Fralin Museum of Art
The Fralin Museum of Art (until 2012: University of Virginia Art Museum ) is an art museum of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in the middle of the state of Virginia in the USA , which has existed since 1935 .
history
The museum was established in 1935 in a new building designed for its own purposes, which also housed the collections, memorabilia and documents relating to President Thomas Jefferson, which had been kept by the university until then . The museum was closed during World War II and again in the 1960s when the Faculty of Architecture took advantage of the rooms. Since the reopening under the wing of the University's Art Faculty and the appointment of a full-time curator, the museum has expanded through donations, acquisitions and loans. In 2009 the exhibition and teaching areas were completely renovated.
In 2012, the couple Cynthia and W. Heywood Fralin donated their collection of American art to the museum. In the same year, the museum was renamed the Fralin Museum of Art by resolution of its board of directors in honor of the donors .
Collection areas
The focus of the museum's collections is on paintings from the last three centuries, both from America and Europe, photography from the very beginning and East and South Asian painting. In addition, there are art and artifacts from Africa, from the pre-Columbian era, as well as the natives of North America. The museum has one of the most important collections of Aboriginal art outside of Australia .
Exhibitions
- 2001: Sean Henry : Ben (Ideas Unresolved) , bronze, oil paint, 49 × 19 × 16. Acquired in 2002.
- 2013: Émilie Charmy .
- 2014: Jasper Johns : Early Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation .
- 2015: Lucian Freud . Etchings.
- 2016: Richard Serra : Prints
See also
Web links
- Official website (English)
Coordinates: 38 ° 2 ′ 17.7 ″ N , 78 ° 30 ′ 11 ″ W.