Allen Memorial Art Museum

Allen Memorial Art Museum

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name= Allen Memorial Art Museum


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established= 1917 citation | title= Allen Memorial Art Museum: About | publisher=ARTINFO | year=2008 | url= http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/22230/8748/about/allen-memorial-art-museum-oberlin/ | accessdate=2008-07-24 ]
location= Oberlin College
87 North Main Street
Oberlin, Ohio 44074 United States
type= Art Museum
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director= Stephanie Wiles
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website= [http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/ Allen Memorial Art Museum]

The Allen Memorial Art Museum (abbreviated 'AMAM') is located in Oberlin, Ohio and is run by Oberlin College. Founded in 1917, its collection is one of the finest of any college or university museum in the United States, consistently ranking among those of Harvard and Yale. [ [http://www.oberlin.edu/colrelat/welcome/octour/stourart.html Short Tour: Allen Art Museum ] ]

The AMAM is primarily a teaching museum, and it is a vital cultural resource for the students, faculty, and staff of Oberlin College as well as the surrounding community. Notable strengths include seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, nineteenth and early twentieth-century European and contemporary American art, and Asian, European, and American works on paper. The collection is housed in an impressive Italian Renaissance-style building designed by Cass Gilbert and named after its founder, Dr. Dudley Peter Allen (B.A., 1875), a distinguished graduate and trustee of Oberlin College.

The AMAM is also known for its art rental program which enables Oberlin College students to rent works of art by notable artists such as Renoir, Picasso, and Dalí for five dollars a semester.

In 1977, Robert Venturi designed an addition that represents one of the earliest and finest examples of postmodern architecture in the United States.

Collections

The Allen Memorial Art Museum has an outstanding collection of more than 12,000 objects – including paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings and photographs – that provide a comprehensive overview of the history of art from a variety of cultures. The collection is particularly strong in European and American paintings and sculpture from the 15th century to today, and has important holdings of Asian paintings, scrolls, sculpture and decorative art, including a large group of Ukiyo-e prints. High-quality African, Pre-Columbian, and Ancient Art is also represented. The museum also houses the Eva Hesse archives, which includes the artist’s notebooks, diaries, photographs and letters, and is proud to oversee, along with the Art Department, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Weltzheimer/Johnson House.

References

External links

* [http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/default.html Allen Memorial Art Museum website]


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