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The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block (TMA) is an art museum and art education institution in Southern Arizona. Located in the Presidio District of downtown Tucson, the museum comprises 74,000-square-feet of exhibition space over a four-acre city block that includes a contemporary main museum and 19th C. historic homes that have been adapted for reuse as the Museum restaurant, pottery school, and galleries. The Museum concurrently presents eight to nine exhibitions including international and traveling exhibitions, TMA-curated exhibitions, and ongoing exhibitions of permanent collections. TMA's collection of more than 8,000 objects is focused on modern and contemporary art, Latin American, Western and Native American, and Asian art. The Museum has served as a community art education venue since its inception in 1924. Art education has continued as a major function of the Museum through museum staff and a docent organization that carries out education and outreach programs. The Museum's campus of landscaped plazas host community and private events including artisans markets, festivals, live performances, an annual ''Día de los Muertos'' event, weddings, high school proms, award ceremonies, and other community events. The Museum hosts Creative Space, an interactive space for children and families. The Museum campus includes Cafe a la C'Art, a full service restaurant and bakery that was ranked one of the top museum restaurants in the United States by ''Food & Wine Magazine.'' and the Museum Store, featuring original art and craft work by local and regional artists and artisans. In 2015, the Tucson Museum of Art was named one of the Top Western Art Museums in the United States by ''True West'' magazine. == History == Founded March 20, 1924 in the Presidio District of downtown Tucson, Arizona as the Tucson Fine Arts Association (TFAA), it was created by members of the Tucson Women's Club and 50 other Tucsonans. TFAA was initially a gallery and monthly lecture space. After the inauguration of the new Scott Avenue Temple of Music and Art in October 1927, the group relocated to the upstairs Temple Gallery. Exhibitions expanded and in 1941 TFAA presented ''Southwestern Oils'', featuring works and a lecture series given by noted artist, Maynard Dixon, hinted of its imminent growth into a major new art museum. In 1947 artists and craftspeople. presented, ''A New Look at Art'', the city's first non-juried exhibition of local artists. The exhibition drew 7,412 visitors. The Craft Show was introduced in 1950, which became the ''Arizona Biennial'', now the longest-running statewide biennial art exhibition in the state. In 1967 the organization that would become the Tucson Museum of Art started a permanent collection based on several major donations. These gifts included significant collections of pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, and Western American art donated by Mr. and Mrs. Clay Lockett, Mr.and Mrs. John Frikart, as well as Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Cele Peterson. The largest donation was from Frederick R. Pleasants, whose pre-Columbian collection,"features nearly 600 objects including jewelry, ceremonial vessels, figurines, masks, sculptures, textiles, and feather arts. Collectively, the works represent approximately 3,000 years of history and 30 cultures spanning Mesoamerica (Mexico south through Central America, today’s Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and El Salvador), the Intermediate Area (Panama, parts of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador), and Central Andean region (Peru and Bolivia)". Designed by Andy Anderson, a principal architect of the Tucson architecture firm founded by William Wilde, the main Museum was opened May 1, 1975 with the inaugural exhibition, ''Tucson Collects'', which included loaned works from 43 personal collections of Tucsonans. Spanning 2000 years of art, representing works of art from Spanish Colonial to paintings and prints by Picasso,Thomas Gainsborough, Jonathan Copley, Renoir, Monet, Gilbert Stuart, and Emile Pissaro. The museum drew 50,000 visitors in its first year. Reminiscent of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Tucson Museum's main galleries are arranged as an open downward spiral around a "well" at the center that connects the levels and ramps. TMA has curates original exhibitions drawing upon local collections. local artists, and regional history and presents contemporary traveling exhibitions. In 2014-2015 the TMA-curated exhibition, ''The Figure Examined: Masterworks from the Kasser Mochary Art Foundation'' broke previous attendance records for a single exhibition with more than 30,000 visitors. The exhibition featured works by Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, and Henri Matisse, as well as works by Mary Cassatt, Lynn Chadwick, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Jóseph Csáky, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Edgar Degas, Eugene Delacroix, Raoul Dufy, Paul Gauguin, Alberto Giacometti, Francisco Goya, Oskar Kokoschka, Jacques Lipchitz, Edouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Diego Rivera, Egon Schiele, Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Andy Warhol, and Max Weber. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tucson Museum of Art」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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