Museums
Museums 21 to 26 of 26:
San Antonio Museum of Art
Housed in the historic Lone Star Brewery on the Museum Reach of San Antonio’s River Walk, The San Antonio Museum of Art serves as a forum to explore and connect with art that spans the world’s geographies, artistic periods, genres, and cultures. Its collection contains nearly 30,000 works representing 5,000 years of history, and is particularly strong in Greek and Roman antiquities, Asian art, and art of the Americas. The Nelson A. Rockefeller Latin American Art wing showcases art from ancient Americas to the present and features a notable collection of pre-Columbian and folk art. In recent years, the Museum has placed particular emphasis on diversifying its contemporary collections to reflect the diversity of voices shaping the trajectory of art. This has included an emphasis on works by women artists, artists of color, and artists from San Antonio and across the state of Texas.
Spanish artists include Anonymous / Unknown.
San Diego Museum of Art
The San Diego Museum of Art has a vast collection of over 32,000 items from around the world, dating back to 3,000 B.C. It is renowned for its American, Asian, European, and Latin American art, but it is particularly famous for its Spanish old master paintings by El Greco, Goya, Ribera, Sanchez Cotán, and Zurbarán. The museum’s collection of Asian art includes some of the most significant pieces, including Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, Buddhist sculpture from China and Japan, and South Asian paintings from Edwin Binney 3rd’s collection. Additionally, the Museum is home to one of the best collections of German Expressionism in the country.
Spanish artists include Alonso Cano, Bartolomé Bermejo, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, El Greco, Francisco de Zurbarán, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Jusepe de Ribera, Juan de Valdés Leal, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Martín Bernat, Pedro de Mena and Sofonisba Anguissola.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens –businessmen and financiers as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day– who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. Today, The Met is the largest art museum in the Americas and the most-visited museum in the United States. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments, covering 5,000 years of art from around the world. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City – The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.
Spanish artists include Anonymous / Unknown, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Francisco de Zurbarán, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Jusepe de Ribera, Luisa Roldán (La Roldana) and Pedro de Mena.
University of Arizona Museum of Art
The University of Arizona Museum of Art offers a year-round schedule of exhibitions, programming, and events designed to engage diverse audiences, inspire critical dialogue and champion art as essential to our lives. The permanent collection includes masterpieces that span eight centuries and innumerable artistic styles. Highlights include The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo, The Visitation by the Master of the Catholic Kings, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, Jackson Pollock’s Number 20, Mark Rothko’s Green on Blue (Earth-Green and White), and Red Canna by Georgia O’Keeffe.
Spanish artists include Fernando Gallego, Jusepe de Ribera, Juan de Juanes, Maestro Bartolomé and Master of the Catholic Kings.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond, Virginia, is one of the largest art museums in the United States. It opened in 1936 and serves as a state agency and privately endowed educational institution. The museum’s purpose is to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret art, as well as promote the study of the arts. Through its Office of Statewide Partnerships program, VMFA offers curated exhibitions, audiovisual programs, symposia, lectures, conferences, and workshops by visual and performing artists. Alongside special exhibitions, the museum houses a global art collection spanning over 6,000 years. With nearly 50,000 artworks, VMFA has the distinction of being the only art museum in the United States that is open 365 days a year and offers free general admission.
Spanish artists include Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Blasco de Grañén, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Jaume Plensa, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí.
Walters Art Museum
Founded in 1934 and located in the heart of Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum holds collections established during the mid-19th century, amassed by the art and sculpture collectors, father and son William Thompson Walters. The museum’s collection spans more than 7 millennia, from 5000 BCE to the 21st century, and encompasses 36,000 objects from around the world, from romantic 19th-century images of French gardens to Ethiopian icons, Qur’ans and Gospel books, ancient Roman sarcophagi, and images of the Buddha. Since its founding, the Walters’ mission has been to bring art and people together to create a place where people of every background can be touched by art. As part of this commitment, admission to the museum and special exhibitions is free.
Spanish artists include Alonso Cano, Alonso Sánchez Coello, Anonymous / Unknown, Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, El Greco, Mariano Fortuny, Martín Rico y Ortega, Pedro Orrente and Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta.