Museum of Fine Arts

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Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles. The encyclopedic collection of the MFAH numbers more than 56,000 works and embraces the art of antiquity to the present. Featured are the finest artistic examples of the major civilizations of Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa. Italian Renaissance paintings, French Impressionist works, photographs, American and European decorative arts, African and Pre-Columbian gold, American art, and European and American paintings and sculpture from post-1945 are particularly strong holdings. Recent additions to the collections include Rembrandt van Rijn´s Portrait of a Young Woman (1633), the Heiting Collection of Photography, a major suite of Gerhard Richter paintings, an array of important works by Jasper Johns, a rare, second-century Hellenistic bronze Head of Poseidon /Antigonos Doson, major canvases by 19th-century painters Gustave Courbet and J.M.W. Turner, distinguished work by the leading 20th and 21st century Latin American artists, and The Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art.

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MUSIC FROM SHEPHERD SERIES, WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS PRESENT TWO RIVERS PIANO TRIO US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/12/2009 ...will present the Two Rivers Piano Trio in concert on Sunday, August 16 at 2:30 p.m. at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. The Two Rivers Piano Trio is comprised of the traditional instrumental combination of violin, cello, and piano... ...more

Philanthropist Yao Ming Partners With the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on the 2010 Yao Ming Foundation Gala. PR Newswire; 11/18/2009 ...collaboration between his Yao Ming Foundation and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). The Yao Ming Foundation Gala...http://www.mfah.org/ Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America... ...more

Museum of Fine Arts.(ST. PETERSBURG) Florida Trend; 1/1/2010 John E. Schloder, director of the city's Museum of Fine Arts for nine years, announced he will retire this summer. During his tenure, the museum experienced strong growth, including the... ...more