Works Acquired by the Friends of the Collection on View at the Portland Museum of Art

PORTLAND, ME.- The Lay of the Land: A Celebration of Art Acquired by the Friends of the Collection (1983—2010), on view January 15 through May 8, 2011, at the Portland Museum of Art, will feature a special selection of approximately 25 works of art acquired by the Museum with the generous support of the Friends of the Collection. The Friends of the Collection group was established in 1983 on the occasion of the opening of the Museum’s Charles Shipman Payson [...]

Portland Museum of Art Receives Major Gift

PORTLAND, ME.- The Portland Museum of Art announced that it has received a major gift of approximately $3 million from the family of Emily Eaton Moore, a trustee and longtime supporter of the Museum, who passed away in March. One of the largest gifts made to the Museum in the last 10 years, this gift will support the Museum’s mission and vision. “We are overwhelmed by the generosity of this gift from Emily Moore and her family,” said former Museum [...]

Spencer Museum of Art Taps I.M. Pei Firm to Produce Expansion Plan

LAWRENCE, KS.- The internationally renowned architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (formerly I. M. Pei & Partners) has been contracted to produce a phased master planning document for the future expansion of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. “A planning document developed by this highly respected firm will articulate the new evolving vision of the Spencer Museum of Art,” said Saralyn Reece Hardy, museum director. “The Spencer is a leader among university art museums [...]

Winslow Homer Exhibition this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art

PORTLAND, ME.- This summer the Portland Museum of Art will present Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place, on view June 5 through September 6, 2010. In honor of the centennial of Homer’s death in September, this exhibition will showcase 20 works from the Museum’s collection of Homer watercolors and oils on canvas. Based upon the extraordinary gift of 17 works by Charles Shipman Payson to the Museum in 1976, the exhibition will feature paintings understood to be national treasures, [...]