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Portland Museum of Art

Index Portland Museum of Art

The Portland Museum of Art, or PMA, is the largest and oldest public art institution in the U.S. state of Maine. [1]

53 relations: Abraham Walkowitz, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Andrew Wyeth, Art museum, Art of Europe, Arts District (Portland, Maine), Auguste Rodin, Beaux-Arts architecture, Bequest, Charles Shipman Payson, Charles Shipman Payson Building, Childe Hassam, Claude Monet, Collection (artwork), Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Fitz Henry Lane, Fundraising, George Bellows, Hamilton Easter Field, Historic preservation, Impressionism, Jamie Wyeth, Joan Whitney Payson, John Calvin Stevens, John Greenleaf Cloudman, John Marin, L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries, Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, Louise Nevelson, Maine, Marsden Hartley, Mary Cassatt, McLellan-Sweat Mansion, N. C. Wyeth, New England, New York City, Pablo Picasso, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Philanthropy, Portland, Maine, Post-Impressionism, René Magritte, Scott M. Black, Scott Simons Architects, Socialite, Strategic planning, Surrealism, U.S. state, United States House of Representatives, ..., Visual art of the United States, Whitney family, Winslow Homer. Expand index (3 more) »

Abraham Walkowitz

Abraham Walkowitz (March 28, 1878 - January 27, 1965) was an American painter grouped in with early American Modernists working in the Modernist style.

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Alfred Thompson Bricher

Alfred Thompson Bricher (April 10, 1837 – September 30, 1908) was a painter associated with White Mountain art and the Hudson River School.

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Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Newell Wyeth (July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style.

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Art museum

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.

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Art of Europe

The art of Europe, or Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe.

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Arts District (Portland, Maine)

The Arts District of Portland, Maine, USA, covers a large part of upper Congress Street towards the West End.

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Auguste Rodin

François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor.

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Beaux-Arts architecture

Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.

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Bequest

A bequest is property given by will.

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Charles Shipman Payson

Charles Shipman Payson (October 16, 1898 – May 5, 1985, aged 86) was the owner of the New York Mets of the National League from through.

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Charles Shipman Payson Building

The Charles Shipman Payson Building is the most recent expansion of the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Portland, Maine, located on the corner of High Street and Congress Square.

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Childe Hassam

Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes.

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Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.

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Collection (artwork)

A museum is distinguished by a collection of often unique objects that forms the core of its activities for exhibitions, education, research, etc.

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Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas (or; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas,; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.

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Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

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Fitz Henry Lane

Fitz Henry Lane (born Nathaniel Rogers Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane) (December 19, 1804 – August 14, 1865) was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light.

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Fundraising

Fundraising or fund raising (also known as "development") is the process of gathering voluntary contributions of money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies (see also crowd funding).

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George Bellows

George Wesley Bellows (August 12 or August 19, 1882 – January 8, 1925) was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City, becoming, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his generation".

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Hamilton Easter Field

Hamilton Easter Field (1873–1922) was an American artist, art patron, connoisseur, and teacher, as well as critic, publisher, and dealer.

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Historic preservation

Historic preservation (US), heritage preservation or heritage conservation (UK), is an endeavour that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance.

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Impressionism

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterised by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

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Jamie Wyeth

James Browning Wyeth (born July 6, 1946) is a contemporary American realist painter, son of Andrew Wyeth, and grandson of N.C. Wyeth.

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Joan Whitney Payson

Joan Whitney Payson (February 5, 1903 – October 4, 1975) was an American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family.

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John Calvin Stevens

John Calvin Stevens (October 8, 1855 – January 25, 1940) was an American architect who worked in the Shingle Style, in which he was a major innovator, and the Colonial Revival style.

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John Greenleaf Cloudman

John Greenleaf Cloudman (sometimes referred to as Cloutman) was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, one of seven children, on December 17, 1813 to David P. Cloudman and Susan D. Cloudman (1792–1858).

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John Marin

John Marin (December 23, 1870 – October 2, 1953) was an early American modernist artist.

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L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries

The L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries are a series of art galleries that are part of the Portland Museum of Art, which is located in the Arts District of Portland, Maine.

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Lorenzo De Medici Sweat

Lorenzo De Medici Sweat (May 26, 1818 – July 26, 1898) was a U.S. Representative from Maine.

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Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures.

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Maine

Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 – September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.

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Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker.

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McLellan-Sweat Mansion

The McLellan-Sweat Mansion (or The McLellan House) is a historic house museum on High Street in Portland, Maine.

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N. C. Wyeth

Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is an American architectural firm based in New York City, with major projects in more than a hundred cities around the world. Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Retrieved 2012-09-07. Its work is noted for excellence in design. The American Institute of Architects. Retrieved 2012-09-06. Brandeis University. Retrieved 2012-09-05. Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Retrieved 2012-09-05. The firm provides a full range of architectural services, as well as planning and urban design. Projects designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners have received more than 200 awards for design excellence, including 24 AIA National Honor Awards. In addition, the firm has been recognized numerous times for design excellence in the totality of its practice. The firm has changed names twice.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy means the love of humanity.

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Portland, Maine

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a population of 67,067 as of 2017.

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Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism.

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René Magritte

René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist.

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Scott M. Black

Scott M. Black is an American investor, philanthropist and art collector.

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Scott Simons Architects

Scott Simons Architects (SSA) is an ten-person (four partners & six staff) architecture, design, and planning firm located in Portland, Maine.

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Socialite

A socialite is a person (usually from a privileged, wealthy, or aristocratic background) who has a wide reputation and a high position in society.

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Strategic planning

Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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Visual art of the United States

Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by American artists.

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Whitney family

The Whitney family is an American family notable for their social prominence, wealth, business enterprises and philanthropy, founded by John Whitney (1592–1673), who came from London, England to Watertown, Massachusetts in 1635.

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Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Museum_of_Art

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