The Gustave and Franyo Schindler Collection of African Sculpture
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Published in 2003 on the occasion of the Dallas Museum of Art's centennial, this short essay by previous Dallas Museum of Art curator John Lunsford reflects back to the 1974 acquisition of the Schindler Collection of African Sculpture.
African Art at the DMA: A Brief History
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The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has long championed the inclusion of African art in the discourse of the world’s art. Before acquiring its first African object in 1969, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (DMFA, as the Museum was known then) hosted and organized a number of exhibitions that introduced the public to this non-Western visual expression.
The Steven G. Alpert Collection of Indonesian Textiles
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Among those cultural areas of the world where cloth has had special significance apart from its practical use as clothing, Indonesia is unsurpassed in the integration of form and function, color and texture, and pattern and symbol in textiles which are in themselves objects of prestige and wealth, which are often thought to have protective powers, and which can even be considered sacred.
Development of the Dallas Museum of Art's Indonesian Collection
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One of the Dallas Museum of Art's most significant collection areas is in the regional, or traditional, art of Island Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia and Sarawak.
The DMA Sculpture Garden
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The following is an essay by Dr. Steven A.
Textiles at the Dallas Museum of Art
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The following excerpt was written in 2003 by Carol Robbins, the former Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Curator of the Arts of Americas and the Pacific, for the publication Dallas Museum of Art, 100 Years.
Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts Exhibitions
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Breaking the looking glass, stirring the waters, and challenging people's perceptions. That's what exhibitions at the short-lived Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts were about under Douglas MacAgy, its first and only professional director, whose tenure lasted from 1959 to 1963.
Dallas Art Institute
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The most influential large scale teaching effort [in Dallas' art community] occurred in 1926 when Olin Travis, recently returned from extensive study at The Art Institute of Chicago, established the Dallas Art Institute on the second floor of a building at 1215 1/2 Main Street.
Celebrating Texas Artists
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The following excerpt comes from the essay "Celebrating Art and Artists in Texas," in Dallas Museum of Art, 100 Years
Hoblitzelle Foundation
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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.