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| Established | 1950 |
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| Location | University of Miami 1301 Stanford Drive Coral Gables, Florida, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 25°43′10″N80°16′32″W / 25.719425°N 80.275657°W /25.719425; -80.275657 |
| Type | Visual artsmuseum[1] |
| Visitors | 41,000[2] |
| Director | Jill Deupi[3] |
| Curator | Jill Deupi[3] |
| Public transit access | Metrorail access viaUniversity station |
| Website | www |
Lowe Art Museum is theart museum of theUniversity of Miami inCoral Gables, Florida. The museum is located on the campus of the University of Miami and is accessible byMiami Metrorail atUniversity Station.
Lowe Art Museum's comprehensive collection comprises more than 19,250 objects, which collectively represent more than 5,000 years of human creativity on every inhabited continent. The collection is divided into 14 thematic rooms with each room dedicated to a theme or artistic current in the collection. In addition to its 14 rooms, the museum includes Palley Pavilion, which is dedicated to the museum's glass collection, and an outdoor garden, which includes contemporary art sculptures.[4]
Lowe Art Museum at theUniversity of Miami opened on February 22, 1950. The museum was originally established by a gift from philanthropists Joe[5] and Emily Lowe.[6] At the time of its opening, the museum was the first art museum inSouth Florida.
In 1951,Miami philanthropists Joe and Emily Lowe underwrote construction of a stand-alone facility on the University of Miami campus to absorb the gallery's rapidly growing collections. The new Lowe Art Gallery was dedicated on February 4, 1952. Four years later, in 1956, Alfred I. Barton donated his extensive collection of Native American art to Lowe, which was accommodated in a 1,300 square-foot purpose-built addition.
In 1961, Lowe Art Gallery was selected as a repository for 43 works from the Samuel H. Kress Collection of European Renaissance and Baroque art, which was housed in a new wing built specifically for it.
In 1968, Lowe Art Gallery was renamed the Lowe Art Museum. In 1972, it was the first museum inMiami-Dade County to be professionally accredited byAmerican Alliance of Museums.
In 1985, Lowe was recognized by the State of Florida as a major cultural institution, the first museum in Miami-Dade County to receive this designation.
In 1991, as a result of Lowe's continued art acquisitions (primarily through gift acceptances), the museum underwent a major expansion. Miami architect Charles Harrison Pawley was selected for this project, which added 13,000 additional square feet of temporary and permanent exhibition gallery space to the museum, bringing its total footprint to over 36,000 square feet. This expansion also addressed Lowe's need for new HVAC, security, and fire protection systems.
The museum has an extensive collection of art with permanent collections inGreco-Roman antiquities,Renaissance,Baroque, 17th- and 19th-centuryEuropean art,19th-century American Art, andmodern art.[1] The museum's national and international works come fromLatin America,Africa,Asia,Native America,Ancient Americas, andPacific Islands. It also has a large collection of glassworks including creations byRobert Arneson,Jun Kaneko ("Dango") and Christine Federighi ("Globe").[7] There are also glassworks byPablo Picasso,William Morris, Emily Brock,[8]Harvey Littleton,Erwin Eisch, andGinny Ruffner in its permanent collection.
The permanent collection includes works by:Lippo Vanni,Sano di Pietro,Lorenzo di Bicci,Lorenzo di Credi,Vincenzo Catena,Francesco Bacchiacca,Bernardino Fungai,Adrian Isenbrandt,Jacob Jordaens,Jusepe de Ribera,El Greco,Francisco Goya,Thomas Gainsborough,Paul Gauguin,Claude Monet,Alfred Sisley,Frank Stella,Knox Martin, andDuane Hanson. There are also Modern works of Art byRoy Lichtenstein,Sandy Skoglund,Purvis Young,Louise Nevelson,Julian Stanczak, andEnrique Montenegro in the permanent collection.
The museum's most recent expansion, the Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts, opened in 2008 and added another 4,500 square feet of exhibition space. The museum's collections also include pieces ranging fromclassical archeology tocontemporary art, with important pieces ofRenaissance,Baroque,Asian, andNative American art.
This gallery includes pottery, sculpture, metalwork, and glasswork from ancientAncient Greece and theRoman Empire, dating from the first millennium BCE through the 4th century CE. The antiquities on view are complemented byWashington Allston's mural-sized, neoclassical paintingJason Returning to Demand His Father's Kingdom (1807-1808).
Here you will find Western European Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque paintings, sculptures, and decorative art objects including work from the Samuel H. Kress Collection of Renaissance and Baroque art. This wing was built specifically to house the Kress Collection after Lowe was selected as a repository for 41 works in 1961.
This gallery offers works from all regions of theAfrican continent with an emphasis on theSub-Saharan Africa region. Works include architectural elements, ceremonial and ritual objects, costumes, textiles, and sculptures dating from ca. 500 BCE to the present. In addition, there are ceramic, stone, metal, and paper objects fromEgypt, theNear East, andWestern Asia.
This gallery includes ceramics, metalwork, sculpture, costumes, textiles, and architectural elements dating from theNeolithic period through the present from China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia.
This gallery, which is dimly lit to preserve its contents, hosts pottery, basketry, sculpture, costumes, and textiles of Native North, Central, and South America. Works on view span from the period of 2500 BCE to contemporary works by living Native artists.
The long gallery is dedicated to contemporary artwork that is globally influenced and culturally diverse. Contemporary art, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century, combines materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue to challenge boundaries. Diverse and eclectic, this work is a part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, politics, community, and nationality.
The Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts and houses over 100 objects from Lowe's glass collection as well as ceramics. Palley Pavilion opened on May 1, 2008 thanks to the vision of long-time University supporters and alumni, Sheldon and Myrna Palley, whose collection is a promised gift.
Francesco da Rimini (also called Master of the Blessed Clare)
Francesco Guardi (attr.)
Jacopo Robusti known as Tintoretto
Antonio da Correggio (attr.)
Dominikos Theotokopoulos known as El Greco
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Carlos Alfonzo
José Bedia
Deborah Butterfield
Tatiana Parcero
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