The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

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The Menil Collection
1515 Sul Ross
Houston, TX 77006
USA
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+1 - 712 - 525 94 00

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We, Th, Fr, Sa, Su 11:00-19:00

Institutions highest ranked artists:
Artist	Rank
Andy Warhol	1
Pablo Picasso	2
Robert Rauschenberg	7
Henri Matisse	10
Joàn Miró	15

Artists most exhibited:
Artist	Rank	№
Max Ernst	20	3
Frank Stella	93	3

Institution's artists also shown at:
Institution		№	№
	MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA	114	25
	Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, France	52	25
	Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany	37	23
	Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA	33	23
	Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, USA	33	15

Public exhibitions 2
30.10. - 14.02. (still more than 2 months)

Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil

25.09. - 03.01. (still more than 1 month)

Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood

Profile
Foundation year: 1987

Artists

Howard Barnston
Georges Braque   1882-1963, FR
André Breton   1896-1966, FR
Paul Cézanne   1839-1906, FR
John Chamberlain   1927, US
Giorgio de Chirico   1888-1978, GR
Joseph Cornell   1903-1972, US
Salvador Dalí   1904-1989, ES
Marcel Duchamp   1887-1968, FR
Paul Eduard
Max Ernst   1891-1976, DE
Jasper Johns   1930, US
Philip Cortelyou Johnson   1906-2005, US
Yves Klein   1928-1962, FR
Luisa Lambri   1969, IT
Fernand Léger   1881-1955, FR
Julien Levy   1906-1981
Andrew Lord   1950, UK
René Magritte   1898-1967, BE
Karel Malich   1924, CZ
Henri Matisse   1869-1954, FR
Roberto Matta   1911-2002, CL
Joàn Miró   1893-1983, ES
Barnett Newman   1905-1970, US
Renzo Piano   1937, IT
Francis Picabia   1879-1953, FR
Pablo Picasso   1881-1973, ES
Jackson Pollock   1912-1956, US
Robert Rauschenberg   1925-2008, US
Man Ray   1890-1976, US
Mark Rothko   1903-1970, US
Clyfford Still   1904-1980, US
Yves Tanguy   1900-1955, FR
Cy Twombly   1928, US
Andy Warhol   1928-1987, US

Previous Exhibitions 50
2009

Drawings on Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave

Contemporary Conversations: John Chamberlain, American Tableau

2008

Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie

Art and Power in the Central African Savanna

Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection

NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith

Sterne & Steinberg: Critics Within

Max Neuhaus: Drawings Max Neuhaus: A New Sound Work

form, color, illumination: Suzan Frecon painting

"How Artists Draw: Toward the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center"

Vivid Vernacular : Walker Evans, William Christenberry, and William Eggleston

2007

Contemporary Conversations

A Rose has no Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s

A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman

Otabenga Jones and Associates

Form, Color, Illumination: Suzan Frecon Painting

Andy Warhol - Three Houston Women

Robert Rauschenberg - Cardboards and Related Pieces

Everyday People - 20th-Century Photography

2006

David Novros

Klee and America

The Imagery of Chess - Revisited

Color and line; Selections from The Menil Collection

Frank Stella - 1958

Insistent Objects - David Levinthal’s "Blackface"

Eva Hesse Drawing

2005

The Meat Wagon

The Surreal Calder

The Modernist Impulse

David McManaway and Friends - Jim Love and Roy Fridge

Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works On Paper

Ellsworth Kelly - Tablet

Romuald Hazoumé - La Bouche de Roi

Deep Wells and Reflecting Pools

2004

Joseph Beuys - Actions, Vitrines and Environments

Contortion and Distortion: Post war European Art from The Menil Collection

Photographs - Olafur Eliasson

Luisa Lambri: Locations

Arshile Gorky - A Retrospective of Drawings

Luis Barragán : An Unbuilt House for the Menil

2003

Kazimir Malevich - Suprematism

In Pursuit of the Absolute

James Rosenquist - a retrospective

SANCTUARIES - The Late Works of John Hejduk

Jasper Johns - Drawings

Donald Judd - The Early Work, 1956-1968

2002

H.C. Westermann

Anna Gaskell - half life

2001

Yves Tanguy and surrealism

Last update: 30 September 2009