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Blanton Museum of Art

Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art
Former name	University Fine art Museum, Archer Chiliad. Huntington Art Gallery
Established	1963 (1963)
Location	Austin, Texas
Coordinates	30°sixteen′52″North 97°44′15″Due west  /  30.28100°N 97.73747°W  / thirty.28100; -97.73747 Coordinates: 30°16′52″North 97°44′fifteen″Due west  /  thirty.28100°Due north 97.73747°Westward  / xxx.28100; -97.73747
Type	Fine art museum
Accreditation	American Brotherhood of Museums
Collections	One-time Main paintings, prints, drawings, Minimalism, Post-minimalism, Conceptual art, Latin American art, Western American Fine art, Antiquities
Collection size	21,000
Visitors	200,000 (2019)
Manager	Simone Wicha
Website	www.blantonmuseum.org

The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Fine art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent drove galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, store, and cafe. The Blanton's permanent drove consists of more than 21,000 works, with pregnant holdings of modern and contemporary art, Latin American fine art, Old Master paintings, and prints and drawings from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.

History [edit]

The museum was founded in 1963 as the Academy Art Museum on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The University Art Museum was initially housed in the Art Department of the University of Texas (though supervision of the museum was subsequently moved to the Office of the Provost) and was founded through the proceeds from the sale of land donated by Archer M. Huntington. This land was donated with the stipulation that information technology be used to support an fine art museum at the University. In 1964, Donald Goodall became the museum's showtime director.^[1]

By 1972, a portion of the museum's collection was housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Center, while the print report room and temporary exhibition galleries remained at the Art Department. In 1979, Eric S. McCready became the museum's 2nd managing director, and the museum was renamed the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery shortly thereafter.^[2]

In 1993, Jessie Otto Hite became the museum's 3rd managing director. In 1994, Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, married woman of novelist James Michener, gifted $5 million for the structure of a new museum complex, which would exist the first defended space for the museum's permanent collection since its founding. The campaign to build a new building began in 1997 with a $12 one thousand thousand souvenir from the Houston Endowment, Inc. in honor of its then-chairman, Jack S. Blanton. The museum was renamed the Blanton Museum of Art, with structure on the new building commencing in 2003.^[three]

Although the museum was congenital as designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Woods Architects, they were not the showtime architectural firm hired for the project. The notable Swiss-based architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron had originally been commissioned for the project, merely resigned the commission in 1999 due to differences in their pattern and the wishes of the Board of Regents regarding the university's Campus Master Plan. Lawrence Speck, disappointed in the series of events that led to Herzog & de Meuron'southward resignation, resigned as dean of the School of Architecture, although he remains a faculty fellow member.^[4]

The new gallery building, named the Mari and James A. Michener Gallery Edifice, opened to the public with a 24-hour marathon celebration in 2006.^[5] A second education and assistants building (the Edgar A. Smith Building), totaling 56,000 square anxiety, opened in 2008. In 2009, Ned Rifkin was named to supervene upon the retiring Jessie Otto Hite as director.^[half-dozen] In 2011, Simone Wicha was named manager.^[7]

The Blanton Museum is currently preparing for a major outside transformation of its grounds and plaza designed by Snøhetta.^[eight] That effort was significantly aided by the surprise declaration, at a February 2019 gala past museum director Simone Wicha, that the museum would receive a $xx million gift from The Moody Foundation, to fund the project and continued complimentary admission on Thursdays.^[9]

Collections [edit]

The Blanton's permanent collection of more than 21,000 works is recognized for its European paintings, prints and drawings, and modern and gimmicky American and Latin American fine art.^[x]

European art earlier 1900 [edit]

The collection of European paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts before 1900 includes the Suida-Manning Drove of over 275 works, with paintings past Parmigianino, Paolo Veronese, Tiepolo, Rubens, Claude Lorrain, and Simon Vouet, along with many other European artists from the 15th through 18th centuries.^[11] The collection also includes works by lesser-known, but still historically significant, painters such as Daniele Crespi and Luca Cambiaso.^[12] While the Suida-Manning Collection predominantly showcases Italian and French artists, eighteenth-century English painting is represented by a grouping of portraits bequeathed past Jack Grand. Taylor, including George Romney'due south Lady Hamilton (1791).

The Blanton owns a collection of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman vases, the earliest of which date to the 6th century BCE. Many came from the Castle Ashby Collection formed by the Spencer Compton, second Marquess of Northampton, who funded numerous excavations at Vulci, an Etruscan town north of Rome, during the 1820s.^[13]

Modernistic and contemporary art [edit]

Statues at the Blanton Museum of Fine art

The Blanton's modern and contemporary art holdings comprise more than four,000 objects.^[14] Novelist James Michener, and his married woman, Mari Michener, began giving their collection of 20th-century American paintings to the Blanton in the 1960s. The gift spanned into the early on 1990s and eventually totaled more than 300 works. The Micheners also gave acquisition funds to the museum, supporting the buy of approximately 75 additional paintings.^[15]

The museum's collection includes 20th-century artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Alice Neel, and Brice Marden.^[15] The Blanton's collection of contemporary art also includes works by El Anatsui, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Natalie Frank, Nina Katchadourian, Byron Kim, Yayoi Kusama, Glenn Ligon, Donald Moffett, Susan Philipsz, and Tavares Strachan. In 2009, Stacked Waters, an installation by creative person Teresita Fernández commissioned by Jeanne and Michael Klein, debuted in the Rapoport Atrium of the Blanton Museum. In 2014, the Blanton acquired an important group of drawings, prints, and a major painting by the African-American artist Charles White from Drs. Susan One thousand. and Edmund W. Gordon.^{[16] [17]}

Latin American art [edit]

Soon after his date as founding manager of the University of Texas Art Museum in Austin in 1959, Donald Goodall caused for the Blanton what was at that fourth dimension the largest drove of Latin American art in the United States.^[1] The Latin American collection expanded significantly in the 1970s and 1980s with gifts from collector Barbara Duncan of 277 works of fine art, including 58 paintings and 112 drawings.^[18] The museum was the first institution in the United States to create a curatorial position for Latin American art in 1988. The founding curator of the department was Mari Carmen Ramírez who caused one of the signature works in the Latin American collection, Cildo Meireles' Missão/Missões: How to Build Cathedrals (1987).^[19] The museum received a notable improver of Latin American modernistic and midcentury Latin American art from collectors Judy and Charles Tate in 2015. The 114-object collection includes paintings, sculptures, and drawings by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Tarsila do Amaral, Rufino Tamayo, Joaquín Torres García, Wifredo Lam, Armando Reveron, Jesus Rafael Soto, and Lygia Clark, amidst others.^{[xx] [21]}

The Julia Matthews Wilkinson Center for Prints and Drawings [edit]

The Julia Matthews Wilkinson Center for Prints and Drawings houses most of the Blanton's 16,000 works on paper. The Center also includes the H.E.B. impress study room, a library, and curatorial offices. The Center's holdings reflect the Blanton's l-yr focus on three specific collecting areas: European art from 1450-1800, Latin American art subsequently 1960, and American art of the 20th century.

The Wilkinson Heart'south holdings include over 380 drawings from the Suida-Manning Collection, which are mostly pre-1800 Italian, including drawings by Raphael, Correggio, and Guercino.^[22] Also representing European art from this catamenia is the Leo Steinberg Drove of near 3,500 prints, including early on impressions by Hendrick Goltzius, Claude Lorrain, and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione.^[23] The Eye'southward holdings in gimmicky Latin American fine art feature several thousand works from eighteen Latin American countries and includes 230 works on paper from the Barbara Duncan Collection of Latin American Art.^[18] Prints and drawings by American artists since 1900 comprise well-nigh 20-5 percent of the Blanton's holdings on paper. Julia and Stephen Wilkinson and their Still Water Foundation gave over 1030 prints, primarily wood engravings from the commencement half of the 20th century tied to the tradition of social realism. Amidst them are 757 prints by Clare Leighton, best known for her images of rural workers.^[24]

Western American art [edit]

The C.R. Smith Collection of Western American Art is a collection of 91 works given to the Blanton between 1968 and 1988. The collection includes works by Oscar East. Berninghaus, Albert Bierstadt, Solon H. Borglum, Dean Cornwell, Maynard Dixon, Henry Farny, Thomas Hill, Ransome Gillett Holdridge, Peter Hurd, Frank Tenney Johnson, Tom Lea, William Robinson Leigh, Alfred Jacob Miller, and Thomas Moran.^[25]

Ellsworth Kelly's Austin [edit]

In January 2015, the artist Ellsworth Kelly gave the Blanton the design concept for a 2,715-square-foot (252.two m²) rock building that he later on named Austin.^[26] This work of art relates to the tradition of modernist creative person-commissioned buildings that includes Rothko Chapel and Henri Matisse's Matisse Chapel. Kelly said that the design of the building was inspired by Romanesque and Byzantine art he studied while in Paris on the G.I. Bill. Following Kelly'due south gift, the Blanton launched a $15 million campaign to realize the project.^[27] Austin opened February 18, 2018, with a ceremony featuring Academy of Texas at Austin President Greg Fenves, Austin Mayor Steve Adler, and museum director Simone Wicha.

SoundSpace [edit]

SoundSpace is a hybrid performance series that takes identify at the Blanton three times per year. The series features simultaneous, interdisciplinary performances throughout the museum and has received awards from the Austin Critic's Table,^[28] the Austin Chronicle,^[29] and profiled at the almanac SXSW Festival. SoundSpace has featured Graham Reynolds, Adrian Quesada, Thor Harris, and Panoramic Voices, among others. The serial is directed by Austin artist Steve Parker^[30] and underwritten by local arts patron Mike Chesser.^[31]

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Oliver, Myrna (1997-x-31). "Donald Goodall; Art Educator, Museum Official". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2015-02-27 .
2. ^ Blanton Museum of Fine art: guide to the collection. Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Larry R. Faulkner (eds.). Austin, Tex: Univ. of Texas Press. 2006. ISBN9780977145324. {{cite volume}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
3. ^ "Academy of Texas benefactor Jack S. Blanton dies at 86". Archived from the original on 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2015-07-09 .
4. ^ "Lawrence Speck resigns every bit dean of the UT Austin School of Architecture | News". Utexas.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2012-05-23 .
5. ^ Galbraith, Kate (2006-04-29). "Austin Prepares a Welcome for a Texas-Size Museum". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-03-06 .
6. ^ "Ned Rifkin Appointed Managing director of the Blanton Museum of Art". utexas.edu. 8 May 2009. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved xi April 2018.
7. ^ Graupmann, Michael (2011-08-09). "'A curator of people': A conversation with Blanton Director Simone Wicha - 2011-Aug-nineteen". CultureMap Austin . Retrieved 2015-02-27 .
8. ^ "Snøhetta Introduces New Transformative Architectural and Mural Features to Austin's Blanton Museum of Art". Curvation Daily. 14 January 2021. Retrieved v May 2021.
9. ^ "$20M gift to pay for major changes at Blanton Museum". Austin Business concern Periodical. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
10. ^ "Blanton Museum Receives $250,000 Gift from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation". Michael & Susan Dell Foundation . Retrieved 2015-05-26 .
11. ^ Dobrzynski, Judith H. (1998-eleven-12). "Art Museum In Texas Gets Trove Of 700 Works". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-02-27 .
12. ^ Ennis, Michael (1999-04-01). "Master Class". Texas Monthly . Retrieved 2015-06-22 .
13. ^ "Academy of Texas Art Museum Aboriginal Greek Vase Acquisition". University of Texas at Austin News & Information Service. 1980-07-08.
14. ^ Carlozzi, Annette DiMeo; Baum, Kelly (2006). Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900. Austin, TX: Blanton Museum of Fine art.
15. ^ ^{a b} Griffith, Vivé (2002). "Imagining the Past, Investing in the Future: Historical novelist james A. Michener's legacy creates new possibilities for artists and writers". The University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on 2015-07-22.
16. ^ Ghorashi, Hannah (2015-05-15). "UT Austin Receives Significant Collection of Works past WPA Artist Charles White". Fine art News.
17. ^ Brownlee, Andrea Barnwell; White, Charles (2002). Charles White . David C. Driskell series of African American art. San Francisco: Pomegranate. ISBN0764921290.
18. ^ ^{a b} Cotter, Kingdom of the netherlands (2003-04-04). "Barbara Duncan, 82, an Fine art Historian". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-06-22 .
19. ^ Lubow, Arthur (2008-03-23). "After Frida". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-06-22 .
20. ^ Glentzer, Molly. "Houston couple donates major art drove to UT". Houston Chronicle . Retrieved 2015-06-22 .
21. ^ The Judy and Charles Tate Drove of Latin American Art: La línea continua. Blanton Museum of Fine art. 2014. ISBN9780981573809.
22. ^ Bober, Jonathan (2001). I grandi disegni italiani del Blanton Museum of Art dell'Università del Texas. Cinisello Balsamo (Milano): Silvana. ISBN8882154017.
23. ^ Ennis, Michael (2003-06-01). "Prints of a Fellow". Texas Monthly . Retrieved 2015-06-22 .
24. ^ Hickman, Caroline Mesrobian (2011). "Clare Leighton's Wood Engravings of English Country Life Between the Wars". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
25. ^ Saunders, Richard H. (1988). Collecting the West: the C.R. Smith Collection of western American fine art (1st ed.). Austin: Published for the Archer One thousand. Huntington Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, the University of Texas at Austin by the University of Texas Press. ISBN0292711123.
26. ^ Miller, M. h (2018-02-08). "Ellsworth Kelly'south Temple for Light". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-ten .
27. ^ Pogrebin, Robin (2015-02-05). "Texas Museum to Build Ellsworth Kelly Design". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-03-06 .
28. ^ Faires, Robert (May 25, 2012). "2012 Austin Critics Table Awards". www.austinchronicle.com . Retrieved 2020-05-12 .
29. ^ "SoundSpace at the Blanton". Austin'due south Blanton Museum of Art . Retrieved 2020-05-12 .
30. ^ "Best Composer off the Browbeaten Track: Steve Parker". www.austinchronicle.com . Retrieved 2020-05-12 .
31. ^ "SoundSpace at the Blanton". Austin's Blanton Museum of Art . Retrieved 2020-05-12 .

External links [edit]

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