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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]
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.
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 .
Danforth Art; Davis Museum at Wellesley College; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; E. Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art;
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).
The museum is known for its collection of medieval art; Marciari-Alexander, who has a scholarly background in British art, is also the museum's first non-medievalist director since 1965. [ 15 ] Under Marciari-Alexander's tenure, in 2015, the museum completed a $30 million endowment campaign started just before the Lehman Brothers went bankrupt ...
Marasco has been an exhibited artist since 1971 with twenty-three solo shows and more than sixty group shows. Marasco’s photographs are included in public collections of distinction including at: The Fogg Museum at Harvard University; The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College; The New York Public Library Photography Collection; The Portland Museum of Art; and The Bowdoin ...
Her Master of Arts degree from Wellesley was in 1913 and a doctorate in art history from Radcliffe College in 1927. [1] Avery offered one of the earliest classes in museum studies at the Farnsworth Art Museum [4] and by 1915 she introduced the first art history classes at Wellesley. [2]