Lowe Art Museum
The Lowe Art Museum is an art museum operated by the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, in the United States.
 Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, October 2015 | |
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| Established | 1950 |
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| Location | University of Miami 1301 Stanford Drive Coral Gables, Florida, United States |
| Coordinates | 25.719425°N 80.275657°W |
| Type | Visual arts museum[1] |
| Visitors | 41,000[2] |
| Director | Jill Deupi [3] |
| Curator | Jill Deupi [3] |
| Public transit access | Metrorail access via University Station |
| Website | www |
Lowe Art Museum opened in 1950, originally established by a gift from philanthropists.Joe[4] and Emily Lowe.[5] At the time of its opening, the museum was the first art museum in South Florida. The museum has an extensive collection of art with permanent collections in Greco-Roman antiquities, Renaissance, Baroque, 17th- and 19th-century European art, 19th-century American Art, and modern art.[1] The museum's national and international works come from Latin America, Africa, Asia, Native America, Ancient Americas, and the Pacific Islands. It also has a large collection of glassworks including creations by Robert Arneson, Jun Kaneko ("Dango") and Christine Federighi ("Globe").[6] There are also glassworks by Pablo Picasso, William Morris, Emily Brock,[7] Harvey Littleton, Erwin Eisch, and Ginny Ruffner in the 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, and Duane Hanson. There are also Modern works of Art by Roy Lichtenstein, Sandy Skoglund, Purvis Young, Louise Nevelson, Julian Stanczak and Enrique Montenegro in the permanent collection.
The Lowe Art Museum is served by the Miami Metrorail at the University Station.
General
The Lowe Art Museum is located on the campus of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, a city southwest of downtown Miami. The museum's collections include pieces ranging from classical archeology to contemporary art, with important pieces of Renaissance and Baroque art and of Asian and Native American art.
History
On February 22, 1950, the University of Miami inaugurated what would later become the Lowe Art Museum in the former's newly completed Merrick Classroom Building. As the City of Miami's first professional art exhibition space, the "University of Miami Art Gallery" was founded to serve faculty, students, scholars, researchers, and members of the general public throughout the region.
In 1951, Miami philanthropists Joe and Emily Lowe underwrote the construction of a stand-alone facility on UM's campus to absorb the Gallery's rapidly growing collections: The new "Lowe Art Gallery" was formally dedicated on February 4, 1952. Four years later (1956), Alfred I. Barton donated to the Lowe his extensive collection of Native American art, which was accommodated in a 1,300 square-foot purpose-built addition.
In 1961, the 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 this purpose.
In 1968 the Lowe Art Gallery was renamed the "Lowe Art Museum," which in 1972 became the first museum in Miami-Dade County to be professionally accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
In 1985, the Lowe was recognized by the State of Florida as a Major Cultural Institution, the first museum in Miami-Dade County to be thus honored. The Lowe continued to make important art acquisitions (primarily through gift acceptance) in the intervening years, which necessitated a major expansion of its facility in 1991. Miami architect Charles Harrison Pawley was selected for this project, which—when completed in 1996—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 project also addressed the Lowe's need for new HVAC, security, and fire protection systems.
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 Lowe's comprehensive collection now comprises more than 19,250 objects, which collectively represent more than 5,000 years of human creativity on every inhabited continent.
Exhibition halls
The collection is divided into thematic rooms, dedicating a single room for each theme or artistic current in the collection. Currently it includes about 14 rooms, plus the Palley Pavilion, dedicated to the glass collection, and the outdoor garden of contemporary art sculptures.[8]
Greek and Roman antiquities
Sylvia and Ray Marchman, Jr. Gallery
This gallery includes pottery, sculpture, metalwork, and glasswork from ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, dating from the first millennium BCE through the 4th century CE. The antiquities on view are complemented by Washington Allston's mural-sized, neoclassical painting Jason Returning to Demand His Father's Kingdom (1807-1808).
Renaissance and Baroque arts
Samuel H. Kress, Palley Gallery and Sheila Natasha Simrod Friedman Gallery
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 the Lowe was selected as a repository for 41 works in 1961.
Arts of Africa
The Potamkin Family Gallery
This gallery offers works from all regions of the African continent, with an emphasis on sub-Saharan regions. Works on view include architectural elements, ceremonial and ritual objects, costumes, textiles, and sculptures dating from ca. 500 BCE to the present. In addition, you will find ceramic, stone, metal, and paper objects from Egypt, the Near East, and West Asia.
Arts of Asia
Sol and Sheila Taplin Gallery
Here you will find ceramics, metalwork, sculpture, costumes, textiles, and architectural elements dating from the Neolithic period through the present from China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia.
Indigenous art of the Americas
Alfred I. Barton Wing
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.
Contemporary and modern art
Ben Tobin Galleries
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.
Contemporary glass and ceramics
Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavillion and Pat and Larry Stewart Hall, Beaux Arts Bay and Matus Bay
The Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts and houses over 100 objects from the Lowe's glass collection as well as ceramics. The 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.
Temporary exhibits
Friends of Art Gallery and Steven and Dorothea Green Galleries
These two large galleries are dedicated to temporary exhibitions.
Notable Works
Renaissance and Baroque
Francesco da Rimini (also called Master of the Blessed Clare)
- Adoration of the Magi, c. 1340
Francesco Guardi (attr.)
- View of the church of Santa Maria della Salute c. 1750
Jacopo Robusti known as Tintoretto
- Portrait of a young man c. second half of the 16th century
- Portrait of Giambattista Memmo c. 1510
- Portrait of a scholar c. 1515 ca.
- Madonna and Child Enthroned with Donors and Saints Dominic and Elizabeth of Hungary c. 1343
- The oath of Paris c. 1620–1625
- Madonna with child and member of the Hillensberger family 1513
- Lady with dog c. 1690–1700
- Madonna and Child c. 1500
- Madonna with child and San Giovannino c. 1429
Antonio da Correggio (attr.)
- Portrait of a young woman c. 1515
- Madonna and Child 1520 ca.
17th - 20th Century American and European
- Sant' Onofrio c. 1642
- St. Peter [9]
Dominikos Theotokopoulos known as El Greco
- Portrait of a Gentleman [9]
- Portrait of Mrs. Collins c. 1770–1775
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Jose Antonio, Marques de Caballero 1807 [9]
- Le Chaland et la barque 1882
- Waterloo Bridge 1903
- Yosemite Valley, California c. 1863
- Mistral
- Las Frutas 1964
Carlos Alfonzo
- Lifetime [Curso de la Vida] 1988
José Bedia
- Nkunia, Gajo or Rama 1995
Contemporary
- Modular Painting in Four Panels V 1969
- Le Neveu de Rameau 1974
- Football Player 1981
Deborah Butterfield
- Rex 1991
Tatiana Parcero
- Interior Cartography # 43 1996
- Breathing Glass, Installation, 2000
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- Lowe Art Museum: About, ARTINFO, 2008, retrieved 2008-07-28
- 60 years of the Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables Miami Herald
- Lowe Art Museum contact
- About Joe Lowe Company of New York business see Jefferson M. Moak The Frozen Sucker War: Good Humor v. Popsicle Prologue Magazine 2005, Vol. 37, No. 1
- Emily Lowe Obituary.
- Christine Federighi
- Emily Brock
- Lowe Art Museum - collection
- The Cintas Foundation
