Weisman Art Museum
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| Established | 1934 |
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| Location | East Bank, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 44°58′22″N 93°14′17″W / 44.97278°N 93.23806°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Collection size | 20,000+ |
| Director | Lyndel King |
| Architect | Frank Gehry |
| Public transit access | Coffman Memorial Union, Metro Transit/SouthWest Transit |
| Website | wam.umn.edu |
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum located on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. A teaching museum for the university since 1934, the museum is named for Frederick R. Weisman, and was designed by Frank Gehry. Often called a "modern art museum," the 25,000+ image collection has large collections of Marsden Hartley, Alfred Maurer, Charles Biederman, Native American Mimbres pottery, and traditional Korean furniture.
Frederick R. Weisman
Frederick R. Weisman was a Minneapolis native who became well known as an art collector in Los Angeles, and died in 1994. There is another Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art on the campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Additionally, there is the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Los Angeles estate designed to serve as a showcase for his personal collection of 20th-century art. When he opened the art collection at his Los Angeles estate to the public, he wanted to share the experience of living with art— rather than the usual, more formal protocol of seeing art in a gallery or museum.
The Weisman Foundation estate, located in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, is a two-story Mediterranean Revival house designed in the late 1920s by Los Angeles architect Gordon B. Kaufmann. The Weisman home exhibits the fine craftsmanship characteristic of the period, including custom decorative treatments on the walls and ceilings. Today the Foundation estate, annex, and surrounding gardens is made accessible to the public by appointment only on guided tours.[1]
Museum building
The museum's building, designed by architect Frank Gehry,[2] was completed in 1993. The stainless steel skin was fabricated and installed by the A. Zahner Company, a frequent collaborator with Gehry's office.[3]
The building is one of the major landmarks on campus, situated on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River at the east end of the Washington Avenue Bridge. The building presents two faces, depending on which side it is viewed from. From the campus side, it presents a brick facade that blends with the existing brick and sandstone buildings. On the opposite side, is an abstraction of a waterfall and a fish in curving and angular brushed steel sheets.[2]
Gallery
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A closeup image of the Frank Gehry-designed building -
The entrance to the museum -
Alfred Maurer's Standing Female Nude (1927-1928) is part of the museum's collection
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References
- ^ Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, 2007
- ^ a b "University of Minnesota Art Museum". Progressive Architecture. 73 (1): 74–5. January 1992.
- ^ Stafford, Margaret (November 7, 2004). "Kansas City-based metals company builds international reputation". LJWorld.
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External links
- Official website
- Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum records, University Archives, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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- Frank Gehry buildings
- Museums in Minneapolis
- Art museums in Minnesota
- University museums in Minnesota
- Modern art museums in the United States
- Contemporary crafts museums in the United States
- University of Minnesota
- Buildings and structures completed in 1993
- Deconstructivism
- Expressionist architecture
- Postmodern architecture in the United States
- Art museums established in 1934
- 1934 establishments in Minnesota