Worcester Art Museum

inside view

Hunting mosaic from Antioch

Paul Gaugin: The Brooding Woman , 1891

The Worcester Art Museum is an art museum in Worcester , Massachusetts .

history

The museum was founded in 1896 by industrialist Stephen Salisbury III with a group of other citizens and opened in 1898. In 1901 the museum received over 3,000 Japanese prints from John Chandler Bancroft . With the help of the first professional director, Philip J. Gentner, the museum's collection became one of the most prestigious in the country.

Directors

• Philip J. Gentner (1908-1917)
• Raymond Henniker-Heaton (1918–1925)

• Francis Henry Taylor (1931-1940)
• Richard Stuart Teitz
• George Stout (1947-1954)
• Francis Henry Taylor (1954–1957)
• Daniel Catton Rich (1958-1970)

• Tom L. Freudenheim (1982-1986)
• James A. Welu (1986-2011)
• Matthias Waschek (since 2011)

Works

Today the museum houses over 35,000 works from different epochs and cultures from ancient to modern.

The antique collection houses several Roman mosaics from Antioch .

The most famous exhibits in the painting collection include works by El Greco , Rembrandt van Rijn, and The Brooding Woman (Te Faaturuma) by Paul Gauguin .

literature

• William James Hennessey (Ed.): A handbook to the Worcester Art Museum . Worcester Art Museum, Worcester 1973.
• Worcester Art Museum. Selected works . Worcester Art Museum, Worcester 1994.

Web links

Commons : Worcester Art Museum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Directors [1]
2. ↑ Lawrence Becker, Christine Kondoleon: The arts of Antioch. Art historical and scientific approaches to Roman mosaics and a catalog of the Worcester Art Museum Antioch Collection. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2005, ISBN 0-691-12232-6 ; Pictures at Wikimedia Commons .

Coordinates: 42 ° 16 '23.2 "  N , 71 ° 48' 7.2"  W.