Museums

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Last updated 7/5/05

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Motion Pictures about Art and Artists

Comments/Misc.

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Sacramento

Sacramento, CA

Art Foundry Gallery

Barton Gallery

b. sakata garo

Crocker Art Museum
CSUS Galleries & Museums
Doiron Gallery

Elliot Fouts Gallery

Exploding Head Gallery

40 Acres Art Gallery

La Raza Galeria Posada

JAYJAY Gallery

Pamela Skinner Gallery

SFAC Sacramento Fine Arts Center

Smith Gallery

Solomon Dubnick Gallery
Tower Framing and Design

Toy Room Gallery

Viewpoint Gallery

Greater Sacramento Area

Chico, CA

Janet Turner Print Gallery, Chico

Davis, CA

John Natsoulas Gallery

Pence Gallery, Davis, CA (Closed for renovations)
UC Davis Galleries & Museums

Reno, NV

Nevada Museum of Art  NMA

Stockton, CA

Haggin Museum

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Bay Area

Recommended: "art-Sites San Francisco" 2003 by Sidra Stich. This $19.95 book lists hundreds of art sites in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

Berkeley, CA

Berkeley Art Museum and PFA

Oakland, CA

Oakland Museum of California

San Francisco, CA

Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco (Review article)

Crown Point Press, San Francisco
John Pence Gallery, San Francisco
Pasquale Iannetti Art Gallery, San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
     California Palace of Legion of Honor
     The deYoung Museum is closed till 2005
San Jose Museum of Art
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

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Southern California

Irvine, CA

Irvine Museum

Laguna Beach, CA

Laguna Art Museum

La Jolla, CA

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Los Angeles, CA

The Getty - www.getty.edu

LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
MOCA: Museum of Contemporary Art
UCLA Armand Hammer Museum

Newport Beach, CA

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

Pasadena

Norton Simon Museum

Huntington Library, Art Collections, San Marino

San Diego, CA

San Diego Museum of Art  SDMA

Timken Museum of Art

San Marino

Huntington Library, Art Collections, San Marino

Santa Barbara, CA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

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Northwest

Portland, OR

Portland Art Museum

Seattle, WA

Frye Art Museum

Henry Art Gallery Seattle
Seattle Art Museum

Tacoma, WA

(Tacoma/Seattle is the place to go to see art glass)

Tacoma Art Museum

Chihuly Bridge of Glass Museum of Glass

Vancouver, BC Canada

Vancouver Art Gallery, BC Canada

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Western States

Cody, WY

Whitney Gallery of Western Art

Denver, CO

Denver Art Museum

Las Vegas, NV

Claude Monet at the Bellagio

Guggenheim at the Venetian Las Vegas Art Museum Wynn Collection, Las Vegas (Review article)

Mt. Carmel, UT

Maynard Dixon Museum

Norman, OK

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

Phoenix, AR

Phoenix Art Museum

Santa Fe, NM

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Scottsdale, AR

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts

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New York Area

Brooklyn

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Manhattan

Art Students League of New York

The Drawing Center Frick Collection, New York
Guggenheim Museum New York

The Jewish Museum New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
MoMA: The Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art

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Washington D.C. Area

Alexandra, VA

Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA

Baltimore, MD

The Baltimore Museum of Art

Washington DC

Corcoran Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection
Smithsonian Museums, D.C.
     Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
     Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
     National Portrait Gallery, D.C. (closed for renovation)
     National Museum of American Art D.C.
     National Museum of African Art

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Boston and Northeast Area

Bennington, VT

Bennington Museum, Vermont

Boston, MA

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Hartford, CT

Wadsworth Atheneum

Cambridge, MA

Harvard University Art Museums

Stockbridge, MA

Norman Rockwell Museum

Worcester, MA

Worcester Art Museum

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Pennsylvania

Doylestown, PA

James A. Michener Art Museum

Merion, PA (just outside of Philadelphia)

Barnes Foundation, Merion PA

Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Rodin Museum, Philadelphia

Pittsburg, PA

Carnegie Museum of Art

Andy Warhol Museum

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Mid-West

Chicago, IL

The Art Institute of Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art

Cleveland, OH

Cleveland Museum of Art

Detroit, MI

The Detroit Institute of Arts

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Poplar Bluff, MO

Margaret Harwell Art Museum

St. Louis, MO

Saint Louis Art Museum

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Southern States

Atlanta, GA

High Museum of Art

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art

Fort worth, TX

Kimbell Art Museum

The Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth

Houston, TX

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

New Orleans, LA

New Orleans Museum of Art

Richmond, VA

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts VMFA

Sarasota, FL

Ringling Museum of Art

St. Petersburg, FL

Salvador Dali Museum

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Comments/Misc.

Overall comments:
There are over 1,700 art museums and not-for-profit exhibition galleries plus some commercial galleries that are similar to museums. The following list contains about 90. My primary emphasis is American and European art, especially paintings from the 19th Century. Art works that people who attend the 20th St Gallery might enjoy.

The larger museums can have many temporary exhibits running at the same time. They can have satellite museums and lend portions of their collections to other locations. For instance in Las Vegas, The Wynn Collection and Guggenheim Las Vegas. There are always a number of traveling shows making the rounds. Many are "must see" events and require special ticketing and reservations.

With so much to see, travel being difficult, and museums hours limited, a good solution is the museum web site. It is possible to visit these museums on the computer screen. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some sites have virtual tours, but I have trouble getting most of them to work, lacking the right "plug-ins" or they are not worth the effort. At best they show what the interior looks like. See the Frick Collection, New Yor. It is fun to move from room to room. An ipix plug-in was needed. An unbiased, more or less, outside review of many exhibitions are posted on the internet, for instance: Wynn Collection. Las Vegas.

This list could have been increased by adding: Hearst Castle at San Simeon, Anchorage Museum of History and Arts, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, museums in Hawaii, many of the college museums, and many of the fine museums in Canada.

Trivia questions:
What is the largest portrait museum in the world?
The art museum having the most attendance?
The richest art museum?
The most seen popular exhibition last year?
How many museums are under the Smithsonian banner?
The smallest museum in square footage?
Which city has the "Museum Mile"?
What is the average percentage of museum cost is covered by admissions?
What is one of the most controversial museum/collection?
What are the most expensive pictures?
What is art by Wayne Thiebaud selling for?
What museum has the best collection of Impressionist & Post Impressionist art?
Name 40+ movies about artists and the art scene.

Answers below

Reference Books:
America's Art Museums by Suzanne Loebl 2002
     'A Traveler's Guide to Great Collections Large and Small'

Art Museum Exhibitions from The New York Times 2004
     'The essential guide for the traveling art lover'

Art Across America by Russell and Spenser 2000
     A Comprehensive Guide to American Art Museums and Exhibition Galleries'

Web Sites dealing with museums & galleries:
     AAM - American Association of Museums The museum association. All museum including art.
     ArtScene - Art, Museum, Gallery, Painting A guide to the art scene in Southern CA
     AskART.com A web site that tracks artist's auction prices. "The artist's Bluebook, a guide to 32,000 artists" The site charges a fee for some information. Information records on thousands of American artists
     Art Museum Network "Official web site of leading museums." Has news, links, sesarch to collections. 200 museums
     Museums and Museum Sites
     fine Art forum resource directory
     MuseumSpot.com On line museum network, all types of museums
     Art Museums An international index/links of major museums
     MOCA, on-line archives ''California Museums working with libraries and archives to increase and enhance access to cultural collections''.
     Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine Information of 125,000 works of art.
     This site will lead you to individual works in various museums
     AllPosters.com - Museum Posters Contains 26,000 pictures of museum images

     Inquiries to Yahoo and Google will yield millions of hits

National Gallery, Washington D.C. 6,000,000
MET New York 5,500,000
Museum of Fine Arts Boston unknown
MOMA New York 1,500,000
Chicago Art Institute 1,478,000
Museum of Fine Art Houston 1,100,000
Guggenheim, New York 925,000
Carneige Museum of Art 860,000
Los Angeles County LACMA 800,000
Philadelphia Museum of Art 800,000
Torpedo Factory Art Center 800,000
Hirshorn, Washington D.C. 784,000
San Francisco Fine Art Museums 750,000
Cleveland Museum of Art 631,000

"There is no offical list of museums by attendance, wealth, or size." American Association of Museums

Answers:

Web Site Rating
These web site ratings are arbitrary on my part. I personally go to museums to browse the art. At each web site I looked at current exhibitions and the collection(s). Sometimes the information is there but was not obvious quickly. I am interested in seeing pictures, a description of the artwork and some background on the artist. My personal interest is in American & Late European Art, specifically paintings. I took the size of the institution into account. A general rule seems to be, if the work changes often, I find text and a few pictures. If the museum showing is more or less static, the picture viewing is better. Commercial sites often do a good job. Museum sites have a lot of information that a viewer from another area might never be interested in. For an audience seeking images, the web makes sense. San Franciso Art Museums get 250,000 people a month looking at it. Only about 5% of Crocker's museum collection might be shown at one time. Their total collection is 10,000. Crocker's on going effort is to put all their collection online. Refer: Sacramento Bee July 5th, 2004 Scene pages E1 & E2, "Virtual Canvas" An great article about putting a collection on line.

VERY GOOD: Shows collection and exhibits in depth
GOOD: Gives a good idea of what is showing & in the collections
OK: Satisfactory, good idea of what museum has to offer
FAIR: Little information is there, confusing, out of date
INFORMATIONAL Basic information
No Website  

E-mail me directly to add your opinions, corrections, and exhibit information. xobeci@pacbell.net This is a 'work-in-progress' effort.
     Jim Ferry and The 20th St. Art Gallery

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