Fralin Museum of Art

The Fralin Museum of Art (until 2012: University of Virginia Art Museum) is an existing since 1935, Art Museum of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in the middle of the state of Virginia in the United States.

History

The museum was founded in 1935 decorated in a designed for its purpose in which new and previously held by the university collections and memorabilia and documents relating to the President Thomas Jefferson were housed. The museum was closed again during World War II and into the 1960s, when the Faculty of Architecture used the rooms. Since the re-opening under the wing of the Faculty of Arts of the University and the establishment of a full-time curator, the museum expanded through donations, purchases and loans. 2009 was a major renovation of the exhibition and teaching areas.

2012 abandoned the couple and Cynthia W. Heywood Fralin the Museum its collection of American art. The museum was renamed by resolution of its Board in honor of the founder in the same year in Fralin Museum of Art.

Collection areas

Priorities within the collections of the museum are the paintings from the last three centuries both from America and from Europe, photography since its beginning and Eastern and South Asian painting. There are also art and artifacts from Africa, pre-Columbian, and Native American. The museum has one of the most important collections of Aboriginal art outside Australia.

Exhibitions

• 2001: Sean Henry: Ben ( Ideas Unresolved ), bronze, oil paint, 49 × 19 × 16 Purchase 2002.
• 2013: Émilie Charmy.
• 2014: Jasper Johns: Early Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.