Dixon exhibit features European masterpieces including Rembrandt, Rubens and more

MEMPHIS, TN.- The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is presenting an exhibition of more than 70 major works by master painters Rembrandt, Rubens, Tiepolo, Gainsborough, Hogarth and others from the renowned collection of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. On view through April 15, Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Golden Age of Painting illustrates how the tremendous changes in religion, science, and politics coupled with economic growth in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave way to a golden age of painting. [...]

Magnificent Vision: two centuries of European masterworks from the Speed Art Museum

TULSA, OK.- After two exhibitions focusing primarily on work from 20th century America, Tulsa’s Philbrook Museum of Art makes a dramatic shift in both time and setting. For the Museum’s final and biggest show of the year, the Museum is taking a look back at Europe in the 17th and 18th-centuries. Magnificent Vision: Two Centuries of European Masterworks from the Speed Art Museum features more than 70 major works by the likes of Rembrandt, Rubens, Tiepolo, and Gainsborough. Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640),The [...]

119 objects of Kentucky Art donated to Speed Art Museum

LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum announced one of the most important gifts in the history of the Museum and the largest donation of Kentucky art ever received by the Speed. Given by Robert and Norma Noe, this extensive collection includes 119 examples of early Kentucky furniture, paintings, silhouettes, textiles, ceramics, and silver. Artworks from the Noe Collection are currently on view in the exhibition Kentucky Antiques from the Noe Collection: A Gift to the Commonwealth. Dr. Charles L. Venable, Speed Director and [...]

The Speed Art Museum Announces Thorntons Inc. Donates $1 Million for Expansion

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.- The Speed Art Museum announces a $1,000,000 donation from Thorntons Inc. to the Museum’s Changing Speed Capital Campaign. The Capital Campaign will fund the expansion and renovation of the Museum’s site in Louisville. The expansion will serve the community through new programming and increased space for educational initiatives, public events and additional gallery space to present the Speed’s remarkable art collection. Through the years, the Thornton family has been avid supporters of the visual and performing arts with this [...]

The Speed Art Museum Presents The Most Famous People in the World: Karsh 100

LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum presents The Most Famous People in the World: Karsh 100 on view until June 27, 2010. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this exhibition presents iconic portraits of many of the 20th-century’s most famous people taken by world-renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002). “The minute I saw this exhibition on its international tour in Seoul, South Korea, I knew the Louisville public would love it,” said Dr. Charles L. Venable, Director of the [...]

The Speed Art Museum Announces $10 Million Given for Expansion

LOUISVILLE, KY.- At its first annual Legacy Society Dinner honoring donors who have included the Speed Art Museum in their estate plans or given or pledged more than $100,000 in art or cash contributions during their lifetimes, Dr. Elizabeth Pahk Cressman announced that she and her husband, Dr. Frederick K. Cressman, have pledged $10 million to the Speed Art Museum’s upcoming renovation and expansion project. The Cressman gift is among the largest donations ever made to the Museum since its [...]