Dallas Museum of Art

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Dallas Museum of Art

Established	1903
Location	Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Dallas, Texas, USA
Website	Dallas Museum of Art

The Dallas Museum of Art is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood.

1 History
2 Collections
3 The Arts District
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

The Dallas Museum of Art's history began with the establishment in 1903 of the Dallas Art Association, which initially exhibited paintings in the Dallas Public Library. In 1909, the association's collection received a permanent home in the Free Public Art Gallery of Dallas, located in Fair Park. The museum relocated several times over the years, only reaching its current downtown location in 1984, when it also officially took its current name.

[edit] Collections

The Museum's collections include the $20 million Hamon Building collection and the $38 million Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, along with 400 pieces of Egyptian and Nubian art.

The Reves collection is housed in an elaborate 15,000 square foot reproduction of the Reveses' home in France, Villa La Pausa, where the works originally were displayed. Among the paintings, sculptures, and works on paper are works from leading impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modernist artists, including Cézanne, Daumier, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and van Gogh. Another part of the Reves wing is devoted to decorative arts and includes Chinese export porcelain; European furniture; Oriental and European carpets; iron, bronze, and silver work; antique European glass; and rare books. Memorabilia of the Reveses' friendship with English statesman Winston Churchill is housed in the wing as well.