Blanton Museum of Art

Blanton Museum of Art

The Blanton Museum of Art is the art museum and research center of the University of Texas at Austin under the College of Fine Arts.

The museum is the largest university art museum in the United States. [The University of Texas at Austin Visitor's Guide, 2008, p.21] The Blanton was established in 1963 as the University Art Museum. In 1980, it was renamed the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery.

On April 30, 2006, the museum opened a new 155,000 square foot (14,000 m²) facility on the University's campus, renamed the Blanton Museum of Art, after receiving a $12 million donation from Houston Endowment Inc. in honor of its former chairman, Jack S. Blanton. cite web |title=History and Mission |first= |last= |work=Blanton Museum of Art |url=http://www.blantonmuseum.org/about/history_overview_mission.cfm |date= |accessdate=2007-10-19]

The museum houses some 17,000 works from Europe, the United States and Latin America.

2008

In September 2008 the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin will present an exhibition entitled: "Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York" curated by Linda Dalrymple Henderson. The exhibition is scheduled to run from September 28, 2008January 18, 2009.

References

External links

* [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ The Blanton Museum of Art]


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