This is a list of
single-artist museums, which are museums displaying the work of, or bearing the name of, a single visual artist.
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Basuki Abdullah
Fransiskus Xaverius Basuki Abdullah (born Muhammad Basuki Abdullah, January 25, 1915 – November 5, 1993) was an Indonesian painter and a convert to Roman Catholicism from Islam. His work is characterized as realism and has been exhibited i ...
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Basoeki Abdullah Museum
Basoeki Abdullah Museum is an art museum located in South Jakarta, Indonesia. It contains paintings and the personal collection of Basoeki Abdullah, including statues, masks, puppet
A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, anim ...
, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Affandi –
Affandi Museum
The Affandi Museum is a museum located in Yogyakarta on Java, Indonesia.
On the bank of the Gajah Wong River on Laksda Adisucipto Street number 167, in 1953 the painter Affandi designed and constructed a home for himself which also functions as a ...
, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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Yaacov Agam – Yaacov Agam Museum of Art, Rishon LeZion, Israel
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Ivan Aivazovsky
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (russian: link=no, Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 18172 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized a ...
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Aivazovsky National Art Gallery, Feodosia, Crimea
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Josef and
Anni Albers – Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut
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Theodor Aman -
Theodor Aman Museum
The Theodor Aman Museum is a museum in Bucharest dedicated to the life and work of Romanian painter, engraver and art professor Theodor Aman.
Overview
The building that currently houses the museum was constructed in 1868, and is located betwe ...
, Bucharest, Romania
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Walter Anderson –
Walter Anderson Museum of Art
The Walter Anderson Museum of Art (WAMA) is located in Ocean Springs, Mississippi on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. WAMA is dedicated to the work of Walter Inglis Anderson (1903–1965), whose depictions of coastal plants, animals, landscapes, and pe ...
, Ocean Springs, Mississippi
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Edward Bailey
Edward Bailey (1814–1903) was the most accomplished of the Hawaiian missionary period artists in Hawaii. Along with his wife Caroline Hubbard, Bailey arrived in Hawaii as a missionary-teacher in 1837 on the ship '' Mary Frazier''. He worked ...
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Bailey House Museum, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii
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Ernst Barlach -
Ernst Barlach House, Hamburg, Germany
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi –
Musée Bartholdi
The Musée Bartholdi is a museum dedicated to French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and is situated at 30 rue des Marchands in Colmar, at the artist's birthplace. The museum has the "Musée de France" label. In 2011, the building was labeled "Maiso ...
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Colmar, France
Colmar (, ; Alsatian: ' ; German during 1871–1918 and 1940–1945: ') is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it i ...
, and the
Statue of Liberty Museum
The Statue of Liberty Museum is located on Liberty Island in New York City. The museum opened on May 16, 2019, and is focused on the creation, meaning, and history of the Statue of Liberty (formally ''Liberty Enlightening the World''), a large st ...
on
Liberty Island
Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''), a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in ...
, New York City
* Benini -
Museo Benini,
Marble Falls, Texas
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Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include ''Ploughing in the Nivernais'', firs ...
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Musée de l'atelier Rosa Bonheur, Thomery, France
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Fernando Botero – Museo Botero, Bogota, Colombia
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Antoine Bourdelle
Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important ...
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Musée Bourdelle, Paris
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Charles Burchfield –
Burchfield Penney Art Center
The Burchfield Penney Art Center, or just the Burchfield Penney, is an arts and educational institution part of Buffalo State College, located adjacent to the main campus in Buffalo, New York, United States. Dedicated to the art and vision of ...
, Buffalo, New York
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Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder (; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his ...
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Calder Gardens
Calder Gardens is a forthcoming sanctuary in the United States dedicated to the work of artist Alexander Calder. It will sit on of Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia and will include indoor and outdoor spaces that feature Calder's work.
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(upcoming), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Paul Cezanne -
Cézanne's studio
Cézanne's studio (''Atelier de Cézanne'') is a museum about the painter Paul Cézanne, in Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. It was his studio from 1902 until his death in 1906.
Description History
In November 1901, after the death of his moth ...
, Aix-en-Provence, France
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Auguste Chabaud
Auguste Chabaud (3 October 1882 – 23 May 1955) was a French painter and sculptor.
Biography
He was born in Nimes. At the age of fourteen Chabaud joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Avignon. In 1899 he went to Paris to continue his artistic trai ...
– Musée Auguste Chabaud, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated with several major ...
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Musée Marc Chagall, Nice, France, and
Marc Chagall Museum
The Marc Chagall Museum ( be, Віцебскі музей Марка Шагала) is a museum dedicated to the painter Marc Chagall, in his hometown of Vitebsk, Belarus. The museum was founded by the decision of the Vitebsk City Executive Comm ...
, Vitebsk, Belarus
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Nek Chand
Nek Chand Saini (15 December 1924 – 12 June 2015) was a self-taught Indian artist, known for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, an eighteen-acre sculpture garden in the city of Chandigarh.
Early life and background
Nek Chand hailed f ...
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Rock Garden of Chandigarh, India
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Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly () (born September 20, 1941) is an American glass artist and entrepreneur. He is best known in the field of blown glass, "moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture".
Early life
Dale Patrick Chihuly was born on September 2 ...
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Chihuly Garden and Glass, Seattle, Washington
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Giorgio de Chirico
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( , ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian
artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the '' scuola metafisica'' art movement, which profoundly influ ...
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Giorgio de Chirico House Museum
The Giorgio de Chirico House Museum (''Casa Museo di Giorgio de Chirico'') is a house museum in the 16th century Palazzetto del Borgognoni at Piazza di Spagna 31 in Rome. The house was acquired by Giorgio de Chirico in 1948. It was left to th ...
, Rome
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Camille Claudel –
Musée Camille Claudel
The Musée Camille Claudel is a French national museum which honors and exhibits the art of sculptor Camille Claudel. The museum displays approximately half of Claudel's existing artwork. The Claudel museum was opened in 2017 in her teenage home to ...
, Nogent-sur-Seine, France
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Jean Cocteau Museum, Menton, France
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Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and t ...
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Musée Courbet
The Musée Courbet or Courbet Museum is a museum dedicated to the French painter Gustave Courbet. It is located in Ornans in the Doubs-Franche-Comté area of France.
History
The Musée Courbet occupies the birthplace of French realist painte ...
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Ornans, France.
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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in ...
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list of Dalí museums
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Cyrus Edwin Dallin -
Cyrus Dallin Art Museum
The Cyrus Dallin Art Museum (CDAM) in Arlington, Massachusetts, United States is dedicated to displaying the artworks and documentation of American sculptor, educator, and Indigenous rights activist Cyrus Dallin, who lived and worked in the town f ...
, Arlington, Massachusetts
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Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British ...
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Musée national Eugène Delacroix
The Musée national Eugène Delacroix ( en, National Eugène Delacroix Museum), also known as the Musée Delacroix, is an art museum dedicated to painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and located in the 6th arrondissement at 6, rue de Furstenberg ...
, Paris
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Charles Demuth –
Demuth Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Maurice Denis
Maurice Denis (; 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer. An important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art, he is associated with ''Les Nabis'', symbolism, a ...
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Musée départemental Maurice Denis "The Priory", Paris
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Axel Petersson Döderhultarn
Axel "Döderhultarn" Petersson, formerly Axel Petersson, (12 December 1868 – 15 March 1925) was a Swedish wood carver who was one of the recognized masters of wood carving, most famous for Scandinavian flat-plane style of woodcarving, Sca ...
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Döderhultarn Museum
The Döderhultarn Museum ( sv, Döderhultarmuseet) is a museum in Oskarshamn, Sweden that exhibits the carved works of Axel Petersson Döderhultarn.
General information
Axel Petersson "Döderhultarn" (1868–1925) was a Swedish woodcarver. In the ...
, Oskarshamn, Sweden
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Burhan Dogancay
Burhan ( ar, برهان, ) is an Arabic male name, an epithet of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It is especially popular in Turkey, as it respects Turkish vowel harmony and the end syllable "-han" can be interpreted as the Turkish variant of "K ...
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Dogancay Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
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Jean Dubuffet –
Fondation Jean Dubuffet, Paris
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El Greco
Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos ( el, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El ...
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El Greco Museum, Toledo, Spain
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Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian – Monir Museum, Tehran, Iran
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Nicolai Fechin
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Taos Art Museum
The Taos Art Museum is an art museum located in Taos, New Mexico in the Nicolai Fechin House. This was the home of Russian artist Nicolai Fechin, his wife Alexandra, and daughter Eya. The museum's primary aims are to improve awareness of the works ...
at Fechin House, Taos, New Mexico
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Dan Flavin - The Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton, New York
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Marià Fortuny –
Fortuny Museum
The Museo Fortuny or Fortuny Museum is an art museum in San Marco, in central Venice, Italy.
The museum is housed in the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei, now often known as Palazzo Fortuny, where Mariano Fortuny (1871–1949) had a studio in the late nin ...
, Venice
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Tony Foster
Thomas Scholfield Foster (13 September 1853 – 8 September 1918), commonly known as Tony Foster, was a New Zealand school principal and inspector, and university lecturer.
Early life and education
He was born in London, England, in 1853. Hi ...
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The Foster Museum The Foster Museum is a private non-profit single-artist museum located in Palo Alto, California, United States dedicated to the watercolor wilderness Journeys of artist-explorer Tony Foster (1946–). It houses the permanent collection of the Fos ...
, Palo Alto, California
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (; 5 April 1732
(birth/baptism certificate)
– 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific ar ...
– Villa Musée Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Grasse, France
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Marshall Fredericks -
Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum is an art museum that focuses on the life and works of sculptor Marshall Fredericks. The museum is affiliated with Saginaw Valley State University, and is located in university's Arbury Fine Arts Cente ...
, University Center, Michigan
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Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best known for his 1874 sculpture '' The Minute Man'' in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monu ...
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Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
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Ernst Fuchs - Ernst Fuchs Private Museum, Vienna, Austria
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Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of ...
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Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, England
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Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (; ; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect from Spain known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly individualized, '' sui generis'' style. Most are located in Barc ...
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Gaudi House Museum, Barcelona, Spain
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Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...
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Paul Gauguin Museum, Tahiti
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William Glackens – Glackens Wing of the
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is an art museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Originating in 1958 as the ''Fort Lauderdale Art Center'', the museum is now located in an modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. The current build ...
, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Ilya Glazunov
Ilya Sergeyevich Glazunov (russian: Илья́ Серге́евич Глазуно́в; 10 June 1930 – 9 July 2017) was a Soviet and Russian artist from Saint Petersburg. He was the founder of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Arc ...
– Ilya Glazunov Moscow State Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
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Nahum Gutman
Nachum Gutman (as he himself signed; alternate romanisation: Nahum Gutman; he, נחום גוטמן: October 5, 1898 – November 28, 1980) was a Moldovan-born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author.
Biography
Nachum Gutman was born in Tel ...
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Nahum Gutman Museum of Art
The Nahum Gutman Museum of Art is an art museum located in Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv, Israel.
The Museum resides in the historical Writers' Home, which was built in 1887 and was one of the first buildings in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood. Between ...
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Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Jean-Jacques Henner -
Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner, Paris, France
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Robert Henri
Robert Henri (; June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher.
As a young man, he studied in Paris, where he identified strongly with the Impressionists, and determined to lead an even more dramatic revolt against A ...
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Robert Henri Museum, Cozad, Nebraska
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Barbara Hepworth
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a lea ...
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Barbara Hepworth Museum, Cornwall, England
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Bror Hjorth
Bror Hjorth (1894 in Marma, Sweden – May 21, 1968 in Uppsala, Sweden) was a Swedish artist. Hjorth was one of Sweden’s best-known sculptors and painters, and was professor of art at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm ...
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Bror Hjorths Hus
Bror Hjorths Hus is a museum located in Uppsala, Sweden. The museum is housed in the former studio of sculptor and painter Bror Hjorth (1894–1968).
Hjorth's villa was designed by architect Sten Hummel-Gumaelius (1906-1986). The building wa ...
, Uppsala, Sweden
* Edna Hibel -
Hibel Museum of Art
Hibel Museum of Art was an art museum on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter, Florida dedicated to the paintings, lithographs, and other artwork of artist Edna Hibel. The museum hosted local and traveling exhibitions, public eve ...
, Jupiter, Florida
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William Hogarth
William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-lik ...
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Hogarth's House
Hogarth's House is the former country home of the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth in Chiswick, adjacent to the A4. The House now belongs to the London Borough of Hounslow and is open to visitors as a historic house museum free of ...
, London
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Grace Hudson –
Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, California
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection ...
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KunstHausWien, Vienna, Austria
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the a ...
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Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
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Asger Jorn –
Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
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Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by Culture of Mexico, the country's ...
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Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
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Paul Klee
Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...
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Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
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Georg Kolbe –
Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
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Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz ( born as Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including ''The Weavers'' and '' ...
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Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Cologne, Germany,
Käthe Kollwitz Museum (Berlin)
The Käthe Kollwitz Museum is a museum in Berlin that owns one of the largest collections of works by the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), who lived and worked in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg for over 50 years. , and the
Käthe Kollwitz House (Moritzburg)
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Yayoi Kusama –
Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo, Japan
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...
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Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris
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Johannes Larsen - Johannes Larsen Museum, Kerteminde, Denmark
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Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur -
Le Mayeur Museum, Sanur, Bali, Indonesia
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Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually modified into a more figurative, po ...
– Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France
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Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important ...
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Liebermann Villa, Berlin
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Frederic Leighton –
Leighton House Museum, London
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Baltasar Lobo
Baltasar Lobo (22 February 1910 - 4 September 1993) was a Spain, Spanish artist, anarchist and sculptor best known for his compositions depicting mother and child.
Life
Born in Cerecinos de Campos, Zamora (province), Zamora, Spain, he moved ...
– Museo Baltasar Lobo, Zamora, Spain
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August Macke -
August-Macke-Haus
The August-Macke-Haus or August Macke House is a museum in Bonn, Germany, opened in 1991, dedicated to the expressionist painter August Macke. It is located in Macke's former home, where he lived from 1911 to 1914. The museum displays reconstruct ...
, Bonn, Germany
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René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and bounda ...
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Magritte Museum
The Magritte Museum (french: Musée Magritte, nl, Magritte Museum) is an art museum in central Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the work of the Belgian surrealist artist, René Magritte. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Mus ...
, Bruxelles, Belgium, and
René Magritte Museum
René Magritte Museum (french: Musée René Magritte, nl, René Magritte Museum) is a museum in Jette, a municipality in Brussels, Belgium, devoted to the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. The museum is located at 135, /, in the house wh ...
, Brussels
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Aristide Maillol
Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (; December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker.Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette . "Maillol, Aristide". ''Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online''. Oxford University P ...
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Musée Maillol
The Musée Maillol is an art museum located in the 7th arrondissement at 59–61, rue de Grenelle, Paris, France.
History
In 1964, Dina Vierny donated Maillol's monumental sculptures to the state. André Malraux, Minister of Culture, instal ...
, Paris, and the
Musée Maillol Banyuls-sur-Mer
The Musée Maillol de Banyuls-sur-Mer is a private museum at the farm of the sculptor Aristide Maillol where he spent the last years of his life. The farm, "La Métairie", is situated in the Roume valley 4 km from the city center of Banyul ...
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José Malhoa
José Vital Branco Malhoa, known simply as José Malhoa (28 April 1855 – 26 October 1933) was a Portuguese painter.
Malhoa was, with Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, the leading name in Portuguese naturalist painting in the second half of the ...
- José Malhoa Museum, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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César Manrique –
César Manrique Foundation, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
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Franz Marc –
Franz Marc Museum, Kochel, Bavaria, Germany
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Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...
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Musée Matisse, Nice, France, and
Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
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R. Tait McKenzie
Robert Tait McKenzie ( MacKenzie) (May 26, 1867 – April 28, 1938) was a Canadian physician, educator, sculptor, athlete, soldier and Scouter. Born in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada, he attended McGill University in Montreal ...
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Mill of Kintail, Mississippi Mills, Ontario
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Henrique Medina
Henrique Medina de Barros (18 August 1901, in Porto – 30 November 1988) was a Portuguese painter, better known as a portraitist.
Career
In 1919, he interrupted his studies in the Fine Arts School of Porto (Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Por ...
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Medina Museum
The Medina Museum is located in Braga, Portugal, in the same building of the Pius XII Museum
The collection comprises 83 oil paintings and 21 drawings of the naturalist painter Henrique Medina. Among the collection there are many portraits, stil ...
, Braga, Portugal
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Gari Melchers -
Gari Melchers Home and Studio
Gari Melchers Home and Studio, also known as Belmont, is a National Historic Landmark and historic house museum at 224 Washington Street in Falmouth, Virginia. This much-altered 18th-century house was the home and studio of the popular Americ ...
, Falmouth, Virginia
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was in ...
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Casa Buonarroti Florence, Italy
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Leo Michelson
Leo Michelson ( lv, Leo Mihelsons; 12 May 1887 – 10 April 1978) was a Latvian-American artist considered part of the École de Paris, although his works span many periods and styles.
Biography
Michelson was born in Riga, Latvia. He attended ...
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Michelson Museum of Art, Marshall, Texas
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Carl Milles –
Millesgården, Stockholm, Sweden
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Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà ( , , ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona i ...
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Fundació Joan Miró
The Fundació Joan Miró ( ; "Joan Miró Foundation, Centre of Studies of Contemporary Art") is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).
History
The idea for the foundation w ...
, Barcelona, Spain, and the
Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca
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Paula Modersohn-Becker –
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum
The Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen, Germany, is the first museum in the world devoted to a female artist. Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) was one of the most important early Expressionists, and the museum features key works from each of ...
, Bremen, Germany
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Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...
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Musée Marmottan Monet
Musée Marmottan Monet ( en, Marmottan Museum of Monet) is an art museum in Paris, France, dedicated to artist Claude Monet. The collection features over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, including his ...
, Paris, and
Fondation Monet in Giverny
The Fondation Claude Monet is a nonprofit organisation that runs and preserves the house and gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny, France, where Monet lived and painted for 43 years. Monet was inspired by his gardens, and spent years transformi ...
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Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran –
The Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran House & Studio, East Hampton, New York
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Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau (; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".Cassou, Jean. 1979. ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Symbolism.' ...
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Musée national Gustave Moreau
The Musée national Gustave Moreau ( en, National Gustave Moreau Museum) is an art museum dedicated to the works of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826–1898). It is located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris at 14, rue de la Rochefou ...
, Paris
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William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...
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William Morris Gallery, London
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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch ( , ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, '' The Scream'' (1893), has become one of Western art's most iconic images.
His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the d ...
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Munch Museum, Oslo
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Elisabet Ney –
Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas
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Isamu Noguchi
was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several ...
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Noguchi Museum
The Noguchi Museum, chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, is a museum and sculpture garden in the Long Island City section of Queens, New York City, designed and created by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. ...
, New York City
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George Ohr –
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, Mississippi
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of Ame ...
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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is ...
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list of Picasso museums
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Júlio Pomar
Júlio Artur da Silva Pomar, GOL, GCM (10 January 1926 – 22 May 2018) was a Portuguese painter and visual artist. He was often considered the greatest Portuguese painter of his generation.
Early life and career (1940s and 1950s)
Pomar firs ...
- Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon, Portugal
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Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-aan-de-Leie, Belgium
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Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally co ...
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Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam
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Frederic Remington
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in the genre of Western American Art. His works are known for depicting the Western United Stat ...
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Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York
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Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the ...
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Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Veracruz, Mexico, and
Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City
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Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of Culture of the United States, the country's culture. Roc ...
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Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
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Auguste Rodin –
Musée Rodin, Paris, the
Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the
Museu Rodin Bahia
The Museu Rodin Bahia is a museum devoted to the works of Auguste Rodin, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
See also
* List of single-artist museums
References
*Dear, John (August 12, 2007)How an International Bank Sank Millions in Brazil for Some Rodi ...
, Bahia, Brazil
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Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich (; October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947), also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (russian: link=no, Никола́й Константи́нович Ре́рих), was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosoph ...
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Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York City
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Julio Romero de Torres -
Julio Romero de Torres Museum, Córdoba, Spain
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Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradit ...
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Rubenshuis, Antwerp, Belgium
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Charles Marion Russell
Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West. He created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, an ...
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C.M. Russell Museum
CM or its variants may refer to:
Arts and media Gaming
* '' Championship Manager'', a popular football management simulation game
* ''Chessmaster'', a chess computer program series
Music
* C minor, abbreviated Cm, a minor scale or chord based ...
, Great Falls, Montana
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (; March 1, 1848 – August 3, 1907) was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. From a French-Irish family, Saint-Gaudens was raised in New York City, he tra ...
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Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Cornish, New Hampshire
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John Soane –
Sir John Soane's Museum, London
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Joaquín Sorolla -
Sorolla Museum
The Museum Sorolla (Spanish: ''Museo Sorolla'') is a public museum located in Madrid, Spain. It features work by the artist Joaquín Sorolla, as well as by members of his family such as his daughter Elena.
The building was originally the artist' ...
, Madrid
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Stanley Spencer
Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the sma ...
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Stanley Spencer Gallery
The Stanley Spencer Gallery is an art museum in the South of England dedicated to the life and work of the artist Stanley Spencer. It was opened in 1962 and is located in the Thameside village of Cookham, Berkshire where the artist was born and ...
, Cookham, Berkshire
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Clyfford Still –
Clyfford Still Museum
Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately follow ...
, Denver, Colorado
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Franz Stuck -
Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
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Kenkichi Sugimoto –
Sugimoto Art Museum
The Sugimoto Art Museum (杉本美術館) features the work of the Japanese painter Kenkichi Sugimoto (1905-2004) and is located in Mihama, Chita District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The museum is operated by the Meitetsu railway company.
See al ...
, Mihama, Aichi, Japan
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Ruben Talberg
Talberg Museum
Ruben Cornelis Talberg (born 24 August 1964, in Heidelberg) is an Israeli-German sculptor. Talberg is known for his Neo-Fluxus Manifolds, which go back to his vision in Bellagio, Italy in the early 1980s. Manifolds are executed ...
– Talberg Museum, Offenbach, Germany
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Rufino Tamayo –
Museo Rufino Tamayo
Museo Rufino Tamayo is a public contemporary art museum located in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park, that produces contemporary art exhibitions, using its collection of modern and contemporary art, as well as artworks from the collection of its ...
, Mexico City
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Rudolph Tegner –
Rudolph Tegner Museum, Dronningmølle, Denmark
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Steffen Thomas - Steffen Thomas Museum of Art, Buckhead, Georgia
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen (; 19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danish and Icelandic sculptor medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a working-class Dani ...
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Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen
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Jean Tinguely –
Museum Tinguely
The Museum Tinguely is an art museum in Basel, Switzerland that contains a permanent exhibition of the works of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely. Located in the Solitudepark by the Rhine, the museum was designed by the Ticinese architec ...
, Basel, Switzerland
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the l ...
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Musée Toulouse-Lautrec
The Musée Toulouse-Lautrec is an art museum in Albi, southern France, dedicated mainly to the work of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec who was born in Albi. The 13th century building was originally the Bishop's Palace of Albi Cathedral, nex ...
, Albi, France
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Cy Twombly – Cy Twombly Gallery 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 approximately 17,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawin ...
, Houston, Texas
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Shoji Ueda
A is a door, window or room divider used in traditional Japanese architecture, consisting of translucent (or transparent) sheets on a lattice frame. Where light transmission is not needed, the similar but opaque ''fusuma'' is used (oshiire/ ...
– Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography, Saihaku-gun, Tottori, Japan
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Charles Umlauf -
Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum
The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, stylized as the UMLAUF, is a museum and outdoor sculpture garden centered on the artistic works of American sculptor Charles Umlauf. Located at 605 Azie Morton Road in the Zilker neighborhood of Austin, Texa ...
, Austin, Texas
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Utagawa Hiroshige -
Nakagawa-machi Batō Hiroshige Museum of Art
opened in the Batō area of Nakagawa, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, in 2000. In a prize-winning building designed by Kuma Kengo, the museum's collection includes ''nikuhitsu-ga'' by Hiroshige, woodblock prints of the Utagawa school, Meiji-period pr ...
, Nakagawa, Tochigi, Japan
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...
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Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum () is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened o ...
, Amsterdam
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...
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The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the
Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art
The Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art ( sk, Múzeum Andyho Warhola Medzilaborce or Múzeum Moderného Umenia Andyho Warhola) in Medzilaborce, Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, ...
, Medzilaborce, Slovakia
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George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817, in London – 1 July 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He said "I paint ideas, not things." Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical work ...
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Watts Gallery
Watts Gallery – Artists' Village is an art gallery in the village of Compton, near Guildford in Surrey. It is dedicated to the work of the Victorian-era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts.
The gallery has been Grade II* listed o ...
, Compton, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Brett Whiteley
Brett Whiteley AO (7 April 1939 – 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. He held many exhibiti ...
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Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney, Australia
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Jens Ferdinand Willumsen –
J.F. Willumsens Museum
J.F. Willumsens Museum is in Frederikssund, Denmark. The art museum is operated by Frederikssund Municipality.
The art museum is dedicated to the works of the artist Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1863–1958) and was opened in 1957. Jens Ferdinand ...
, Frederikssund, Denmark
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N.C. Wyeth
Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American painter and illustrator. He was the pupil of Howard Pyle and became one of America's most well-known illustrators. Wyeth created more than 3,00 ...
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Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
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Marlene Tseng Yu
Marlene Tseng Yu (born 1937, in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American artist known for her mural-sized, nature-inspired, abstract expressionist paintings. She has exhibited her "Forces of Nature" series extensively in Europe, Asia, and North America. ...
– Marlene Yu Museum,
Shreveport, Louisiana
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Ossip Zadkine
Ossip Zadkine (russian: Осип Цадкин; 28 January 1888 – 25 November 1967) was a Belarusian-born French artist. He is best known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs.
Early years and education
Zadkine was born on ...
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Musée Zadkine, Paris, France
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Anders Zorn -
Zorn Collections
The Zorn Collections, or ''Zornsamlingarna'', is a Swedish state museum, located in Mora, dedicated to preserving the works by painter Anders Zorn.
Anders Zorn was one of Sweden's internationally best known artists. His fame abroad was founded ...
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Mora, Sweden
See also
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:Museums devoted to one artist
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List of art museums
Africa
Algeria
* Algiers: Museum of Modern Art of Algiers, Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions, National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers
* Oran: Ahmed Zabana National Museum
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Egypt
* Cairo: Egyptian Museum, Museum of I ...
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List of most visited art museums
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List of largest art museums
References
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