objects of South Asian art and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in 1991 a collection of contemporary Californian art. In 1994 the Interactive Multi-Media Art Gallery Explorer was opened.

In 2000, the building was renovated while normal operations continued. The following year, on the occasion of the museum's 75th anniversary, a new gallery was opened dedicated to contemporary regional art.

collection

In addition to works of art, the collection also includes scientific exhibits from the period from 5000 BC to the present day. The painting collection has a focus on Spanish painting. The collection includes works by Francisco de Zurbarán , El Greco , Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Luiz Ribera . This focus lies in the donation by Anne R. and Amy Putnam at the beginning of the 1940s. The collection of Italian painting with works by Giotto di Bondone , Giorgione , Paolo Veronese , Giambattista Pittoni , Canaletto , Bernardino Luini and Giovanni Antonio Guardi also goes back to this . There are also works by artists such as Frans Hals , Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis van Dyck . Over time, works from the Barbizon School , Impressionism and modern and contemporary artists such as Amedeo Modigliani , Henri Matisse , Max Beckmann , Salvador Dalí and René Magritte came .

  • Giambattista Pittoni:
    The vision of St. Anthony of Padua

  • Claude Monet:
    Haystack at Chailly

  • Thomas Eakins:
    Elizabeth Crowell with a Dog

  • William Merritt Chase:
    The Chase Homestaead Shinnecock

  • Guy Rose:
    Late Afternoon, Giverny

Another area of ​​the collection is American art . Artists such as William Merritt Chase , George Inness , Asher Brown Durand , Thomas Eakins , Guy Rose and Mary Cassatt are represented with pictures in the collection. The collection also includes works by contemporary Californian artists. Latin American art has also been increasingly acquired in recent years. The Asian art collection includes 4,000 objects, including Buddhist sculptures from India, Japan, China and South Asia, jade , ceramic and bronze objects from China and woodcuts from Japan. The collection of South Asian paintings is the largest outside of India.

Special exhibitions

The museum shows changing special exhibitions, some of which relate to aspects of the museum collection. The most successful exhibition was held in 1989 with a show of Fabergé eggs . Examples of further exhibitions are Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota , Mexico: Promise and Possibility, 1829–1834 about your influence of the German painter Carl Nebel on Mexican art or Emerging Elites: Indo-Muslim Art in Transition .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the collection on sdmart.org, accessed on November 5, 2008 ( Memento from January 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Timeline for the history of the museum on sdmart.org, accessed on November 5, 2008 ( Memento from March 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • San Diego Museum of Art: Selected Works . San Diego Museum of Art, 2003. ISBN 978-0-937108-32-1
  • Nora Desloge: Toulouse-Lautrec: The Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection, San Diego Museum of Art . University of Washington Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-295-96863-6
  • Yu Sung: San Diego Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection of Chinese Art . Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. ISBN 978-0-937108-23-9

Web links

Commons : San Diego Museum of Art  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Coordinates: 32 ° 43 ′ 56 ″  N , 117 ° 9 ′ 1.7 ″  W.