Local Artists Works Collected by the Monterey Museum of Art

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Monterey Museum of Art

Established 1959
Location 559 Pacific Street, Monterey, California 93940
Coordinates 36°35′l″N 121°53′48″Westward  /  36.597295°N 121.896637°W  / 36.597295; -121.896637 Coordinates: 36°35′fifty″N 121°53′48″W  /  36.597295°N 121.896637°W  / 36.597295; -121.896637
Visitors Daily 11:00 am – 5:00 pm, Midweek closed
Website world wide web.montereyart.org

The Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) an art museum located in Monterey, California. It was founded in 1959 equally a affiliate of the American Federation of Arts. The Monterey Museum of Art collects, preserves, and interprets the art of California from the nineteenth century to the present 24-hour interval. Notable holdings celebrate the heritage of Northern and Central California, and particularly for early California images from the Carmel Art Colony.

The museum operates two facilities, one at 559 Pacific Street and the other at 720 Via Mirada (La Mirada). The Pacific Street location has eight galleries and houses the administrative and curatorial offices, and the Buck Education Center consisting of classrooms, a library and the Youth Gallery. In 1983, the Monterey Museum of Art caused the historic estate of La Mirada, whose history reflects the heritage of the Monterey surface area. La Mirada was expanded with modern galleries and is used to present traveling exhibitions from other institutions, highlights of the museum's permanent collection that include masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and significant emerging artists of today such as Ingrid Calame.

Exhibitions [edit]

MMA presents approximately twenty exhibitions annually. These include thematic exhibitions selected from the permanent collection, presentations of local artists and major traveling exhibitions from other institutions. In addition to the museum's exhibitions, it presents educational programs that reach thousands of surface area youth annually, docent programs, classes, lectures and workshops, curatorial tours and public events such as a gratis Community Day organized for families. Other local institutions, including Monterey Peninsula Higher, Monterey Plant of International Studies, the Defense Language Institute and California State University Monterey Bay frequently use the museum every bit a resource for classes.

Permanent collections [edit]

The museum's permanent collection consists of more than than 14,000 objects in the post-obit areas: early California painting (1875–1945), photography, contemporary art (1945–present), Asian art and American art (1875–1945). Highlights of the museum's drove include works by Armin Hansen, William Ritschel, Joan Miró, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, as well every bit that of world-renowned photographers Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.

Early California painting [edit]

Notable artists, represented in the museum, who worked in California in the belatedly 19th and early 20th centuries:

  • Jules Tavernier
  • East. Charlton Fortune

Charlton Fortune's Hatton Ranch

  • Evelyn McCormick
  • Gottardo Piazzoni
  • Francis McComas
  • William Ritschel

Ritschel Painting Palette

  • Armin Hansen

Photography [edit]

Photographers represented in the permanent collection:

  • Carleton Watkins
  • William Henry Jackson
  • Anne Brigman
  • Johan Hagemeyer
  • Edward Weston
  • Brett Weston
  • Ansel Adams
  • Imogen Cunningham
  • Wynn Bullock
  • Charles Sheeler
  • Aaron Siskind
  • Irving Penn
  • Sally Isle of mann
  • Garry Winogrand

Contemporary art [edit]

Gimmicky art holdings:

  • Nathan Oliveira
  • David Park
  • Roland Petersen
  • Henri Matisse
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Salvador Dalí
  • Alexander Calder
  • Ilya Bolotowsky
  • Larry Rivers
  • James Rosenquist
  • Wayne Thiebaud

Asian art [edit]

Asian art collection including textiles, woodblock prints, jade and lacquer objects, and ceramics from Japan, Mainland china and Korea.

  • Andō Hiroshige
  • Utagawa Kunisada
  • Katsushika Hokusai

American fine art [edit]

American Art holdings from the 19th century to 1945.

  • Thomas Eakins
  • John Sloane
  • Childe Hassam
  • Oscar Bluemner
  • Stanton Macdonald-Wright
  • Rockwell Kent
  • Grant Wood
  • David Alfaro Siqueiros
  • Rufino Tamayo

Selected collection highlights [edit]

References [edit]

  • Ryce, Walter. "50 50 Chiliad". Monterey County Weekly, 09 Apr. 2009
  • Bakery, Kenneth. "Painter's solo evidence traces in steps of LeWitt". San Francisco Chronicle, half-dozen Jan 2011, Ovation, sec. F
  • The Story of La Mirada. Edited by Gail L. Gonzales. Monterey, CA: Monterey Museum of Art, 1998

External links [edit]

  • Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Museum_of_Art

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