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Worcester Art Museum Established 1898 Location 55 Salisbury Street Worcester, Massachusetts Type Art museum Director James A. Welu [1] Website Worcester Art Museum The Worcester Art Museum, also known as WAM, houses over 35,000 works of art dating from antiquity to the present day, representing cultures from all over the world. The WAM opened in 1898 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is the second largest art museum in New England. [2] The WAM also has a café, museum shop, library, and a year round roster of classes for children and adults. [3] Contents 1 History and collection overview 1.1 Museum building highlights 2 Collection highlights 3 First Museum to Own Water Lilies 4 Side of the Building 5 References 6 External links // History and collection overview The Bathers, William Morris Hunt, Worcester Art Museum Worcester Art Museum (WAM) opened on May 10, 1898 in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was founded by Stephen Salisbury III, a Massachusetts state Senator and wealthy Worcester landowner. Together with a large donation from Salisbury’s estate and bequests, the Museum acquired its first important acquisitions. In 1901, John Chandler Bancroft, a wealthy Bostonian, bequeathed more than 3,000 Japanese prints. The Bancroft collection spans the history of woodcut printmaking in Japan, with particular strength in rare, early images from the late 17th and 18th centuries. Salisbury’s estate donation included many portraits commissioned by his family, as well as sculpture, furniture, and silver. These works, by artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Crawford, and Samuel F.B. Morse and the craftsmen Paul Revere, Edward Winslow, and Nathanial Hurd, constituted the nucleus of the American collections. The Museum's first professional director, Philip J. Gentner arrived in 1908. Louisa Dresser Campbell, one of Worcester Art Museum's most notable curators of collections was known for her acquisition of the Freake paintings, some of the museum's most famous American works. Museum building highlights Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton, Gilbert Stuart, Worcester Art Museum The Museum’s Classical Revival-style building was designed by Worcester architect Stephen C. Earle. In 1927, the Museum purchased a 12thcentury, French chapter house that was originally part of the Benedictine Priory of St. John at Le Bas-Nueil near Poitiers. Installed in 1932 and linked to the Museum in 1933 via the grand Renaissance Court, the chapter house was the first medieval building ever transported from Europe to America [4]. In 1933 alone, the Museum attracted 200,000 visitors. Decorating the Renaissance Court floor is unequivocally one of Worcester’s greatest ancient treasures – a group of Roman mosaics dating from the first through the sixth century A.D. that was excavated at Antioch in Syria. The Worcester Art Museum supported the excavation between 1932 and 1939 in partnership with universities and other Museums. The Museum building has expanded several times, in 1940, 1970 (Higgins Education Wing addition), and 1983 (Frances L. Hiatt Wing for special exhibitions; study and storage area for prints, drawings, and photographs; and an expanded conservation area). The Higgins Education Wing contains studios and classrooms, a professional printmaking studio, a computer studio, photography lab and an exhibition space for student works. Collection highlights Monhegan Island, George Wesley Bellows, Worcester Art Museum In addition to the Roman mosaic-laden Renaissance court and French chapter house, strengths of the permanent collection include collections of European and North American painting, prints, photographs, and drawings; Asian art; Greek and Roman sculpture and mosaics; and Contemporary art. European paintings include some fine Flemish Renaissance paintings, an El Greco, a Rembrandt, and a room of impressionist and 20thcentury works by the likes of Monet, Matisse, Renoir, Gauguin, and Kandinsky. The American painting collection includes works by Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, William Morris Hunt, Elizabeth Goodridge, among others. In the 20th century gallery, the Museum displays works by Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Joan Mitchell. Notable works include: El Greco, The Repentant Magdalene, about 1577 Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1908 and Waterloo Bridge, 1903 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, St. Bartholomew Paul Gauguin, The Brooding Woman, 1891 Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom, about 1833 Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of a Man in a Top Hat, 1882 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Coco Eating His Soup, 1905 Paul Cezanne, Study for The Cardplayers, 1890-1892 Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Fernande Olivier, 1906 First Museum to Own Water Lilies Worcester Art Museum had a pioneering role in the recognition of French painter and founder of Impressionism, Claude Monet (1840 – 1926). It is the first museum in the world to have purchased a Water Lilies painting, and it is also the first American museum to purchase two Monets. Director Philip Gentner purchased Water Lilies (1908, oil on canvas, 37 1/4 in x 35 3/8 in) and Waterloo Bridge (1903, oil on canvas) in 1910 after he viewed them at an art show in Paris. He purchased both paintings for US$8,000. Worcester Art Museum’s 1910 acquisition of contemporary art serves the institution well, as original Monet paintings now sell for millions of dollars at art auctions (an original Waterlilies painting sold for $36.5 million at a Sotheby’s auction in 2007[5]). However, Impressionism was not yet popular in the early 20th century, and few art museums were purchasing Impressionist paintings. The Museum is celebrating the 100th anniversary of owning Water Lilies and Waterloo Bridge in 2010. Side of the Building Lancaster Street side of the museum Sally, circa 1907, has graced the Lancaster Street side of the Museum since 2005. An icon at WAM, Sally appears with the traditional Greek revival arch framing her portrait, and serves as an introduction to the Museum’s collection. This 15 ft X 8 ft outdoor wall mural is a reproduction of the original painting by Boston Impressionist Joseph DeCamp (1858-1923). The original oil on canvas measures 26 in. x 23 in and featured in the Museum’s collection. The Museum’s reproduction of Sally won a Certificate of Excellence from the 2007 American Inhouse Design Awards, sponsored by Graphic Design USA Magazine .[6] References ^ From the Director of the Worcester Art Museum ^ http://tfaoi.org/newsmu/nmus52.htm Traditional Fine Arts Organization WAM site ^ Worcester Art Museum: About, ARTINFO, 2008, http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/19806/6347/about/worcester-art-museum-worcester/, retrieved 2008-07-24  From the Director of the Worcester Art Museum http://tfaoi.org/newsmu/nmus52.htm Traditional Fine Arts Organization WORCESTER ART MUSEUM site Worcester Art Museum: About, ARTINFO, 2008, http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/19806/6347/about/worcester-art-Museum-worcester/, retrieved 2008-07-24 http://www.worcesterart.org/Information/from_the_director.html "From the Director" accessed on 2008-12-13 Vogel, C. (2008, May 07). The New York Times. Retrieved June 22, 2010, from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/nyregion/07auction.html ICL Imaging. (2007, May 16). News for Large Format Printing: ICL-Produced Mural Wins Industry Award. Retrieved June 22, 2010, from http://www.icl-imaging.com/news-mural.html External links Official Museum Website Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Worcester Art Museum