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The Kimbell Art Museum is situated in the Cultural District of Fort Worth, Texas, USA. It houses a small collection of European, Asian and Pre-Columbian works, as well as hosting travelling art exhibitions. The building was designed by Louis Kahn.

Contents 1 History 2 The collection 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] History

The Kimbell Art Foundation was established as a result of a request by Kay Kimbell, a Texan industrialist and art collector, to establish an art institute for the people of Texas. On his death in 1964, his widow, Velma Fuller Kimbell, decided to use the entire Kimbell estate to fund the Institute.

The museum building was commissioned in 1966 and opened in 1972. Designed by architect Louis Kahn, the 120,000 square foot (11,000 m²) building takes the form of a series of spaces defined by parallel barrel vaults. Senior architect, Galen Schlosser, at Kahn's firm, was the supervising architect and a major design influence on the building.

The Kimbell Art Foundation recently announced that the Renzo Piano Building Workshop has been selected as the architect for an addition to the museum.

[edit] The collection

Works by Michelangelo, Picasso, Caravaggio, El Greco, Rembrandt, Monet, Gainsborough, Vigée-Lebrun, and Rubens are included among many others in the European collection. There is the only painting by Adam Elsheimer on public display outside Europe. Two important paintings by Piet Mondrian mark the modern end of the period covered.

There is a collection of antiquities from the classical period ranging from Assyrian to Greek and Roman.

The Asian collection includes jars from Neolithic China and works from Tang, Song and Ming dynasties. Japanese art is focused on the Momoyama and Edo periods.

[edit] See also

• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

[edit] External links

• Kimbell Art Museum official website
• Louis Kahn
• QTVR walk-through of the museum
• Kimbell Art Foundation selects Architect for New Building

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Coordinates: 32°44′54″N 97°21′55″W / 32.74843°N 97.36520°W / 32.74843; -97.36520