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When Did the First Presbyterian Church of Allentown Become the Allentown Art Museum

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Allentown Fine art Museum of the Lehigh Valley
Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania.jpg
Established 1934
Location 31 N. 5th Street
Allentown, Pennsylvania Us
Director Max Weintraub[one]
Public transit access Bus transport LANTA bus: 102, 107, 209, 210, 220, 324
Website world wide web.allentownartmuseum.org

The Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley is an fine art museum located in the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Us.[2] It was founded in 1934 by a group organized by noted Pennsylvania impressionist painter, Walter Emerson Baum. With its collection of over 19,000 works of art, the Allentown Art Museum is a major regional art institution. In addition, its library and archives of more than than 16,000 titles and 40 current periodicals make it an important regional cultural resource.

Founding of the museum [edit]

The "Allentown Art Gallery" was organized by Baum and opened in Allentown'south Hunsicker Schoolhouse on March 17, 1934. With seventy canvases by local Pennsylvania impressionist artists on display, the gallery attracted major attending from the local and regional art communities. During the Great Depression, Baum was able to abound the collection through the Public Works of Art Project and through acquisitions and gifts. In June 1936, the Urban center of Allentown granted the museum a permanent dwelling in a Federal-style house located in the Rose Garden in Allentown'due south Cedar Park. The museum's first curator was local artist John E. Berninger, who lived with his married woman on the museum's second flooring.

The Kress endowment [edit]

In 1959, a souvenir of fifty-three Renaissance and Bizarre paintings and sculptures from Samuel H. Kress (a native of nearby Cherryville, Pennsylvania) brought the museum to a new level. The Kress gift stimulated community visionaries and museum friends to purchase and refurbish a building, formerly the Beginning Presbyterian Church building (originally built 1902), suitable to business firm the new collection.

In 1960, the Kress gift was featured in the museum'due south showtime major itemize, "The Samuel H. Kress Memorial Drove", written past Richard Hirsch, the institution's first director. In his introduction, Hirsch'south observed how the "fleeting imagery of Goggle box" changed perceptions of the works in the drove. When created, they were not merely one of many representations of religious figures, but the figures themselves.[3] Hirsch'due south observations portend the Deadening Motion arising more than 25 years later on encouraging a renewed, attentive appreciation of the world, including fine fine art. The museum began featuring "Slow Art" days in 2011 to acknowledge the benefits of quiet, intense reflection.

In 1975, an Edgar Tafel-designed expansion to the building was completed to enhance the museum's programs and collecting plans. At that time, the Museum installed a room designed past Frank Lloyd Wright as function of its permanent drove: the library from the second Francis W. Little House. Another room from that house tin can exist seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Fine art in New York City.

2010–2011 expansion [edit]

In 2010, the museum began a $15.iv 1000000 expansion projection, designed by architecture business firm Venturi Scott Brown of Philadelphia, to renovate the museum, add together vii,900 square feet (730 m2) of new classroom and gallery infinite, corner buffet, expanded gift store, and add a new all-glass facade to the 5th Street side of the facility. The expansion, which is the museum's offset since 1975, was initially proposed in 1999 and is a significant reduction from the $32 million, 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m2) add-on originally planned.[4] Approximately 40% of the new infinite is gallery infinite.[5]

Electric current collection [edit]

The Allentown Fine art Museum's collection, yet largely divers past European paintings in 1975, expanded with a large collection of textiles and another gift of works on paper. The 1978 acquisition of Gilbert Stuart'due south fallacious portrait of Ann Penn Allen (granddaughter of William Allen, the founder of the museum's native Allentown), set the benchmark for the qualitative standards of the drove.

In 2016 the museum under the leadership of so director David Mickenberg acquired from the Lehighton, Pennsylvania American Legion post "Lehighton" a mural by Franz Kline which the artist created for the aforementioned branch of the U.Due south Veterans organization.[half-dozen] Then following intensive the work on the mural by "Luca Bonetti Painting Restoration" the restored painting was unveiled to the public in January 2017.[7]

Portrait of a Young Lady past Rembrandt [edit]

On February 10, 2020 Portrait of a Young Lady (1632) by Rembrandt from the museum's drove is announced equally authentic following having been reassessed subsequently conservation.[viii]

European art [edit]

  • Game Stall at Market, Studio of Frans Snyders (1625/37)
  • Saint Jerome Penitent, Lorenzo Lotto (1515)
  • Portrait of Henrica Ploost van Amstel, Paulus Moreelse (1625)
  • Central Console of an Altarpiece Mystic Wedlock of Saint Catherine, Giovanni del Biondo (1379)
  • Portrait of a Young Woman, Rembrandt (1632)[9]

American art [edit]

  • Ann Penn Allen, Gilbert Stuart (1795)
  • Niagara Falls, Gustav Johann Grunewald (1834)
  • Floriform Vase, Tiffany Studios (1905)

Textiles [edit]

  • Bed Curtain (Palampore), India, Coromandel Coast (1775)
  • Tabular array Encompass, Margaret Oothout (1764)

Prints and drawings [edit]

  • Diogenes afterwards Parmigiano, Ugo da Carpi (after 1525)
  • Untitled, Keith Haring (1982)
  • Il Perdono (Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi), Federico Barocci (1581)

See also [edit]

  • List of historic places in Allentown, Pennsylvania

References [edit]

  1. ^ Press, The (2013-10-30). "Art Museum names new president-CEO – Lehigh Valley Press". Bethlehem.thelehighvalleypress.com. Retrieved 2021-01-21 .
  2. ^ Moser, John (12 April 2014). "New president of the Allentown Art Museum is rolling out the welcome mat". The Morning Call . Retrieved 3 Dec 2014.
  3. ^ The Samuel H. Kress Memorial Drove of the Allentown Art Museum. Allentown, Pa. The Museum, 1960
  4. ^ Moser, John J. (Apr 24, 2010), "Art museum plans smaller expansion ** Economic system hurts fundraising, just a $xv.iv million projection is set up to begin side by side month.", The Morning time Telephone call, pp. A.ane
  5. ^ Sozanski, Edward (August xv, 2010), "Fine art: What is art's place in the pic?", The Philadelphia Inquirer
  6. ^ "Moving-picture show of the region's past now forever preserved | Lehigh Valley Regional News". wfmz.com. 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2021-01-21 .
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-01-28. Retrieved 2017-05-24 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ News, Artnet. "A Small Pennsylvania Museum Merely Discovered It Has Owned a Rembrandt for 70 Years Without Knowing It". News.artnet.com. Retrieved 2021-01-21 .
  9. ^ Allentown finds it has a Rembrandt in its fine art museum, The Philadelphia Inquirer

External links [edit]

  • Allentown Art Museum Official Web Site.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright library images, from the Allentown Art Museum Web Site.
  • Google Map location for the museum.
  • Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Web Site.

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