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Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

1934 Poplar Avenue - Overton Park
Memphis, Tennessee

Phone: 901 722 3500 -- 1-800-BMA-1916
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Statement of Purpose:

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is the oldest and largest art museum in Tennessee. Dedicated to providing all citizens of Memphis and visitors to the Mid-South the opportunity to learn about the visual arts from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America, the museum's leadership role and reputation in the Mid-South and across the southeastern United States reflects a measure of its importance as a resource for quality arts education. Programs and activities for both adults and students fill the calendar year around, interpreting and providing enjoyable learning experiences for visitors to the permanent collection and changing exhibitions.

European and American art spanning three centuries.

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is the Mid-South's leading encyclopedic art museum, located in its original, landmark 1916 building, and an award-winning 1989 addition.

Highlights & Collections:

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the oldest and largest fine arts institution in Tennessee, has been voted the #1 art museum in Memphis by Memphis Flyer readers for the past four years. The Mid-South's leading encyclopedic art museum is located in its original, landmark 1916 building, and an award-winning 1989 addition. This addition includes the rotunda, an auditorium, art studio, an orientation theater, a museum store, and our highly acclaimed restaurant, The Brushmark Restaurant, which features floor to ceiling windows, as well as an outdoor terrace (one of the largest in Memphis), overlooking historic Overton Park.

The Brooks permanent collection of paintings highlights Italian Renaissance and Baroque as well as British, French Impressionists and 20th Century artists. The Kress Collection is a magnificent assembly of the best of this millionaire's Renaissance paintings. We have one of the finest collections of English portraiture in the South, with works by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Lawrence and Romney among others. Our Impressionists include Pissarro, Sisley, and Renoir. Winslow Homer, Thomas Hart Benton, Childe Hassam and Robert Henri are just a few of the Americans represented at the Brooks, and many well-known figures in contemporary art are represented in the Brooks and in the Fogelman Collection, including Kenneth Noland, Robert Motherwell and Nancy Graves. In addition, one of our more noted collections is that of an internationally-acclaimed regional artist, originally from Arkansas, who lived in Memphis during the latter part of his life: Carroll Cloar.

We offer an impressive selection of decorative arts, including period furniture and textiles. Upstairs, in the 1989 Building is the very popular "global survey" of art: Ancient Greek and Mediterranean art, a rich, colorful collection from the Ancient Americas, and an award-winning survey of African Art.

The Brooks offers a print study room with over 3,000 works of art on paper, and a research library with over 6,000 volumes. The Education department provides guided tours for adults and students (grades 1-12) by trained Docents, offers hands-on activities, films and special audio-visual programs and supplies lesson plans to teachers, important learning tools used before and after students visit the Brooks.

The Brooks permanent collection of paintings highlights Italian Renaissance and Baroque as well as British, French Impressionists and 20th Century artists. The Kress Collection is a magnificent assembly of the best of this millionaire's Renaissance paintings. We have one of the finest collections of English portraiture in the South, with works by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Lawrence and Romney among others. Our Impressionists include Pissarro, Sisley, and Renoir. Winslow Homer, Thomas Hart Benton, Childe Hassam and Robert Henri are just a few of the Americans represented at the Brooks, and many well-known figures in contemporary art are represented in the Brooks and in the Fogelman Collection, including Kenneth Noland, Robert Motherwell and Nancy Graves. In addition, one of our more noted collections is that of an internationally-acclaimed regional artist, originally from Arkansas, who lived in Memphis during the latter part of his life: Carroll Cloar.

We offer an impressive selection of decorative arts, including period furniture and textiles. Upstairs, in the 1989 Building is the very popular "global survey" of art: Ancient Greek and Mediterranean art, a rich, colorful collection from the Ancient Americas, and an award-winning survey of African Art.

Exhibits:

Permanent_Exhibits:

Treasures of Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger's Craft
November 26, 1998 - January 17, 1999

Can you spot a forgery? This dramatic exhibition explores how art historians and scientists determine whether a work of art is the real thing or not. Ultraviolet light displays, x-ray photographs, and magnifying glasses, along with examples of genuine, reworked, and forged antiquities assist the viewer in better understanding of this complex and fascinating aspect of archaeology and art history.

The Wealth of the Thracians
January 17 - March 14, 1999

The Wealth of the Thracians is the first exhibition of Bulgaria's cultural patrimony to be seen in the United States in the post-Communist era. Encompassing much of the land that is modern Bulgaria, ancient Thrace commanded an enormous territory between the Aegean Sea, the Carpathian mountains and the Timok and Dniepr rivers. The culture's principal area of artistry was embossed metalwork. Approximately 200 gold and silver Thracian objects dating from 1200 BC to 400 BC are included in this exhibition.

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Admission & Directions:

>From Nashville (east) take I-40 to Sam Cooper. Follow Sam Cooper until it deadends into East Parkway. Turn left onto East Parkway. Turn right at the second light (Poplar Avenue). Take a left at the second light, into Overton Park. The Museum is straight ahead.

>From Mississippi (south) take I-55 north to I-40 East (going to Nashville). Take the Airways Boulevard Exit north. Airways will turn into East Parkway. Continue to Poplar Avenue. Take a left onto Poplar Avenue. Take a left at the second light, into Overton Park. The Museum is straight ahead.

>From Dyersburg (north) take I-40 east toward Nashville. Take Sam Cooper exit. Follow Sam Cooper until it deadends into East Parkway. Turn left onto East Parkway. Turn right at the second light (Poplar Avenue). Take a left at the second light, into Overton Park. The Museum is straight ahead.

>From Arkansas (west), take I-40 into Memphis (over Mississippi River). Exit onto Front Street heading south. Take a left onto Poplar. Follow appx. two miles. Overton Park / Brooks Museum will be on your left.


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