Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 4 Passes
- Item Number
- 345
- Estimated Value
- 100 USD
- Sold
- 55 USD to hl65bbfb3
- Number of Bids
- 7 - Bid History
Item Description
The MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world; the collection encompasses nearly 450000 works of art. We welcome more than one million visitors each year to experience art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary, special exhibitions, and innovative educational programs.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is the fifth largest museum in the United States. It contains more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas. With more than one million visitors a year, it is the 43rd most-visited art museum in the world as of 2016.
Collection
A gallery of European art
The Museum of Fine Arts possesses materials from a wide variety of art movements and cultures. The museum also maintains a large online database with information on over 346,000 items from its collection, accompanied with digitized images.
Some highlights of the collection include:
Egyptian artifacts including sculptures, sarcophagi, and jewelry
Dutch Golden Age painting, including 113 works given in 2017 by collectors Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie
French impressionist and post-impressionist works by artists such as Paul Gauguin, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh, Cézanne
18th- and 19th-century American art, including many works by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Gilbert Stuart
Chinese painting, calligraphy and imperial Chinese art, including some of the most treasured paintings in Chinese history
The largest museum collection of Japanese works under one roof in the world outside Japan, including the Edward S. Morsecollection of 5,000 pieces of Japanese pottery, and the William Sturgis Bigelow collection of 20,000 woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e).
The Rothschild Collection, including over 130 objects from the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family. Donated by Bettina Burr and other heirs.
Item Special Note
* 4 passes to MFA Boston - expire on 6/30/18.
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