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The Davis Museum is an art museum located on the Wellesley College campus in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The college art collection was first displayed in the Farnsworth Art Building, founded in 1889. The museum in its present form opened in 1993 in a building designed by Rafael Moneo. [1]
Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary , it is a member of the Seven Sisters Colleges , an unofficial grouping of current and former women's colleges in the northeastern United States .
An art museum houses a permanent collection, whereas a gallery usually hosts a changing program of art exhibitions. However, some university and college art galleries also feature permanent collections or showcase collections owned by the larger institution. Some institutions have a museum or an art gallery, and some have both.
The museum is located at 241 Wellesley Street, on the campus of Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts. [1] It is open to the public Thursdays through Sundays ten months of the year, and Thursday to Saturday in July and August.
Born in Tudela, Spain, Moneo studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) from which he received his architectural degree in 1961.. Moneo designed the Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and the Audrey Jones Beck Building (an expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston).
Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway, 1869, The Wellesley College Museum Lake George – Brooklyn Museum Lake George , oil on canvas, 1869, Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City, has been called "one of the culminating works of the American tradition that began with Cole and Durand , both of whom had painted the lake."
Students at Wellesley College, the elite Massachusetts women's school that counts Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright among its alumnae, voted Tuesday night to make transgender men and ...
Myrtilla Avery, 1891 – classical scholar focused on Medieval art, former chair of Department of Art at Wellesley College and director of the Farnsworth Art Museum 1930–1937; [3] introduced the first art history classes at Wellesley and the earliest museum studies courses; Carole B. Balin, 1986 – professor of Jewish history [4]