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Menil Collection One corner of the Menil Collection. The Menil Collection, located in Houston, Texas, refers either to a museum that houses the art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and rare books.
Dominique de Menil (née Schlumberger; March 23, 1908 – December 31, 1997) was a French-American art collector, philanthropist, founder of the Menil Collection and an heiress to the Schlumberger Limited oil-equipment fortune. [1] She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1986. [2]
John and Dominique de Ménil began collecting art intensively in the 1940s, beginning with a purchase of Paul Cézanne's 1895 painting Montagne (Mountain) in 1945.The de Ménils' Catholic faith, especially their interest in Father Yves Marie Joseph Congar's teachings on ecumenism, would become crucial in the development of their collecting ethos in the coming decades. [1]
Menil Collection, Houston Hiroshima , also known as ANT 79 , is a painting by the French painter Yves Klein , created in 1961. Through the use of both anthropometry and monochromy, the work pays tribute to the victims of Hiroshima , affected by the atomic bomb dropped on August 6, 1945, by the United States.
Charmstone is a stone pendant sculpture by Michael Heizer, installed outside the main entrance of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, United States. [1] [2] [3]
The Rothko Chapel is a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas, founded by John and Dominique de Menil.The interior serves not only as a chapel, but also as a major work of modern art: on its walls are fourteen paintings by Mark Rothko in varying hues of black.
The Byzantine Fresco Chapel is a part of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, near the University of St. Thomas.From February 1997 to February 2012, it displayed the only intact Byzantine frescoes of this size and importance in the western hemisphere.
Black Leaf on Green Background (1952) is a collage by Henri Matisse.The medium is gouache and cut paper on paper. It is in the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.During the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health, and by 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts.