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The Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) an art museum located in Monterey, California. It was founded in 1959 as a chapter of the American Federation of Arts. The Monterey Museum of Art collects, preserves, and interprets the art of California from the nineteenth century to the present day. Notable holdings celebrate the heritage of Northern and ...
Museum entry. The first Maritime Museum began in 1971 as the Allen Knight Maritime Museum. It was located in the basement of the Monterey Museum of Art, and principally housed the collection of Allen Knight, who briefly worked as a sailor in 1916, and collected artifacts and memorabilia related to maritime activities throughout his life.
In 2001 the Monterey Museum of Art held a retrospective entitled The Fabric of Experience: the woven art of Mary Balzer Buskirk. [5] Buskirk died in Monterey, California, on May 11, 2009. [3] Her work is in the collection of the Monterey Museum of Art [4] the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, the Museum of Art and Design, [6] among other ...
From 1923–1938 she maintained a studio in Pacific Grove, California and specialized in coastal scenes and the fishing industry around Monterey. Considered an Impressionist, [4] she chose vivid colors and used loose horizontal brush strokes. [1] In 1938, she changed careers and closed her art studio.
Anthony 'Tony' Natsoulas (born 1959 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American sculptor and contemporary artist. Numerous galleries and museums such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Monterey Museum of Art, , Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, and the San Jose Museum of Art have exhibited Tony Natsoulas' work in the past; there are several large-scale pieces in public spaces.
In 1964, Russia's Pushkin Museum acquired 48 of their block prints for its permanent collection, and hosted a televised exhibition devoted to their work. [60] Packard and Randall reciprocated by hosting a Soviet Art exhibit in 1967, the first art exchange exhibit of Soviet art on the West Coast.
She was appointed Director and Chief Curator of the JPMorgan Chase art collection in 2017. [1] She is a member of the board of trustees at Accountability Lab. [2] Eyerman has also served as Director and chief executive officer of the Monterey Museum of Art (2010–2013), [3] and as Director of the Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills. [3] [4]
Hansen was also unique in that he had friends in among the avant-garde and conservative artists in Monterey and Carmel. An important work of this period is his The Salmon Trawlers (1923), which is in the permanent collection of the Monterey Museum of Art. In the 1930s Hansen's paintings become more intense and use of light more pronounced.