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The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe.
In January 2015, Kelly gave to the Blanton Museum the design concept for a 2,715 square feet (252.2 m 2) stone building that he subsequently named Austin. Kelly said that the design of the building was inspired by Romanesque and Byzantine art he studied while in Paris on the G.I. Bill. Following Kelly's gift, the Blanton launched a $15 million ...
Ray Williams is the current Director of Education and Academic Affairs at the Blanton Museum of Art (20012-current). [1] He previously held the position of director of education at the Harvard Art Museums, Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and the Ackland Art Museum.
Christ on the Road to Calvary (c. 1500) by Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua, from the Suida-Manning Collection at the Blanton Museum of Art.. In 1947 Suida became director of the art history department of the Kress Foundation in New York, advising entrepreneur Samuel Henry Kress on art purchases and later helping to disperse the collection to museums across the United States, including the ...
The Blanton Museum is currently preparing for a major exterior transformation of its grounds and plaza designed by Snøhetta. That effort was significantly aided by the surprise announcement, at a February 2019 gala, that the museum would receive a $20 million gift from The Moody Foundation, to fund the project and continued free admission on ...
Museum: Lavaca and West Seventeenth Streets (northbound) Guadalupe and Seventeenth (southbound) MetroBus 1, 3, 18, 20, 30, 105, 481, 801, 980, 981, 982, 985, 987, 990 UT Shuttle 663 (LA) Serves Blanton Museum of Art and Bullock Texas State History Museum Capitol: Lavaca and West Thirteenth Streets (northbound)
The museum still maintains its original home on the Clara Driscoll estate, where it was known for 34 years as Laguna Gloria Art Museum. Once owned by Stephen F. Austin , [ 3 ] the Laguna Gloria site has been declared a national treasure and is on city, state , and national registers of historic places. [ 4 ]
Blanton Duncan (1827–1902), American landholder, printer, political organizer, and Confederate Army officer Blanton Winship (1869–1947), American military lawyer and veteran Places