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The Portland Museum of Art in the Arts District of Portland. The project to integrate the three buildings began in the fall of 2000 and was completed in October 2002. The McLellan House and L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries have an emphasis on 19th-century American art, and the Payson Building houses European and American works from the 20th ...
The exhibition was organized by the Portland Art Museum and toured nine other cities. More than 80,000 people visited for a Vincent van Gogh exhibition in 1959, the proceeds from which were used to purchase a 1915 Water Lilies (catalog #1795) by Claude Monet. The 1950s also witnessed the creation of the museum's Docent Council in 1955, which ...
This list of museums in Portland, Oregon encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Oct. 2—The Portland Museum of Art wants to create a "new cultural landmark" with a major expansion project. Historic preservationists say they'll be tearing down an existing one to do it. The ...
He remarked, “The Portland Museum is a regional museum in a region that is itself a museum, so I believe I had an obligation to connect the new building to the city and the region.” [7] To express the museum’s connection to Maine, Cobb used locally made materials common to Maine (water-struck brick, pine, and granite) as his chief design ...
They were named to honor Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, the husband of Portland Museum of Art benefactor, Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat (1823–1908). The building was designed to complement the Federal style architecture of the McLellan House , the oldest building of the museum complex. [ 1 ]
The Biennial, which originated at the Portland Art Museum in 1949, is a major survey of Oregon artists who define and advance the state's contemporary arts landscape. The Portland 2019 Biennial was curated by a group of three regional curators–Yaelle S. Amir, Elisheba Johnson, and Ashley Stull-Meyers.
Lauren Fensterstock is an American artist, writer, curator, critic, and educator living and working in Portland, Maine. [1] Fensterstock’s work has been widely shown nationally at venues such as the John Michael Kohler Art Center (WI), [2] the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (ME), [3] the Portland Museum of Art (ME), [4] [5] and is held in public and private collections throughout the U.S ...