Welcome to the St Pete Museum of Fine Arts
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| Location within Florida | |
| Established | 1965 |
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| Location | 255 Beach Drive NE Saint Petersburg, Florida |
| Coordinates | 27°46′xxx″N 82°37′56″W / 27.77497°N 82.63221°W / 27.77497; -82.63221 |
| Type | Art |
| Managing director | Kristen A. Shepherd |
| Public transit access | downtown Looper Trolley |
| Website | www |
History [edit]
The MFA was founded by art collector and philanthropist Margaret Acheson Stuart (1896–1980). As its first president, Mrs. Stuart contributed significantly to the structure of the building and provided endowment funds through her estate to support annual operations and to maintain the beauty of the grounds. She also provided monies to larn art and donated works from her collection. The Margaret Acheson Stuart Gild, the Museum's contained support organization, is named in her honor.
The city provided the four-acre waterfront site for the structure of the original building and The Junior League of Petrograd offered resources for The Corking Hall. The edifice was designed by John Volk and Associates of Palm Beach, with a curving colonnade on Beach Drive. Volk stated that "a museum should give a feeling of permanence and that is what I have tried to do with this building."[1] Chartered by the State of Florida in 1961, The MFA opened its Embankment Drive doors to the public in 1965–the get-go art museum in Saint petersburg.
The Marly Room, an auditorium seating 220, and a sculpture garden, both made possible by Mrs. Stuart, were added to the building in 1974. Moreover, the late President of the Board Charles W. Mackey (Mrs. Stuart'due south nephew and trustee Fay Mackey's male parent) led a successful try to double the galleries from ten to twenty and to construct a second floor for administrative offices, a classroom, and a library by 1989. The addition was designed by Harvard, Jolly, Marcet & Assembly.
A $21 1000000 expansion broke ground on Monday, December 4, 2006 and more than doubled the size of the museum. The new 33,000 square-human foot Hazel Hough wing, on the north side of the building, was finished in 2008.[two] [3] The expansion included a new cafe, an enlarged library and a bigger museum shop.
The Hazel Hough Wing, designed by Yann Weymouth and Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK), opened to the public March 22 and 23, 2008. At approximately 39,000 foursquare anxiety, the wing more doubled the Museum's infinite.
The two-story glass Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory is now a centerpiece. Information technology provides a community gathering place. The second-flooring Ballad Upham Bridge connects the original building to the Mary and Fred Shuh Lobby and the fly. The MFA Café in the Conservatory and on the terrace provides a view of the bay. Special exhibitions are now presented mainly in the Hazel Hough Wing, with a second-floor gallery devoted to photography and works on paper.
In 2013, the original galleries, The Junior League Peachy Hall, and the Marly Room were renovated nether the direction of design advisor Jeff Daly. The Cyrus Fay Mackey and Howard Acheson Galleries side by side to The Groovy Hall at present display wood floors, as does the Gary and Gail Damkoehler Gallery leading to the Conservatory. Color was added throughout and augmented lighting was put in identify. Windows facing Embankment Drive were replaced with energy-efficient, storm-rated glass. In the Marly Room, an arched window at the back of the phase was reopened.
The renovation project paved the mode for the Museum'south 50th anniversary in 2015.
In 2017, the outside of the building every bit well every bit the collection galleries were re-lit with LED lighting, and European paintings were re-installed in the Mackey Gallery..
The museum has had half dozen directors: Rexford Stead, Lee Malone, Michael Milkovich, John Schloder, Kent Lydecker, and the current Executive Director, Kristen A. Shepherd. Shepherd is the youngest and the offset female Executive Manager of the Museum.
Today, the museum offers programs for adults and families. For adults, the MFA offers recurring monthly programs and special lectures, gallery talks, picture palace screenings, and music concerts.[iv] Families tin also enjoy the museum through monthly programs such as Kidding Effectually Yoga and annual events such as Painting in the Park.[5]
Collection [edit]
The collection of more than 20,000 objects includes major works by the French artists Monet, Morisot, Barye, Rodin, Corot, and Bourdelle, and the Americans Inness, Hassam, Bellows, O'Keeffe, Pearlstein and Andrew Wyeth. Also on view are ancient Greek and Roman, Egyptian, Asian, African, pre-Columbian, Native American art and objects. Decorative arts are integrated throughout the original building and featured in three galleries, as well. The Helen Harper Brown Gallery is dedicated to glass art, including Tiffany and Steuben. The Helen and Dick Minck Gallery showcases new media and a growing drove of contemporary art is on view in the Acheson Gallery.
The photography collection includes gifts from Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew and Dr. Robert L. and Chitranee Drapkin. To engagement, the Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection comprises more than fifteen,000 images donated to the Museum. Selections from the photography collection are on view in the Miriam F. Acheson Gallery.
The museum's exhibitions take included: Chihuly Across Florida: Masterworks in Glass (2004); Monet'south London, Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859–1914 (2005), and Aboriginal Egypt: Art and Magic, Treasures from the Fondation Gandur Pour l'Art/Geneva (2011–2012), Moon Museum: Art and Outer Space (2018), Syd Solomon: Views From Above (2018-2019), and Fine art of the Stage: Picasso to Hockney (2020). [6]
The MFA received accreditation from the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums) in 1973 and was reaccreditated in 1983, 1998, and 2010.
References [edit]
- ^ "Museum of Fine Arts Leningrad History". MFA St. Pete . Retrieved 2019-02-22 .
- ^ "Floridian: Museum's new view". www.sptimes.com . Retrieved 2016-05-09 .
- ^ "Newspaper Archives | tampabay.com - Tampa Bay Times". pqasb.pqarchiver.com . Retrieved 2016-05-09 .
- ^ "Developed Programs". MFA St. Pete . Retrieved 2019-07-11 .
- ^ "Family Programs". MFA St. Pete . Retrieved 2019-07-eleven .
- ^ "Past Exhibitions". mfastpete.org. Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg). Retrieved 27 January 2021.
External links [edit]
- Official website
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Fine_Arts_%28St._Petersburg,_Florida%29