The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum

Frost Art Museum
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Established	1977
Location	Florida International University University Park, Florida,United States
Coordinates	25°45′13.3″N80°22′23.2″W / 25.753694°N 80.373111°W /25.753694; -80.373111
Type	Art museum,Sculpture park[1]
Director	Miriam Machado
Website	frost.fiu.edu

ThePatricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum^[a] is anart museum located in theModesto A. Maidique campus ofFlorida International University inMiami, Florida. Founded in 1977 as'The Art Museum at Florida International University',it was renamed afterPhillip Frost and Patricia Frost in 2003.

The museum's collection includes contemporary art fromthe United States,Latin America, andthe Caribbean.^[2][3] The museum wasaccredited by theAmerican Alliance of Museums in 1999, and it is also a member of theSmithsonian Affiliations program.^[4] It was ranked as "Miami's Best Art Museum" by theMiami New Times in 2009^[5]

The Frost Art Museum's Permanent Collection includes nearly 6,000 objects from several different collections: the General Collection, the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center Collection and the Betty Laird Perry Emerging Artist Collection.

The General Collection holds American printmaking from the 1960s and 1970s, photography,Pre-Columbian objects dating from 200 to 500 AD, and a growing number of works by contemporary Caribbean and Latin American artists. The museum continues to expand the collection through private donations, purchases and acquisitions.

The Metropolitan Museum and Art Center Collection was donated to the Frost Art Museum to ensure its intact survival in 1989, when the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center ofCoral Gables, Florida closed. This collection of more than 2,300 objects includes sculptures, photographs, paintings by 20th-century figures, a collection of American prints from the 1960s, sculptural works, photographs,Japanese Netsukes and ancient bronzes from Asian and African cultures.

In support of the university's studio arts program, the Betty Laird Perry Emerging Artist Collection comprises artworks obtained through purchase awards granted to selected BFA and MFA students graduating from the program since 1980. Numerous award recipients have continued to garner national and international recognition as mature artists.^[6]

The museum was originally housed in an administrative building on Florida International University's campus. It later added numerous outdoor scultupres, and, in 2008, the museum expanded to a much large dedicated facility (46,000 square feet, compared to less than 7,000 at the previous location).^[7] The new Frost Art Museum was designed byYann Weymouth ofHellmuth Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) and features a three-story glass entranceatrium with a suspended staircase leading to the second and third floors. The ground floor houses a café and museum shop, the Dahlia Morgan Members' Lounge, as well as the Steven & Dorothea Green Auditorium and Lecture Hall.^[8]

To protect the collection from potential flooding, the 10,000 sq ft (930 m²) of gallery space is located on the upper two floors of the building, alongside room to store the collection and space for research, preparation, and conservation of artworks. The gallery lighting was designed byArup Group Lighting and makes heavy use of natural light via a system of skylights and diffusing petal arrays.^[9] Three of the nine galleries are dedicated to the permanent collection, while the remaining six galleries feature temporary exhibitions.

On its lakeside site, the new building frames the "Avenue of the Arts." Selected works from the museum's outdoor sculpture collection line the Avenue of the Arts, which connects the museum, theWertheim Performing Arts Center and the Management and Advanced Research Center (MARC) on theModesto A. Maidique campus.

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  Toshiaki - Sino-Japanese War
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  UtagawaKokunimasa - Illustration of Capture of Bakō castle
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  Watanabe Nobukazu - Illustration of the Attack on the Hōōjyo
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  Yoshu Chikanobu - Our Army Crushes the Manchu Army

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