Boca Raton Museum of Art

Museum in Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Museum of Art

Location within Florida

Established| 1940s[1]
Location| 501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, Florida
Mizner Park
Coordinates| 26°21′23″N 80°05′09″W﻿ / ﻿26.356338°N 80.085838°W﻿ / 26.356338; -80.085838
Type| Art[2]
Director| Irvin Lippman[2][3]
Curator| Kathleen Goncharov
Kelli Bodle
Website| bocamuseum.org

Founded by artists, the Boca Raton Museum of Art was established in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton. The organization has grown to encompass an Art School, Guild, Store, and Museum with permanent collections of contemporary art, photography, non-western art, glass, and sculpture, as well as a diverse selection of special exhibitions. The museum is located at 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, Florida in Mizner Park.

## About

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The Boca Museum of Art features an assortment of traveling exhibitions and permanent collections from established and rising artists including works of art by a number of the great masters. It offers educational programs, artist lectures, films, classes for children, and events.[4] The museums see more than 200,000 patrons annually, making it a major cultural institution in Boca Raton and the surrounding area. The museum promotes sketching in the galleries and even provides clipboards, sketchbooks, and pencils at the front desk.[5] The Boca Raton Museum of Art is a Blue Star museum, meaning it offers free admission to active duty military and their families between Memorial Day and Labor Day.[6] The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. A newsletter titled "Muse" is published bi-annually and is available for download on the museum's website.[7]

## Permanent Collection

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Native Flag By Mateo Blanco 2023 Boca Raton Museum of Art Collection

* 19th- and 20th-century European and American painting, drawings and sculpture
* The Dr. & Mrs. John J. Mayers Collection of Modern Masters (including Degas, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso, Seurat and others)
* After Minimalism: Abstract Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s
* The Art of Artifacts of West Africa
* The Jean and David Colker Collection of Pre-Columbian art and Selections from the Photography Collection[4]
* Sculpture Gardens Collections. More than 30 sculptures are featured at the museum and the art school*

## Artists in the collection

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* Arman
* Samuel Bak
* Will Barnet
* Mateo Blanco
* Jennifer Bartlett
* Georg Baselitz
* Leonard Baskin
* Rudolf Bauer
* George Bellows
* Isabel Bishop
* Oscar Florianus Bluemner
* Ilya Bolotowsky
* Graciela Rodo Boulanger
* Stanley Boxer
* Georges Braque
* Jack Bush
* Alexander Calder
* Anthony Caro
* Leonora Carrington
* Lynn Chadwick
* Marc Chagall
* John Chamberlain
* Mihail Chemiakin
* Jules Chéret
* Sandro Chia
* Judy Chicago
* Dale Chihuly
* Dan Christensen
* Christo and Jeanne-Claude
* Chryssa
* Howard Chandler Christy
* Chuck Close
* George Cohen
* John Constable
* Lovis Corinth
* Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo
* Bill Crawford
* Carlos Cruz-Díez
* José Luis Cuevas
* Allan D'Arcangelo
* Haydn Llewellyn Davies
* Arthur Bowen Davies
* Gene Davis
* Stuart Davis
* Adolf Dehn
* Elaine de Kooning
* Sonia Delaunay
* Charles Demuth
* Lesley Dill
* Jim Dine
* Stevan Dohanos
* Enrico Donati
* Roland Dorcely
* Jean Dubuffet
* William R. Dunlap
* Albrecht Dürer
* Edouard Duval-Carrié
* Friedel Dzubas
* Fred Ellis
* Jimmy Ernst
* Max Ernst
* Erté
* M. C. Escher
* Richard Estes
* Lyonel Feininger
* Georges de Feure
* Ernest Fiene
* Leonor Fini
* Eric Fischl
* Audrey Flack
* Jean-Michel Folon
* Sam Francis
* William Glackens
* Nancy Graves
* Cleve Gray
* Stephen Greene
* Al Held
* John Raymond Henry
* Jasper Johns
* Wolf Kahn
* Alex Katz
* Leon Kroll
* Yasuo Kuniyoshi
* Ronnie Landfield
* John Levee
* Pat Lipsky
* Conrad Marca-Relli
* John Marin
* Knox Martin
* John Matos
* Reuben Nakian
* Robert Natkin
* Louise Nevelson
* Costantino Nivola
* Guy Pene du Bois
* Richard Pousette-Dart
* Maurice Prendergast
* David Remfry
* Paul Reed
* I. Rice Pereira
* Betye Saar
* Italo Scanga
* Jacques Soisson
* Julian Stanczak
* Akio Takamori
* Jacques Villon
* Jerry Weiss
* Adja Yunkers

## Gallery

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* Valerio Adami exhibition

## The Art School

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The Boca Raton Museum of Art offers multiple classes through its art school, the museum's teaching branch. The art school is located at the museum's original Palmetto Park Road location. There are classes available for both novice and experienced artists. The variety of classes range from photography, to weaving, to ceramics, to jewelry making. A summer art camp for ages five to twelve is also offered.[8]

## The Artists' Guild

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The guild is an auxiliary of the Boca Raton Museum of Art. It was created by the museum's board of trustees in 1984. The guild holds over twenty exhibitions throughout the year and the proceeds from the art sales go to the museum. The guild is open to both artists and lovers of art.[9]

## References

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1. ^ "Celebrating 55 Years - The Boca Museum of Art" Archived October 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Florida History & the Arts, Spring 2006. Retrieved on November 05, 2007.
2. ^ a b MuseumsUSA. "Boca Museum of Art Boca Raton, Florida", MuseumsUSA website, 2007. Retrieved on November 05, 2007.
3. ^ Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida Appoints Irvin Lippman Executive Director
4. ^ a b Boca Museum of Art: About, ARTINFO, 2008, archived from the original on 2008-09-25, retrieved 2008-07-11
5. ^ "Visit - Museum | Boca Raton Museum of Art". Archived from the original on 2020-04-23. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
6. ^ "Blue Star Museums | NEA". Archived from the original on 2018-05-20. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
7. ^ "Muse Newsletter | Boca Raton Museum of Art". Archived from the original on 2018-07-02. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
8. ^ "About | Boca Raton Museum of Art". Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
9. ^ "Home". Archived from the original on 2019-02-23. Retrieved 2016-07-19.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boca Raton Museum of Art.

* Boca Museum of Art (official website)
* "Boca Raton Museum Appoints Irvin Lippman Executive Director", Boca Raton Tribune.
* "Celebrating 55 Years - The Boca Raton Museum of Art", Florida History & the Arts, Spring 2006. This article includes a good history of the museum.

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