Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL (original) (raw)
Museum of Fine Arts
St. Petersburg, FL
727-896-2667
Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
Chihuly Across Florida: Masterworks in Glass (12/31/03)
African American Works on Paper from the Wes and Missy Cochran Collection (11/10/03)
Ansel Adams: Nature and Art (5/21/02)
Dr. John Schloder Appointed Director of St. Petersburg's Museum of Fine Arts (8/16/01)
An American Palette: Works from the Collection of John and Dolores Beck (10/14/00)
The Art of American Life: Winslow Homer's Graphics (1857-1877) (10/18/99)
Robert Gwathmey: Master Painter (10/18/99)
Pierre Daura: Catalán-American Artist (9/99)
The Museum of Fine Arts has the only comprehensive art collection, extending from antiquity to the present day, on the Florida west coast. The collection of more than 4,600 objects includes important works by Monet, Gauguin, Renoir, Morisot, Cézanne, Rodin, Bourdelle, Hassam, Henri, Bellows, O'Keeffe, and Andrew Wyeth. The Museum has been repeatedly named the best art museum in the Tampa Bay area by Tampa Bay Magazine, Creative Loafing, and Tampa Bay metro.
Hours and admission fees are available on the museum's website.
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