Portland Museum of Art
The Portland Museum of Art is an art museum in Portland. With more than 15,000 works of art from the 18th century to the present, it is the largest art museum in the U.S. state of Maine. Focal points of the collection are works by artists who were active in Maine, such as Winslow Homer, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Andrew Wyeth. In addition to works by other American artists, the museum displays French painting from Impressionism to Surrealism, as well as objects of art handicraft.
Building
Today's Portland Museum of Art is in its origins back to the Founded in 1882, Portland Society of Art. First, without a building of its own, showed that institution until the beginning of 20th century art exhibitions at various locations in Portland. Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat bequeathed in 1908 her McLellan House called property of the museum. This three -storey house in 1801 under the direction of senior architect John Kimball ( 1758-1831 ) built in the Georgian style. According to the wishes of the founder of this building could be changed neither from the outside nor the essential parts of the interior, so that the McLellan House exemplary represents the living culture of the 19th century to today.
In addition to the McLellan House placed Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat financial resources to establish a gallery building available that after her husband, Lorenzo de Medici Sweat, should be appointed. According to the plans of the architect John Calvin Stevens (1855-1940) was until 1911 in the style of historicism, the LDM Sweat Memorial Galleries called building right next to the McLellan House.
1976 bequeathed a native of Maine Charles Shipman Payson the museum 17 paintings by Winslow Homer and also donated money for new exhibition spaces. Henry Nichols Cobb (* 1906) by the architectural firm IM Pei & Partners designed the most recent museum building. The named after its founder Charles Shipman Payson Building extension was officially opened in 1983. On 31 January 2006, the Portland Museum of Art acquired the former studio home of Winslow Homer from the collection of the artist's family. Located on the peninsula belonging to Scarborough Prout's Neck long years the home of the artist is located about 15 kilometers south of Portland and can be visited on guided tours.
Collection
The collection of the Portland Museum of Art is mostly due to foundations of private art collectors. The museum displays art from the 18th century to the present with the main collecting areas American art with a focus on art from New England, as well as European art with an emphasis on French painting. With more than 15,000 works of art, the museum is one of the largest of its kind in Maine. This plant unit in 1991 received by 400 graphic works by the artist from the collection of Peggy and Harold Osher a significant expansion.
1979 the museum received more than 50 paintings American artist from the early 20th century, which were used as Hamilton Easter Field Art Foundation Collection included in the collection. Among the artists of this foundation include George Ault, Peggy Bacon, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Robert Laurent. From Elizabeth B. Noyce Collection arrived in 1996 painting by George Bellows, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Abraham Walkowitz, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth, Childe Hassam and Fitz Hugh Lane in the museum collection.
Other American artists in the museum's collection are Harrison Bird Brown, Charles Codman, Charles Octavius Cole, John Greenleaf Cloudman, Charles Frederick Kimball, Benjamin Paul Akers, Franklin Simmons, Frederic Edwin Church, Alex Katz, Rockwell Kent, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt and Louise Nevelson.
Three collections of European paintings show an overview of French impressionism to German expressionism to art works of classical modernism. From The Scott M. Black Collection are for example five sculptures by Auguste Rodin, as well as paintings by Paul Cézanne, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Paul Signac, Rene Magritte, Théo van Rysselberghe, Camille Pissarro, Georges Braque, Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Arp and Maximilien Luce. The Albert Otten Collection, which is located in the museum since 1993, primarily exhibits art from the first half of the 20th century. Among these are the paintings of May of Paul Klee, Early Morning by Max Pechstein and tightening of Wassily Kandinsky and a statuette position devant sur la jambe de quatrième gauche by Edgar Degas.
From the collection of Charles Shipman Payson wife of Joan Whitney Payson Collection comes the. Since 1991 are from this collection works of Impressionism and late Impressionism in the museum. Among these are paintings like Temps d' Orage à Etretat by Gustave Courbet, Confidences by Pierre -Auguste Renoir, Paysage à Saint-Cloud by Paul Gauguin and Rhododendrons, Boston Public Gardens by Maurice Brazil Prendergast.
Exhibited Works
Winslow Homer: Artists Sketching in the White Mountains
Claude Monet: Monte Carlo vu de Roquebrune
Paul Signac: The Pink Cloud, Antibes