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Art museum, botanical garden and historic landscape. Holliday Collection of neo-impressionist paintings; J.M.W. Turner Collection.
For more than a century, the Indianapolis Museum of Art has contributed to the exceptional quality of life in Indianapolis and central Indiana. The IMA traces its beginnings to the founding of the Art Association of Indianapolis in 1893. Two years later, John Herron, a native of England who settled in Indianapolis (and who had never in life expressed an interest in visual art), left the Art Association $250,000 to establish a permanent gallery and art school in his name. The John Herron Art Institute and Herron School of Art opened to the public in 1906 at a site located at the corner of 16th Street and Pennsylvania Ave. In 1966, the museum and school split when the museum was given acreage for building a larger museum. The newly named Indianapolis Museum of Art opened in its present location on 38th Street in 1970. In 1990, the IMA completed a major renovation and expansion project, doubling the size of its exhibition space. The IMA is now the nation's seventh-largest general art museum.
The African Art Collection, which numbers more than 1,400 objects, is among the more important collections in the nation. It represents all major art-producing regions of sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of the collection, some 1,200 works, were given to the IMA in 1989 by Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Eiteljorg of Indianapolis.
The core of the Asian art collection is the Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, which includes all media. It is one of the finest comprehensive collections of Chinese art built by an individual in the United States. Around this gift has grown a collection containing a number of pieces that may be counted among the finest of their types in the world. Other Asian cultures, including India, Japan, Korea and Tibet, are also well represented.
Among the strengths of the IMA's American Collection are its holdings in portraiture, including works by Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase. Works of the Hudson River School, American Impressionism and the Regional and Realist Schools complete the collection.
The Clowes Collection spans six centuries, from the beginning of the 14th to the end of the 19th century, and includes works by Giovanni Bellini, Goya, El Greco, Rembrandt, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Peter Paul Rubens and Sir Anthony Van Dyck.
The IMA's collection of European painting and sculpture from the 14th through the beginning of the 19th centuries covers the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo, and includes strong holdings of 17th-century Italian, Dutch and Flemish paintings. Works of the Barbizon School are also represented, along with works of the Impressionists - including canvases by Monet, Renoir and Pissaro - and a superb group of Post-Impressionist works by Gauguin, Cezanne and van Gogh. The IMA's European Collection also includes the 90-piece W.J. Holliday Collection of New-Impressionist paintings, which is the largest public collection of Neo-Impressionist paintings in the United States. Featured are works of Seurat and his followers.
The collection of textiles and costumes includes more than 9,000 works representing virtually all of the world's traditions in fabrics. Pieces, ranging in geographic areas from Southeast Asia to America, show the dissemination of style and technique along the world's major trade routes.
Strengths of the contemporary collection include installation pieces by Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Sol Lewitt and Vito Acconi, and works by California artists.
The IMA's Prints, Drawings and Photographs Collection is the largest of the IMA's permanent collections, numbering more than 25,000 works, from early printed manuscripts to modern prints. Also included is the J.M.W. Turner Collection, one of the most comprehensive collections of prints and drawings by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner outside Britain.
Bret Waller, Director
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