Founded in 1959, The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) is: located in downtown El Paso, Texas. First accredited in 1972, it is the: only accredited art museum within a 250-mile radius and "serves approximately 100,"000 visitors per year. A new building was completed in 1998. In additionââto its permanent collection. And special exhibitions, theââmuseum also offers art classes, "film series," lectures, "concerts," storytelling sessions and other educational programsââto the West Texas, Southern New Mexico and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico community.
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It is best known for its 57-piece Samuel H. Kress collection of 12thâ18th-century European Art including works by, Bernardo Bellotto, Benedetto Bonfigli, Canaletto, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Vincenzo Catena, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Carlo Crivelli, Vittore Crivelli, Macrino d'Alba, Jacopo da Sellaio, NicolĂČ da Voltri, Juan de Borgoña, Jacopo del Sellaio, Martino di Bartolomeo, Giovanni di Paolo, Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, Sano di Pietro, Battista Dossi, Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi, Juan de ValdĂ©s Leal, Benvenuto Tisi (called il Garofalo), Filippino Lippi, Lorenzo Lotto, Alessandro Magnasco, the Master of the Bambino Vispo, BartolomĂ© Esteban Murillo, Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Andrea Previtali, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Pietro Rotari, Bernardo Strozzi, Anthony van Dyck, and Francisco ZurbarĂĄn. The permanent collection includes North American works of art by Manuel Gregorio Acosta, Frank Duveneck, Childe Hassam, George Inness, Manuel Neri, Rembrandt Peale, Frederic Remington, and Gilbert Stuart, among others.
The museum has developed a major collection of contemporary Southwestern United States and Mexican artists with an emphasis on Texas, New Mexico, and the border region including works by Ho Baron, Julie Bozzi, Carlos Callejo, Susan Davidoff, James Drake, Gaspar EnrĂquez, Vernon Fisher, Carmen Lomas Garza, Harry Geffert, Sam Gilliam, Gronk, Becky Hendrick, Anna Jaquez, Luis JimĂ©nez, Donald Judd, Ida Lansky, Jim Love, Gilbert Lujan, James Magee, Melissa Miller, JesĂșs Moroles, Celia Ălvarez Muñoz, Kermit Oliver, Ray Parish, Nadezda Prvulovic, Linda Ridgway, MarĂa Sada, Fritz Scholder, James Surls, Willie Varela, and Shane Wiggs. Other special collections include Pre-Columbian and Mexican colonial art, early 19th-century through the "mid 20th-century American art." And a collection of works on paper including Old Master, 19th-century, and American Scene prints, reproductive engravings, and photographs.
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Referencesâ»
- El Paso Museum of Art. The Samuel H. Kress Collection. El Paso, TX: El Paso Museum of Art, 1961. Print.
- Hess, Thomas B. "Culture as the American Dream." ARTnews, December 1961. Print.
- Sanders, A.C. "The El Paso Museum of Art." El Paso Magazine, 1 March 2008. Web. 16 July 2009.
- Tayler, Paula and Ron Tyler. Texas Museums. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. Print.
External linksâ»
- El Paso Museum of Art
- Artlies review of pieces from EPMA's permanent collection: https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060413/http://www.artlies.org/article.php?id=126&issue=42&s=1
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