El Paso Museum of Art

El Paso Museum of Art

The El Paso Museum of Art is the principal art museum in El Paso, Texas. It is best known for its 57-piece Samuel H. Kress collection including works by Bernardo Bellotto, Benedetto Bonfigli, Canaletto, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Vincenzo Catena, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Carlo Crivelli, Vittore Crivelli, Macrino d'Alba, Jacopo da Sellaio, Nicolò da Voltri, Juan de Borgoña, Jacopo del Sellaio, Martino di Bartolomeo, Giovanni di Paolo, Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, Sano di Pietro, Battista Dossi, Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi, Juan de Valdés Leal, Benvenuto Tisi (called il Garofalo), Filippino Lippi, Lorenzo Lotto, Alessandro Magnasco, the Master of the Bambino Vispo, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Andrea Previtali, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Pietro Rotari, Bernardo Strozzi, Anthony van Dyck, and Francisco Zurbarán. The permanent collection includes North American works of art by Manuel Gregorio Acosta, Frank Duveneck, Childe Hassam, George Inness, Luis Jiménez, Manuel Neri, Rembrandt Peale, Frederic Remington, and Gilbert Stuart, among others. Pre-Columbian and Mexican colonial art are also exhibited.

The museum is located at One Arts Festival Plaza, El Paso, Texas 79901. It is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; Thursday 9:00 am to 9:00 pm; and Sunday 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. It is closed on Monday.

References

* El Paso Museum of Art, "The Samuel H. Kress Collection", El Paso, El Paso Museum of Art, 1961.
* Hess, Thomas B., "Culture as the American Dream", ARTnews, December 1961.
* Tayler, Paula and Ron Tyler, "Texas Museums: A Guidebook", Austin, University of Texas Press, 1983.

External links

* [http://www.elpasoartmuseum.org/ El Paso Museum of Art]


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