Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1930 and is American and regional art, as well as prints of old masters and decorative art.

History

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1930 under the name Alabama Society of Fine Arts from local artists and patrons. By 1959, the museum in the old building of the Lawrence Street School was housed in downtown Montgomery. From this point on, the museum shared a building with the City - County Public Library. It was done privately by the Alabama Society of Fina Arts and was based primarily on membership dues and private donations. In 1960, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts was taken over by the city and a Department of Education established that primarily offers programs and activities for children. The museum structured in 1971, to its collection, which included archaeological and historical objects to the point and focused on works of art.

Since 1983, the Montgomery County takes over some of the costs. In 1988, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the building again. The city and the museum had raised over six million dollars to build and collected donations, so that the new museum building in the Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park was created. It was opened on 18 September 1988.

Collection

Examples of works of art of the Department of American Art are landscapes of Thomas Moran and Frederic Edwin Church, as well as portraits of the colonial era of Charles Willson Peale and John Singleton Copley. In addition, visitors can see modern works of art by artists such as Stuart Davis and Edward Hopper. Many of these works of art come from a donation by Winton M. Blount. The print collection of Old Master goes back to a donation from Adolph Weil Jr.. It includes works from the 15th to the 19th century and works by artists such as Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Dürer, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Francisco de Goya and James McNeill Whistler. The museum also has some prints by Rembrandt van Rijn. Examples of decorative art are Chinese porcelain and European glassware.