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12 unusual facts about Museum of Fine Arts


16th G7 summit

In addition to their talks about significant international problems, the world leaders set aside some time to dine together in a formal affair which took place in Houston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH) (HF.

Charles Green Shaw

Shaw’s work is part of most major collections of American Art, including the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim, the Smithsonian Institution, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery.

Chen Chi

Chi's works have been shown extensively throughout the United States including at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1948); the Miami Beach Art Center (1952); the La Jolla Art Center and the Witte Museum (1953); and the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum in Seattle (1955).

Guitarist

One of the more famous examples is the painting Degas's Father Listening to Lorenzo Pagans Playing the Guitar by Edgar Degas, which was painted sometime between 1869–72 and is currently owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Kibi no Makibi

A late 12th century narrative handscroll in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston depicting Kibi's journey to China is one of the earliest of all Japanese narrative pictorial handscrolls (e-maki) known to be extant.

Kyra E. Hicks

Hicks also confirmed the price of the Pictorial Quilt paid by the owner Maxim Karolik who donated the quilt to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Matsutarō Shōriki

The position of Chair of the Department of Asia, Oceania, and Africa at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is also named after Shōriki.

Mitsunari Kanai

He was also highly respected for his metalworking skills and deep historical knowledge of the Japanese sword, the katana, serving at times as a specialist advisor to the East Asian Collection at the nearby Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2013 expansion - In 2012, the museum selected Steven Holl Architects over two other finalists, Snøhetta and Morphosis in an international search to design an expansion that will primarily hold galleries for art after 1900.

Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial

In November 2010, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston put Walker's one-third-scale plaster model, which had sat in storage for years, on permanent exhibit in the new Art of the Americas Wing.

Ted Landsmark

Landsmark also serves as a trustee to numerous arts-related foundations including Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Tokihiro Satō

Sato’s photographs are held throughout the world in public and private museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art (Saitama, Japan); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo); Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane); and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.


Ambreen Butt

Some of which includes, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, Ohio, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; Kunsthall Fridericianum, Kassel; National Art Gallery, Pakistan; Davis Museum at Wellesley College.

Andrew Schelling

Early influences were the wildlands of New England, and Asian art viewed in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University's Fogg Museum.

Antonio de Bellis

Other autograph works are the Scene of a sacrifice in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Finding of Moses the National Gallery, London and The Liberation of St. Peter at Whitfield Fine Art, London.

Arca di San Domenico

When the Ark was later redesigned, these supports were dispersed and are now tentatively identified in several museums: the archangels "Michael" and "Gabriel" (in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London), the statue "Faith" (Louvre, Paris), a group of three deacons (in the Bargello, Florence) and a similar group in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Art in Bloom

The original exhibit was held in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1976, where it is held annually; other institutions hosting such displays include the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri.

Christopher Bratton

Christopher Bratton is an American educator, administrator, and the president of School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and deputy director of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Daniel Pabst

In addition to the above museums, he is represented in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY, and the Winterthur Museum in Wilmington, DE.

Daved Hild

In the late seventies, while studying art history at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Hild formed the punk band The Girls with Robin Amos, George Condo and Mark Dagley.

Deganit Stern Schocken

Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.

Edmund M. Wheelwright

In 1893 Wheelwright and R. Clipston Sturgis were chosen by the trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to spend a year studying art museums throughout Europe; they later contributed to the ongoing design of the museum's building on Huntington Avenue.

Femme nue couchée

It surfaced again in 2000 and 2003, when it was offered for sale first to the Museum of Fine Arts and then to the Commission for Art Recovery (CAR) by a Slovak man claiming to be an antiques dealer, but who appeared to his interlocutors to be involved with the Slovak organised crime scene.

George R. Brown

The organization donates to notable institutions such as Rice University, Southwestern University, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Glenda Leon

Her works belongs to the permanent collections of Georges Pompidou Centre, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA.

Henry Horenstein

His work has been collected by many institutions including the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.; the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Library of Congress; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.

Henry Mosler

Examples of his work are in currently in the collections of the Allentown Art Museum, the Wichita Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Huntington Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, the Sydney Art Museum, NSW, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Richmond Art Museum, the art museums of Springfield, Massachusetts, and various museums in New York.

Henry Vasnier

At his death, his collection of works and objets d'art (including works by Corot) were bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts at Reims.

Joseph Bakos

During his stay he exhibited some paintings together with Mruk at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Joseph Glasco

Today, his works are on permanent display in numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Joseph Havel

He lives and works in Houston, Texas and is director of the Glassell School of Art.

Kim Tschang Yeul

His works are shown at the Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Fondation Veranneman, Ghent, Belgium; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Bochum Museum Art Collection, Bochum, Germany; and elsewhere.

Leonard Baskin

His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums.

Ludovisi Throne

The Ludovisi Throne's less accomplished twin, the Boston Throne in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which appeared in 1894, shortly after the Ludovisi auction and was bought by the connoisseur Edward Perry Warren, who donated it to Boston, is widely doubted.

Pompeo Batoni

He was again the subject of a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the National Gallery in London, and the Ducal Palace in Lucca in 2007-2008.

Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin

The painting was donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1893 by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lee Higginson following their New York auction purchase in 1889.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Then, in 1981 the Museum of Modern Art (New York) mounted a retrospective of her work that subsequently traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), and the Musée d'Art Contemporain (Montreal).

Susan Rothenberg

Recent exhibitions include a retrospective organized by Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo (1992–1994), which traveled to Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Chicago, and Seattle (1992); a retrospective at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Monterrey, Mexico (1996); a survey of prints and drawings presented by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (1998); and Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1999).

Terence Yung

Notable venues include the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the Teatro de Puigcerdá, the Grand Opera House in Delaware, Benaroya Hall, Yamaha Salon, Steinway Hall in New York City, the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

Ward Cheney

His fine engraving work was praised by curator S. R. Koehler at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, but the interest in line engraving was in decline.