Parrish Art Museum

The Parrish Art Museum is an art museum in Water Mill, New York east of New York City on Long Iceland.

History of the Museum

The foundations of the present museum was created in 1897 when the Quaker and successful lawyer Samuel Longstreth Parrish had built a building by architect Grosvenor Atterbury for its collections, which consisted of paintings of the Italian Renaissance and copies of sculptures of antiquity and the Renaissance. The museum was established on Long Iceland in Southampton Village east of the city limits of New York. After expansion of the museum in 1902 and 1913, the collection and the building were bequeathed by Parrish's death the municipality of Southampton Village.

By further bequests arrived since the 1950s works important American painters such as William Merritt Chase and Fairfield Porter in the possession of the museum. The new acquisitions, including works by artists of the New York School, a new building of the museum made ​​it necessary, the 2012 was opened to the public in the neighboring Water Mill.

The new building

As an extension to the old location in Southampton has not been possible, the Museum in 2005 about 4 km away from the old location, the land of a former nursery and a winery and wrote the new building from. Among the 65 participants in the contest, the design of the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron was able to prevail.

Due to the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, the plans of the architects had to be shortened for the new building. The since November 2012 used construction reminiscent in shape to a large barn. It is home to the west, the reception rooms including museum store and museum cafes, the showrooms in two parallel sections in the center and the administration in the East. The illuminated by sunlight showrooms include about 700 m² of exhibition space for the permanent exhibition and about 420 m² space for temporary exhibitions.

The coordinates of the museum are 40.904331 ° N 72.366064 ° W.

Collections

The Parrish Art Museum contains the largest public collection of works by William Merritt Chase, a large archive to the work and influence of the artist. The heirs Fairfield Porter leaving the collection 250 works. Other highlights of the collection are the works of Ralph Albert Blakelock, James McNeill Whistler, William Glackens, and Arthur B. Davies. The museum plans to further works of the representatives of Abstract Expressionism, how to acquire, for example, by Alice Aycock.

Exhibitions

  • 2012: Malcolm Morley: Painting, Paper, Process
  • 2013: Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating, catalog.
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