Philbrook Museum of Art

Philbrook Museum of Art

Infobox Museum
name = Philbrook Museum of Art



imagesize = 200
established = 1939
location = Tulsa, Oklahoma flagicon|USA
type = Art museum
visitors =
director = Randall Suffolk
curator =
website = [http://www.philbrook.org/ www.philbrook.org]
The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma is an art museum and former home of Oklahoma oil pioneer Waite Phillips and his wife Genevieve (Elliott) Phillips. As of 2007, the museum has a staff of 60 and an operating budget of nearly $6 million.Citation
last= Watts
first= James D.
date= 2007-03-29
title= Philbrook museum names new executive director
periodical= Tulsa World
url= http://www.tulsaworld.com/entertainment/article.aspx?articleID=070329_8_D1_spanc67873
]

History

An Italian Renaissance villa, the Philbrook was designed in 1926 by Kansas City architect Edward Buehler Delk. Construction on the mansion was begun the same year by the John Long Company of Kansas City and completed in 1927. Originally called Villa Philbrook, the home featured 72 rooms on 23 acres (93,000 m²) of grounds. The expansive grounds contain elaborate gardens inspired by Villa Lante, an Italian country estate north of Rome designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola in 1566. In 1938 the Villa Philbrook and surrounding gardens were given to the city of Tulsa by Waite Phillips in hopes that the estate would be used for art and cultural purposes. The immense house, with its spacious rooms, wide corridors and great halls, was a natural home for a museum and, due to its steel and concrete framework, minimal remodeling was required to transform the Villa into an art museum. In 1939 Villa Philbrook was opened to the public as The Philbrook Museum of Art.

Collection

The Philbrook Museum houses exhibitions from around the world, including one of the finest permanent collections of Renaissance and Baroque art and sculpture in the United States. It features work from such masters as Piero di Cosimo, Biagio d'Antonio da Firenze, Tanzio da Varallo, and Bernardo Strozzi. The Philbrook also features 19th century European artists, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, American artists Thomas Moran, William Merritt Chase, and Levi Wells Prentice. The museum is widely recognized for its outstanding Native American and African art collection.

Other features

*La Villa Restaurant at Philbrook
*The Museum Shop at Philbrook

References

External links

* [http://www.philbrook.org/ Philbrook Museum of Art]
* [http://www.oscarbach.org/tulsa.htm Bronze railings designed by Oscar Bach for Villa Philbrook]


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