Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VCU and 13 charities to receive $125 million bequest

RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) jointly announced today the largest-ever cash gifts to both organizations totaling $115 million. The record gifts will help acquire additional works of art and support medical research. Thirteen additional charitable organizations will receive the remaining $10 million. The trusts, created in the 1950s by Arthur Graham and Margaret Branch Glasgow, terminated earlier this summer with the death of their son-in-law, Ambrose Congreve 104, in London. VMFA, VCU and the [...]

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Announces New Deputy Director for Advancement

RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced today the appointment of Linda Lipscomb as the new deputy director for advancement beginning September 1, 2011. As the leader of the museum’s development team, Lipscomb will work toward raising unrestricted money, which supports museum operations, exhibitions and education funding, as well as endowments and special projects. VMFA Development also oversees the John Barton Payne and Heritage societies, which support art donors and planned giving, respectively. “The Virginia Museum is currently experiencing unprecedented [...]

Degas: Form, Movement, and the Antique Exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art

TAMPA, FL.- The exhibition which will open to the public on March 12, 2011 will include 47 works by the French Impressionist master Edgar Degas (1834-1917). The museum will complement the exhibition of works by Degas with selections from its pre-eminent collections of antiquities and historical photographs. Together, the works in the exhibition will examine how Degas drew inspiration from the contemporary and ancient worlds. “The Tampa Museum of Art is pleased to welcome loans from over 30 different lenders. [...]

Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris

RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents a landmark exhibition in honor of its 75th anniversary, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris. VMFA is the only East Coast venue for the exhibition’s seven-city international tour. The exhibition, which will be on view from February 19 through May 15, 2011, is co-organized by the Musée National Picasso, Paris and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Drawn from the collection of the Musée National Picasso in Paris, the [...]

Van Gogh, Other Artistic Masterpieces on Display at Radford University Art Museum

RADFORD, VA.- Community leaders and officials from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and Radford University gathered on Thursday evening, Jan. 20, for a preview event celebrating the opening of “Van Gogh, Lichtenstein, Whistler: Masterpieces of World Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,” an exhibition commemorating the museum’s 75th anniversary. Supported by Altria Group, the special exhibition is open to the public and is featured in the Radford University Art Museum, located in the Covington Center for Visual [...]

Virginia Museum Announces Important Picasso Exhibition

RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced the most important exhibition in its history, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris. VMFA is the exclusive East Coast venue for the exhibition’s seven-city international tour. The exhibition, which will be on view from February 19 through May 15, 2011, is co-organized by the Musée National Picasso, Paris and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Tickets are available now. Drawn from the collection of the Musée National Picasso in [...]

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to be Open 365 Days a Year

RICHMOND, VA.- In keeping with its goal to be accessible to all visitors, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announces plans to be open 365 days a year. In addition, VMFA is expanding its evening hours. Starting in July, the museum will be open until 9 p.m. on Fridays, in addition to Thursday evenings. “We have been wildly successful since our grand opening in May, and the museum has been enthusiastically received by the community and national visitors,” says [...]

Tiffany’s Dazzling Designs at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

RICHMOND, VA.- The most important exhibition in decades devoted to Louis Comfort Tiffany’s opulent creations in glass will open on May 29 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond is the only U.S. stop for “Tiffany: Color and Light,” which will continue until August 15. The exhibition includes more than 170 works by Louis Comfort Tiffany – the master of American glass – and his studio. Handblown glass objects, leaded-glass windows, lamps, and other decorative items from Tiffany’s studios [...]

Gans Gift of 50 Works of English Silver Elevates Stature of VMFA’s Collection

RICHMOND, VA.- Fifty dazzling works of art in English silver have been given to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by collector Rita R. Gans of New York, significantly elevating the stature of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts‘ collection. VMFA Director Alex Nyerges calls it “the most important and fabulous gift of English silver in memory in many years to any museum in the world.” “This additional gift, when united with the 102 works of art already in the [...]

Expanded Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Opens Its Doors

RICHMOND, VA.- Visitors coming to the new James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will see spectacular art and activities inside even before they reach the entrance, thanks to an enormous expanse of glass on VMFA’s Boulevard façade. The main window, 70 feet by 40 feet, and other large expanses of glass will let natural light pour into the heart of the museum by day and provide a welcoming beacon from the outside [...]

Major Painting by American Artist Philip Evergood is Acquired by VMFA

RICHMOND, VA.- American artist Philip Evergood’s 1936 oil on canvas “Street Corner” is among many significant works acquired recently by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in preparation for its grand opening May 1. The painting is the first major Depression-era Urban Realist canvas to enter the collection and was painted in the same year VMFA opened its doors. Also added to the collection is Italian artist Pio Fedi’s plaster study for “The Sacrifice of Polyxena,” circa 1885; “Mirror with [...]

VMFA Appoints Geza von Habsburg as Guest Curator of Faberge Collection

RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has appointed Dr. Geza von Habsburg as guest curator of its Lillian Thomas Pratt Collection of Russian Imperial Jewels by Peter Carl Fabergé. Von Habsburg is an internationally known author and authority on Fabergé. He has been curator and organizer for a number of Fabergé exhibitions in the United States and abroad, among them “Fabergé, Jeweler to the Tsars” (1986-87) at Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich, Germany, and “Fabergé in America,” which [...]

Rare Tiffany Stained Glass Windows on View for the First Time in Montreal

MONTREAL.- After Paris, where it garnered both public and critical acclaim, the exhibition “Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour” will be shown in Montreal from February 12 to May 2, 2010. It is the first exhibition of this magnitude on one of the most famous American designers, Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933), to be presented in Canada. Developed and produced by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, it will highlight Tiffany’s remarkable contribution to the design and technology of glass, which [...]

Interior Finishing Touches Now Under Way at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

RICHMOND, VA.- With less than four months to go before the grand opening May 1, interior and exterior work on the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts expansion — the largest in its history — is in high gear. On the outside, sod and paving are being installed, and eight 20-foot lacebark elms have been planted on the new Mary Morton Parsons Entry Plaza. New landscaping is also under way in front of the existing building, simplifying the plantings and focusing [...]

Fred Tomaselli Painting Purchased by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

RICHMOND, VA.- Two contemporary works, a painting by Fred Tomaselli and a photograph by William Wiley, have been added to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collection. The Tomaselli painting, “Woodpecker,” is a 2008 work in acrylic, gouache, photo collage, and resin on wood panel measuring 6 by 6 feet. “’Woodpecker’ belongs to a series of magnificent birds that Tomaselli painted as surrogates for humans,” says John Ravenal, VMFA’s Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. [...]

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