Hoblitzelle Foundation
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
With the Hoblitzelle Foundation's donation of 550 pieces of 18th-century British silver in 1987, the Dallas Museum of Art became one of the most prominent collections of this material in the United States.
McDermott Art Fund
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Dallas Museum of Art entered its maturity as a cultural institution beginning in the 1960s. It was certainly no coincidence that the first year of that decade witnessed the foundation of the McDermott Art Fund, created by and named for Margaret and Eugene McDermott, whose philanthropy in Dallas is nearly without parallel. Their generosity has benefited an impressive array of cultural, educational, and healthcare organizations in Texas and elsewhere.
Foundation for the Arts
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In 1956, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts mounted a traveling exhibition entitled Sport in Art, which had been put together by Sports Illustrated and sponsored by the United States Information Agency for display in Sydney, Australia, during the 1956 Olympics. Each of the works in the exhibition depicted a different sporting event, such as bullfighting by Francisco de Goya, boxing by George Bellows, boating
Ida and Cecil Green
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Cecil Green was English by birth but grew up in the United States and Canada, attending the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From an early age, he was intellectually curious and interested in the arts and culture. These were passions he shared with his wife, Ida, who said of their long marriage, "We always worked as a team." The couple endowed many cultural institutions, from museums to libraries to universities.
Munger Fund
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Success breeds further success. This was a maxim clearly understood by Gertrude (Trudie) Terrell Munger (Mrs. Stephen I. Munger) when, in 1925, she created an endowment fund for acquisitions to benefit the permanent collection of the Dallas Art Association, the founding organization of the Dallas Museum of Art.
N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In 1902, a twenty-year-old N.C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth traveled from his parents' home in Needham, Massachusetts to the Brandywine Valley, finding in that rural region of Pennsylvania and northern Delaware a countryside much like the one in which he had grown up and loved.
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Born in Holland in 1872 and schooled in the study of classical art so that he could become a drawing teacher, Piet Mondrian eventually developed into the most abstract of all the abstractionists. In his earliest wo
Indian Jewelry
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The fundamental Mughal design form is the arabesque. Eschewing figurative and narrative art as demanded by Islam, this visual element was originally a purely geometric pattern.
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Andrew Wyeth was the youngest son of N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), a prominent illustrator and painter who encouraged his son's interest in art and stressed a foundation in academic drawing. Andrew Wyeth's siblings also achieved prominence in their chosen fields: his two oldest sisters both had successful careers as painters, another became a composer and his brother was an engineer and inventor. Andrew Wyeth's son Jamie (b.
Tempera (egg and casein)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Tempera paints are a mixture of powdered dry pigments with water and either egg yolk (egg tempera) or milk proteins (casein tempera). Tempera paint dries quickly and once dry, it is extremely durable.