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The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library. Its initial artwork came from the private collection of Kay and Velma Kimbell, who also provided funds for a new building to house it.
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The Design and Construction of the Kimbell Art Museum: A 30th-Anniversary Exhibition (21 September – 3 November 2002) [28] The Floral Art of Pierre-Joseph Redouté (17 November 2002 – 2 March 2003) [29] European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (18 March – 27 May 2001) [30]
This painting is now in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] It shows the common medieval subject, included in the Golden Legend and other sources, of Saint Anthony (AD 251 – 356) being assailed in the desert by demons , whose temptations he resisted; the Temptation of St Anthony (or "Trial") is the more common name of the ...
The Kimbell seated Bodhisattva belongs to a type known as the "Kapardin" statue of the Buddha, characterized by a "Kapardin" coil of hair on the top of the head. The top of the statue was broken, and a full decorated aureola with flying attendants initially stood behind the image of the Buddha. [ 8 ]
The exhibit is organized by the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte and The Museum Box in collaboration with the Kimbell, the Minneapolis Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
He established the Kimbell Art Foundation in Fort Worth, Texas in 1935 and at his death left his fortune to the foundation, with directions to build a museum of the first class in Fort Worth. The collection of art that Kimbell and his wife amassed included many fine works by late Renaissance, French nineteenth-century, and American nineteenth ...
The Cardsharp with the Ace of Diamonds by Georges de La Tour, c. 1620–1640.. The painting shows an expensively-dressed but unworldly boy playing cards with another boy. The second boy, a cardsharp, has extra cards tucked in his belt behind his back, out of sight of the mark but not the viewer, and a sinister older man is peering over the dupe's shoulder and signaling to his young accompl