Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
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The Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale is an art museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
. Originating in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center, the museum is located in a 75000 square feet (6,967.7 m²) modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes
. The current building was constructed in 1986, with a 10000 square feet (929 m²) wing added in 2001. The main exhibition area comprises 21000 square feet (1,951 m²); a sculpture terrace on the second floor adds an additional 2800 square feet (260.1 m²) of space. The museum, unlike major museums in nearby Miami, Florida
and Palm Beach, Florida
, emphasizes contemporary (20th century) projects.
Among its 6200 pieces are a significant collection of ceramics by Pablo Picasso
, a collection of contemporary Cuba
n art representing the contributions of more than 125 artists, and North America's largest exhibition of work from the Northern European CoBrA
avant-garde movement. The museum's collections are strong in the cultures of South Florida and the Caribbean.
The museum is associated with Nova Southeastern University
.
painter William Glackens
. The 2000 square feet (185.8 m²) exhibit is the largest collection of his work in existence, and includes both his oldest known (Philadelphia Landscape, 1893) and last completed (White Rose and Other Flowers, 1937) paintings.
opened at the Museum of Art. The museum was one of only four venues for this exhibit, touring the United States for the first time in over 25 years. During its four-month run in Fort Lauderdale, over 700,000 tickets were sold.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010...
. Originating in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center, the museum is located in a 75000 square feet (6,967.7 m²) modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes was a American architect.Barnes was born in Chicago, Illinois into a family he described as "incense-swinging High Episcopalians", consisting of Cecil Barnes, a lawyer, and Margaret Helen Ayer, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for the novel Year of Grace...
. The current building was constructed in 1986, with a 10000 square feet (929 m²) wing added in 2001. The main exhibition area comprises 21000 square feet (1,951 m²); a sculpture terrace on the second floor adds an additional 2800 square feet (260.1 m²) of space. The museum, unlike major museums in nearby Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
and Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach, Florida
The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The Intracoastal Waterway separates it from the neighboring cities of West Palm Beach and Lake Worth...
, emphasizes contemporary (20th century) projects.
Among its 6200 pieces are a significant collection of ceramics by Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
, a collection of contemporary Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
n art representing the contributions of more than 125 artists, and North America's largest exhibition of work from the Northern European CoBrA
Cobra
Cobra is a venomous snake belonging to the family Elapidae. However, not all snakes commonly referred to as cobras are of the same genus, or even of the same family. The name is short for cobra capo or capa Snake, which is Portuguese for "snake with hood", or "hood-snake"...
avant-garde movement. The museum's collections are strong in the cultures of South Florida and the Caribbean.
The museum is associated with Nova Southeastern University
Nova Southeastern University
Nova Southeastern University, commonly referred to as NSU or Nova, is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian, research university located in Broward County, Florida, with its main campus in the town of Davie...
.
Glackens Wing
In 2001, the museum expanded, adding the Glackens wing to house a collection of over 500 works from American realistRealism (visual arts)
Realism in the visual arts is a style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see. The term is used in different senses in art history; it may mean the same as illusionism, the representation of subjects with visual mimesis or verisimilitude, or may mean an emphasis on the actuality of...
painter William Glackens
William Glackens
William James Glackens was an American realist painter.Glackens studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later moved to New York City, where he co-founded what came to be called the Ashcan School art movement...
. The 2000 square feet (185.8 m²) exhibit is the largest collection of his work in existence, and includes both his oldest known (Philadelphia Landscape, 1893) and last completed (White Rose and Other Flowers, 1937) paintings.
Tutankhamun exhibit
In December 2005, a traveling exhibit of relics from the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh TutankhamunTutankhamun
Tutankhamun , Egyptian , ; approx. 1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty , during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom...
opened at the Museum of Art. The museum was one of only four venues for this exhibit, touring the United States for the first time in over 25 years. During its four-month run in Fort Lauderdale, over 700,000 tickets were sold.