March 25, 2010
The European Art Department at VMFA comprises more than 10,000 objects in all media dating from the Early Middle Ages to the 20th Century, including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts and works on paper. It includes the Mellon Collections of British Sporting Art, French Art, American Sporting and Historical Art, and Jewelry and objects by Jean Schlumberger.
Article Categories: Collections, Early 20th-Century European Art, European Art, and VMFA News
March 4, 2010
VMFA is an important center for the study of American visual culture
Article Categories: American Art and Collections
Related Exhibitions: American Art from the McGlothlin Collection and American Quilts: Selections from the Winterthur Collection
March 4, 2010
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts owns 208 Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels, textiles, sculptures and metalwork objects from Meso, Central and South America as part of its Ancient American Art Collection.
Mar 01, 2011
Article Categories: Ancient American Art and Collections
Related Exhibitions: Say What? How Ancient Writing Began
March 3, 2010
Collection includes objects from Egyptian, Near Eastern, Aegean, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Byzantine cultures
Article Categories: Ancient Art, Collections, and Egyptian
Related Exhibitions: Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria, Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit, and The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
March 3, 2010
One of the most significant public collections outside Paris of Art Nouveau and Art Déco
Article Categories: Art Deco & Art Nouveau and Collections
October 9, 2009
2009-10-09 The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has built its collections entirely by private patronage since its 1936 opening in the midst of the Great Depression. VMFA continues to position itself successfully for a healthy, vibrant future, through support from the Commonwealth of Virginia an
Article Categories: Expansion
Related Exhibitions: Early 20th-Century European, German Expressionist Art: Selections from the Fischer Collection, and Xu Bing: Tobacco Project
August 5, 2009
2009-08-05 200 Works from Museum’s Collection To Be Represented in Artist’s New Painting When the doors of the expanded Virginia Museum of Fine Arts open on May 1, the first work of art that visitors will see is “Art History is Not Linear (VMFA),” a Ryan McGinness painting commissioned
Article Categories: Expansion
Related Exhibitions: American Art from the McGlothlin Collection and Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit
October 29, 2008
2008-10-29 The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts a $75,000 grant to be used to install the museum’s expanded Modern and Contemporary collection. VMFA is in the midst of a massive expansion project that will add more than 165,000 square feet of space
Article Categories: Expansion