![]() ![]() In the summer of 2017, a light sculpture by Jim Sanborn based upon the history of imaging, photography, and Rochester was installed on the grounds. In 2013, the Centennial Sculpture Park enhanced MAG’s public face with four site-specific commissions by Wendell Castle, Jackie Ferrera, Tom Otterness and Albert Paley. Masterpieces by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, and Henri Matisse are visitor favorites. The 18th-century collection is particularly strong in British and French portraiture, while the 19th-century collection features academic and Impressionist masters as well as work from the Barbizon and Hague schools. Many of the paintings belonged to Kodak founder George Eastman, including MAG’s iconic Rembrandt portrait. The 17th-century Dutch and Flemish collection contains Old Master paintings, prints, and decorative arts. Renaissance works include paintings by Tintoretto, Raffaellino del Garbo, and Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, while the Italian Baroque era is represented by paintings by van Dyck, El Greco, and Luca Giordano. The medieval collection includes textiles, sculpture, painting, and metalwork from European Christendom. In fact, MAG’s holdings of prints, drawings, photographs, and books and manuscripts form almost half of the permanent collection. The nearby Asian Art gallery showcases paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts of all eras, including a rotating selection of Chinese and Japanese scrolls, Indian miniature paintings, and Japanese prints. The At the Crossroads gallery brings together works from the ancient Middle East and the Islamic world. One highlight is an important set of Egyptian coffins made for the nobleman Pa-debehu-Aset. Berkeley Gallery of Ancient Art on the second floor. MAG’s extensive collection of Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and Egyptian works is explored in the Helen H. MAG’s folk and decorative arts collection includes early Rochester-area portraits by itinerant artists, vernacular sculpture, trade signs and weathervanes, and a Grandma Moses landscape. Durand, Winslow Homer, and Lily Martin Spencer early 20th-century works by artists including Thomas Hart Benton, Elizabeth Catlett, Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, and John Sloan a major collection of sculptures by Gaston Lachaise and late-20th century masterworks by Josef Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Isamu Noguchi and Jackson Pollock. ![]() Highlights include 19th-century paintings by artists including Asher B. The collection of American art is also featured in galleries throughout the first floor and ranges from the colonial period to the present. ![]() Representing cultures from around the world and across millennia, the permanent collection is renowned for its breadth and its quality.Įxhibited on the first floor are the museum’s collections of Indigenous art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, including a major work by Yoruba sculptor, Olowe of Ise. Since its founding in 1913, the Memorial Art Gallery’s (MAG) collection has grown to more than 13,000 works of art. The Permanent Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery – A Rochester Treasure ![]()
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