Museums

Meadows Museum

As a division of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University (SMU), the Meadows Museum houses one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain, with works dating from the 10th to the 21st centuries. The primary collection contains works by renowned painters including El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo, Goya, Miró, Sorolla, Dalí and Picasso. Additional highlights include Renaissance-era altarpieces, monumental Baroque canvases, rococo oil sketches, polychrome wood sculptures, Impressionist landscapes, modernist abstractions, a comprehensive collection of the graphic works of Goya, and select sculptures by major twentieth-century masters, including Rodin, Maillol, Giacometti, Moore, Smith, and Oldenburg.

Spanish artists include Anthonis Mor, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Jusepe de Ribera, Juan Alonso Villabrille y Ron, Juan de Borgoña, María Blanchard and Mariano Fortuny

Milwaukee Art Museum

Housed in iconic buildings by Santiago Calatrava, Eero Saarinen, and David Kahler on a 24-acre lakefront campus, the Milwaukee Art Museum is Wisconsin’s largest art institution. The collection comprises over 32,000 works, including American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; conceptual and minimalist art; prints and drawings; European art from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century; and photography and new media.

Spanish artists include Francisco de Zurbarán and Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

Morgan Library & Museum

Originally established as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor Pierpont Morgan in 1906, The Morgan Library & Museum has evolved into a significant cultural institution housing over 350,000 objects. Located in the heart of New York City, the museum and independent research library boasts luminous spaces designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, connecting three centuries of landmark Morgan architecture.

The collection features original manuscripts by Mozart and Beethoven, along with drawings by masters like Rembrandt and Rubens, as well as contemporary artists such as George Condo and Wangechi Mutu. Additionally, the institution houses unparalleled medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, a rare Gutenberg Bible, literary artifacts from iconic writers like Twain and Hemingway, and ancient Western Asian sculptures dating back over two millennia. thousand years old.

Spanish artists include Alonso Cano, Anonymous / Unknown, Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, Antonio Spano, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Eugenio Lucas Velázquez, Francisco de Herrera el Mozo, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Jaume Ferrer Bassa, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Jusepe de Ribera, Mariano Salvador Maella, Miguel Barroso, Pedro de Campaña and Vicente Carducho

MSU Broad Art Museum

Opened in 2012, the 46,000-square-foot MSU Broad Art Museum is located at Michigan State University. Designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, it was named in honor of Eli and Edythe Broad, long-time supporters of the university and advocates for the arts. The museum, although contemporary, has a large collection of historical works that were inherited from the Kresge Art Museum, MSU’s former art museum, when it closed. This collection includes over 10,000 works and growing and represents a wide array of artistic production from the ancient to the present, across the world, in a variety of media. Significant holdings include Ancient Greek and Roman antiquities, pre-Columbian sculptures and vessels, Medieval and Renaissance illuminations, Old Master paintings, 19th-century American paintings, and 20th-century sculpture by artists like Alexander Calder and Jenny Holzer. The collection also features works by contemporary artists such as Chuck Close and Ann Hamilton. The museum’s focus is on expanding its collection with new modern and contemporary works post-1945.

Spanish artists include Anonymous / Unknown, Antoni Clavé, Eduardo Chillida, Francisco de Zurbarán, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Joan Miró, José Rafael Aragón, Mariano Fortuny, Martín Chirino, Oscar Domínguez, Pablo Picasso, Pedro Antonio Fresquis and Salvador Dalí