MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Bissonnet Houston
Houston, TX 77005
USA
city map
hotel accommodation
|
| |
| tel |
+1 713 6397540 |
| tel |
+1 713 6397300 |
| fax |
+1 713 6397597 |
|
|
|
|
| |
Opening hours:
Tu, We 10:00-17:00
Th 10:00-21:00
Fr, Sa 10:00-19:00
Su 12:00-19:00
|
|
|
|
 Institution's artists also shown at: |
| Institution |
№ |
№ |
| |
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
380 |
95 |
| |
The National Gallery of Art, USA |
255 |
78 |
| |
Leo Castelli Gallery, USA |
222 |
22 |
| |
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA |
140 |
91 |
| |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA |
134 |
78 |
|
| |
Public exhibitions 1
24.02. - 27.05. (4 days remaining)
|
| |
|
Profile |
|---|
|
Foundation year: 1924
|
|
Director(s): Peter C. Marzio (Director)
|
|
| |
|
Artists |
|---|
Ansel Adams 1902-1984, US
Vasco Aráujo 1975, PT
Ben Aronson 1958, US
John James Audubon 1785-1851, US
Jo Baer 1929, US
John Baldessari 1931, US
William Baziotes 1912-1963, US
Jacques Bellange 1575-1616, FR
Charif Benhelima 1967, BE
Lou Bernstein 1911-2005, US
Jayne Hinds Bidaut 1965, US
John Biggers 1924-2001, US
Oliver Boberg 1965, DE
Pierre Bonnard 1867-1947, FR
Sandro Botticelli 1445-1510, IT
William Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905, FR
Louise Bourgeois 1911-2010, FR
Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957, RO
Brassaï 1899-1984, RO
Frank Breuer 1963, DE
James Brooks 1906-1992, US
Pieter Brueghel 1564-1638, BE
Gustave Caillebotte 1848-1894, FR
Alexander Calder 1898-1976, US
Canaletto 1697-1768, IT
Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-2004, FR
Paul Cézanne 1839-1906, FR
Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin 1699-1779, FR
William Merritt Chase 1849-1916, US
Natalya & Valery Cherkashin RU
Kyungwoo Chun 1969, KR
Frederic Edwin Church 1826-1900, US
Alvin Langdon Coburn 1882-1966, US
Thomas Cole 1801-1848, US
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1796-1875, FR
Lucas Cranach the Elder 1472-1553, DE
Carlos Cruz-Diez 1923, VE
Enzo Cucchi 1949, IT
Robert H. Cumming 1943, US
Roy DeCarava 1919-2009, US
Edgar Degas 1834-1917, FR
André Dérain 1880-1954, FR
Rackstraw Downes 1939, UK
Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528, DE
William Eggleston 1939, US
Lalla Essaydi 1956, MA
Dennis Fagan
Eric Fischl 1948, US
David Fokos 1960, US
Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1732-1806, FR
Robert Frank 1924, CH, US
Helen Frankenthaler 1928-2011, US
Thomas Gainsborough 1727-1788, UK
Gego 1912-1994, DE, VE
Orazio Gentileschi 1562-1639, IT
Jean-Léon Gérôme 1824-1904, FR
Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966, CH
Ewan Gibbs 1973, UK
Arshile Gorky 1905-1948, US
Adolph Gottlieb 1903-1974, US
Francisco de Goya 1746-1828, ES
Lisa Gralnick 1956, US
Peter Granser 1971, DE
Cynthia Greig 1959, US
Vadim Gushchin 1963, RU
Frans Hals 1582-1666, BE
Childe Hassam 1859-1935, US
John Heartfield 1891-1968, DE
Germán Herrera
Christian Herter 1839-1883, DE
Gustave Herter 1830-1898, DE
Lewis Hine 1874-1940, US
Hans Hofmann 1880-1966, US
Winslow Homer 1836-1910, US
Dorothy Hood 1919-2000, US
Simen Johan 1973, NO
Jasper Johns 1930, US
Dave Jordano 1948, US
Emily Joyce 1976, US
Donald Judd 1928-1994, US
Thomas Kellner 1966, DE
Ellsworth Kelly 1923, US
André Kertész 1894-1985, HU
Paul Klee 1879-1940, DE, CH
Franz Kline 1910-1962, US
Max Klinger 1857-1920, DE
Joachim Koester 1964, DK
Svetlana & Igor Kopystiansky , US
Lee Krasner 1908-1984, US
Fernand Léger 1881-1955, FR
Laura Letinsky 1962, CA
Silvia Levenson 1957, AR
Sherrie Levine 1947, US
Robert Lobe 1945, US
Frederick William MacMonnies 1863-1937, US
Aristide Maillol 1861-1944, FR
Édouard Manet 1832-1883, FR
Julia Mangold 1966, DE
Paul Manship 1886-1966, US
Brice Marden 1938, US
Agnes Martin 1912-2004, CA
Maria Martinez-Cañas 1960, CU
Henri Matisse 1869-1954, FR
Francisco Matto 1911-1995, UY
Hans Memling 1433-1494
Adolph Menzel 1815-1905, DE
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886-1969, DE
László Moholy-Nagy 1895-1946, HU
Luis Molina Pantin 1969, VE
Piet Mondrian 1872-1944, NL
Claude Monet 1840-1926, FR
Robert Motherwell 1915-1991, US
Edvard Munch 1863-1944, NO
Thomas Nast 1840-1902, US
Kenneth Noland 1924-2010, US
Magdelene Odundo 1950, KE
Claes Oldenburg 1929, SE, US
Joost van Oss 1956, NL
Kevin O'Connell 1958, US
Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986, US
Hyung-Geun Park 1973, KR
Charles Willson Peale 1741-1827, US
Michael Petry 1960, US
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, ES
Ivan Pinkava 1961, CZ
Camille Pissarro 1830-1903, FR
Candace Plummer Gaudiani 1945, US
Jackson Pollock 1912-1956, US
Richard Pousette-Dart 1916-1992, US
Barbara Probst 1964, DE
David Rabinowitch 1943, CA
Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008, US
Man Ray 1890-1976, US
Odilon Redon 1840-1916, FR
Peter Reginato 1945, US
Frederic Remington 1861-1909, US
Guido Reni 1575-1642, IT
Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919, FR
Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792, UK
Frances Richardson 1965, UK
Rembrandt van Rijn 1606-1669, NL
Alexander Rodchenko 1891-1956, RU
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917, FR
James Rosenquist 1933, US
Théodore Rousseau 1812-1867, FR
Thomas Ruff 1958, DE
Graciela Sacco 1956, AR
Luiz Sacilotto 1924-2003, BR
Niki de Saint Phalle 1930-2002, FR
John Singer Sargent 1856-1925, US
Christian Schad 1894-1982, DE
Hans-Christian Schink 1961, DE
Sean Scully 1945, IE
Milos Sejn 1947, CZ
Georges Seurat 1859-1891, FR
Stephen Shore 1947, US
Lorna Simpson 1960, US
Damien Smith 1969, CA
David Smith 1906-1965, US
W. Eugene Smith 1918-1978, US
Tracey Snelling 1970, US
Alec Soth 1969, US
Doug & Mike Starn US
Edward Steichen 1879-1973, US
Paul Strand 1890-1976, US
Gilbert Stuart 1755-1828, US
Josef Sudek 1896-1976, CZ
James Surls 1943, US
Madoka Takagi 1956
David Taylor 1965, US
Louis Comfort Tiffany US
Jean Tinguely 1925-1991, CH
Milagros de la Torre 1965, PE
Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, UY
James Turrell 1943, US
Jack Tworkov 1900-1982, US
Brian Ulrich 1971, US
Édouard Jean Vuillard 1868-1940, FR
Andy Warhol 1928-1987, US
Edward Weston 1886-1958, US
Robert Yoder 1962, US
James van der Zee 1886-1983, US
Larry Zox 1936-2006, US
|
|
| |
Previous Exhibitions 185
2013
| |
 | The Abstract Impulse: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections |
| |
 | Princes & Paupers: The Art of Jacques Callot |
2012
| |
| War/photography: Images Of Armed Conflict And Its Aftermath |
| |
| Scandinavian Design |
| |
| Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York |
| |
| Unrivalled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art |
| |
| Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London |
| |
| Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini |
| |
| Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students, and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection |
| |
| Egyptomania |
| |
| Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage |
| |
| Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst |
| |
| Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection |
| |
| Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski |
| |
| Snail Mail |
2011
| |
| Visions of Saints |
| |
| Highlights of the Peter Blum Edition Archive |
| |
| Matthew Buckingham “Where Will We Live?” |
| |
| Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection |
| |
| New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection |
| |
| Selected Prints By Robert Rauschenberg From The Mfah Collection |
| |
| Acid on Metal: The Art of Etching and Aquatint |
| |
| Working in the Abstract: Rethinking the Literal |
| |
| The Spirit of Modernism: The John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
| |
| Second Nature: Contemporary Landscapes From The Mfah Collection |
| |
| Helmut Newton: White Women - Sleepless Nights - Big Nudes |
| |
| Beauty, Humor, and Social Justice: Gifts from Joan Morgenstern |
| |
| Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland |
| |
| Simpson Kalisher: The Alienated Photographer |
| |
| Charles Ledray: Workworkworkworkwork |
| |
| Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph |
| |
| Circa 1900: Decorative Arts at the Turn of the Century |
| |
| Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art |
| |
| Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection |
| |
| Richard Diebenkorn: Three Works On Paper In The Mfah Collection |
| |
| Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time |
| |
| Pasted Papers: The Art of Collage |
2010
| |
| Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art |
| |
| German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann—Corinth—Slevogt |
| |
| Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro |
| |
| The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture |
| |
| Alice Neel: Painted Truths |
| |
| Liquid Lines: Exploring the Language of Contemporary Metal |
| |
| Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection |
| |
| Prendergast in Italy |
| |
| Sargent and the Sea |
2009
| |
| Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea |
| |
| Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography |
| |
| Joaquín Torres-García: Paintings in Houston Collections |
| |
| Reduced Visibility |
| |
| Painting the Cosmos: Science and the Art of Frederic Edwin Church |
| |
| North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection |
| |
| Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988—2008 |
| |
| Ways of Seeing: Photography of Ishimoto Yasuhiro |
| |
| Tunga: Lezart |
2008
 |
| Equivalence: Acts of Translation in Contemporary Art |
 |
| I Still Believe in Tomorrow: Contemporary Video from Asia |
| |
| I Still Believe in Tomorrow: Contemporary Video from Asia |
| |
| The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Selections from The Atlas Group Archive |
| |
| The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell |
| |
| END GAME - British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Family Collection |
| |
| Farouk Hosny: The Energy of Abstraction |
| |
| John Alexander: A Retrospective |
| |
| Miwa Yanagi—Deutsche Bank Collection |
| |
| Photographs by Bill Brandt: A Sense of Wonder |
| |
| Where Clouds Disperse: Ink Paintings by Suh Se-ok |
| |
| Passionate Vision: Celebrating the Life and Photographic Work of Beaumont Newhall |
2007
| |
| Nan Goldin: Stories Retold |
| |
| Themes and Variations in Painting and Sculpture |
| |
| RED HOT — Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection |
| |
| Brett Weston: Natural Abstractions |
| |
| War and Remembrance |
| |
| The Great Wall of China: Photographs by Chen Changfen |
|
| The Bruce and Diane Halle Collection |
|
| The Masterpieces of French Painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
2006
|
| Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Color |
|
| The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950 |
|
| Bierstadt to O´Keeffe: Highlights from the Stark Museum of Art |
|
| Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today |
|
| The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory |
|
| Crafting a Collection |
|
| Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994 |
|
| Norman Rockwell -The Problem We All Live With |
|
| Courbet and the Modern Landscape |
|
| John Szarkowski: Photographs |
|
| Gee´s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt |
|
| Out of the Life of Bert L. Long, Jr. |
|
| Bringing Shadows to Light: Contemporary Argentine Photography |
|
| Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994 |
|
| Take One |
|
| Joseph Havel: A Decade of Sculpture 1996-2006 |
|
| Tom Wesselmann and Roy Lichtenstein: American Pop |
|
| Mark Seliger - In My Stairwell |
|
| Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art |
|
| 2 Women Look West: Photographs of King Ranch by Helen C. Kleberg & Toni Frissell |
|
| Xul Solar: Visions and Revelations |
|
| From the Printed Page: Photographs from the MFAH Collection |
|
| Andrea Bowers - Letters to an Army of Three |
2005
|
| Basquiat |
|
| Jasper Johns: Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
|
| Indelible Images (trafficking between Life and Death) |
|
| Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church |
|
| Eye on Third Ward: Jack Yates High School Photography |
|
| Thornton Dial in the 21st Century |
|
| Restless |
|
| Recent Accessions in Modern and Contemporary Design |
|
| Brought to Light: Recent Acquisitions in Latin American Art |
|
| Acquisitions of the Last Five Years: Selections of Modern and Contemporary Art |
|
| Gego - Between Transparency and the Invisible |
| |
| Sports Photography from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
|
| Cy Twombly - Lepanto |
|
| The Latino Baseball Story: Photographs by José Luis Villegas |
|
| Photographs by Jim Dow: Baseball Stadiums, 1980—1982 |
|
| Notes from a Child´s Odyssey: The Art of Kermit Oliver |
|
| Alfredo Jaar - The Eyes of Gutete Emerita |
|
| Turning Light into Silver |
|
| Masterworks of Lithography |
|
| Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection |
|
| Rick Lowe - Toward Social Sculpture |
2004
|
| Kenneth Noland - The Nature of Color |
|
| Cartier design viewed by Ettore Sottsass |
|
| Dahomey, 1967: Photographs by Irving Penn |
|
| George Catlin and His Indian Gallery |
|
| Taos Modern: Paintings by W. H. Dunton from the Stark Museum of Art |
|
| Aaron Siskind: Centennial Celebration |
|
| Diane Arbus Revelations |
|
| Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America |
|
| Jasper Johns and Richard Serra: Drawings from a New York Collection |
|
| Beyond Ornament: Contemporary Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection |
|
| Manual: Two Worlds - The Collaboration of Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom |
| |
| A Spirited Vision: Highlights of the Bequest of Caroline Wiess Law |
2003
|
| The Passionate Adventure of the Real: Collage, Assemblage and the Object in 20th |
|
| First Down Houston: The Birth of an NFL Franchise |
|
| The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings & Sculp |
|
| Luca Buvoli: Flying Preparatory Exercises |
|
| The American Landscape East to West: Themes in Painting and Photography, 1780-19 |
|
| Western Landscapes by Albert Bierstadt & Thomas Moran from Stark Museum of Art |
|
| Beyond Ornament: Contemporary Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection |
|
| Masterworks on Paper from the Edward R. Broida Collection |
|
| Selections from the Edward R. Broida Collection |
|
| James Rosenquist: A Retrospective |
|
| The Manfred Heiting Collection |
|
| Ellsworth Kelly - Red Green Blue |
|
| Paris in the Age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musée d´Orsay |
|
| American Modern: 1920s and ´30s Design |
|
| The History of Japanese Photography |
|
| Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll |
|
| A Passion for Collecting: The Legacy of Sue Rowan Pittman |
2002
|
| Old Masters, Impressionists & Moderns: French Masterworks fr. Pushkin Museum |
|
| Vija Celmins: Works from The Edward R. Broida Collection |
|
| Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown |
|
| Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence |
|
| French Impressionism: Masterpieces from Copenhagen´s Ordrupgaard Collection |
|
| Masterworks from El Greco to Picasso in The Phillips Collection |
|
| The Quilts of Gee´s Bend |
|
| Okanoue Toshiko: Collages |
|
| Paris Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection |
|
| Focus on the Beck Collection |
|
| Jasper Johns´s Ventriloquism: Where Does the Voice Come From? |
|
| Color Field: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
|
| Natural Wonders: Works by John James Audubon from the Stark Museum of Art |
|
| Americanos: Latino Life in the United States |
| |
| Richard Pousette-Dart : 1916 - 1992 ; the living edge |
2000
| |
| Walker Evans |
1999
| |
| Diego Rivera - arte y revolución |
1998
| |
| Brassaï - the eye of Paris |
| |
| Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective |
1996
| |
| John Singleton Copley in America |
1995
| |
| Tina Modotti - photographs |
| |
| Poussin - works on paper from the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II |
1992
| |
| Max Weber - the cubist decade 1910 - 1920 |
1991
| |
| Arman - a retrospective |
1990
| |
| Adolph Menzel, 1815-1905 - master drawings from East Berlin |
| |
| Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger - Douglas Cooper collecting Cubism |
| |
| Pierre Bonnard - the graphic art |
1986
| |
| Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia |
1985
| |
| Moholy-Nagy - photography and film in Weimar, Germany |
1984
| |
| Unknown territory - photographs by Ray K. Metzker |
1983
| |
| Eliot Porter - intimate landscapes |
| |
| Nicolas Poussin, The Rape of the Sabines |
1978
| |
| Photographic Crossroads, The Photo League |
1977
| |
| Hans Hofmann : a retrospective exhibition |
1974
| |
| Friedel Dzubas - a retrospective exhibition |
1969
| |
| Hundertwasser |
1964
| |
| Alexander Calder: Circus Drawings, Wire Sculpture and Toys |
|
| |
|
