San Diego Museum of Art
The San Diego Museum of Art is an art museum in San Diego. It was founded in 1922 and received a building designed by William Templeton Johnson Museum building. The museum's collection is divided into the departments of American Art, European Art, Asian Art and Contemporary Art.
History
The San Diego Museum of Art in 1922 at the behest of the businessman Appleton S. Bridges established to allow permanent exhibition of an art collection. For the design of a museum building, the architect William Templeton Johnson was hired. Construction began in 1924 and lasted until 1926. Meanwhile, the Fine Arts Society was formed in 1925, which should support the museum. As the first director Reginald Poland was appointed. On February 28, 1926, the Museum under the name Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego was opened. In the same year the city took possession of the museum building. During 1936 held in Balboa Park California - Pacific International Exposition, the name of the museum was changed temporarily in San Diego Palace of Fine Arts. From 1943 to 1947, the museum was closed and housed a department of a hospital of the United States Navy.
In the 1960s and 70s, the museum was expanded. 1966 opened the West Wing, which doubled the exhibition space. In 1974, the new east wing was opened. The name of the museum was changed in 1978 by the Board of Trustees of Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art. This name it carries to this day. End of the 1980s, at the beginning of the 1990s, the museum's collection was expanded by large donations. So Baldwin M. Baldwin Foundation donated the works in 1988 Henri de Toulouse -Lautrec, Edwin Binney the Third 1990 1500 Objects comprehensive collection of South Asian art and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation 1991, a collection of contemporary California art. In 1994, the Interactive Multi -media Art Gallery was opened in Explorer.
2000, the museum was renovated during the normal operation continues running. The following year, a new gallery was opened on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the opening of the museum, the contemporary regional art dedicated.
Collection
The collection of the San Diego Museum of Art encompasses in addition to art works and scientific exhibits from the period of 5000 BC to today. The painting collection has an emphasis on Spanish painting. To include works by Francisco de Zurbarán, El Greco, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Ribera Luiz to the collection. This focus is due at the beginning of the 1940s in the donation of Anne R. and Amy Putnam. In this also the collection of Italian paintings, with works by Giotto di Bondone, Giorgione, Paolo Veronese, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Bernardino Luini and Giovanni Antonio Guardi goes back. In addition there are works by artists such as Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck. With time, was also a work of the Barbizon School, Impressionism and modern and contemporary artists such as Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Max Beckmann, Salvador Dalí and René Magritte.
Thomas Eakins: Elizabeth Crowell with a Dog
William Merritt Chase: The Chase Homestaead Shinnecock
Guy Rose: Late Afternoon, Giverny
Another collection of the Museum is the American Art. Artists such as William Merritt Chase, George Inness, Asher Brown Durand, Thomas Eakins, Guy Rose and Mary Cassatt are represented with images in the collection. The collection also includes works by contemporary California artists. In recent years, also Latin American art was reinforced acquired. The Asian art collection includes 4000 objects. Among Buddhist sculptures from India, Japan, China and South Asia, objects made of jade, ceramics and bronze from China and woodcuts from Japan. The collection of South Asian painting is the largest outside of India.
Special
The San Diego Museum of Art presents changing exhibitions that relate in part to aspects of the museum collection. The most successful exhibition was organized in 1989 with an exhibition of Faberge eggs. Examples of other exhibitions are Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota, Mexico: Promise and Possibility, 1829-1834 about your influence by the German painter Carl fog on Mexican art or Emerging Elites: Indo- Muslim Art in Transition.