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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.
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.
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.
Photo credit: Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photo: Balthazar Korab In the living room of Dominique and John de Menil's house the artwork is by René Magritte.
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]
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]
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 De Luxe Show was an art exhibition held from August to September 1971 at the DeLuxe Theater in Houston's Fifth Ward.Organized by African American artist Peter Bradley and arts patron John de Menil with the mission of bringing contemporary art into a low-income, predominantly Black community, The De Luxe Show was one of the first racially integrated art exhibitions in the United States and ...