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The Society of Illustrators in 2010 inducted McLean into the Hall of Fame. [9] In 2011, McLean designed and painted the Earth Day poster, which the State Department in Washington, D.C. produces yearly. In 2011, he was interviewed for the National Endowment for the Arts Art Works blog. [10]
McLean became well known for painting horses and western American subject matter in a photorealist style. [2] [3] Like other West Coast photorealists like Ralph Goings and Robert Bechtle, he was included in the exhibitions Twenty-Two Realists at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1970) and Documenta 5 (1972) in Kassel, Germany.
In 1987 philanthropists Dominique and John de Menil opened their vast art collection, which includes pieces by René Magritte, Henri Matisse, and Mark Rothko, with a museum designed by Renzo Piano.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas.With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in 2020, [2] it is the 12th largest art museum in the world based on square feet of gallery space.
As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual arts of the present and recent past and document new directions in art, while engaging the public and encouraging a greater understanding of contemporary art through education programs. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston opened in 1972, in a building designed by Gunnar Birkerts. [2]
Brownie (1905), Houston Zoo; Bygones (1976), Menil Collection; Cancer, There Is Hope (1990) Charlotte Allen Fountain; Charmstone, Menil Collection; Cloud Column (2006), Glassell School of Art; George H. W. Bush Monument; Inversion; Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2) Lillian Schnitzer Fountain (1875), Hermann Park; Monument au Fantôme ...
Audrey Jones Beck (March 27, 1924 – August 22, 2003) was an American art collector and philanthropist who donated her personal art collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The John A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection included impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, and the museum named its Audrey Jones Beck Building ...
Michael Frary (May 28, 1918 – August 30, 2005) was an American Modernist artist from Santa Monica, California, who was known for his interest in structural forms and architectural compositions, as well as for his Surrealist impulses.