The following list, the museums from New York to Los Angeles and everything is included, together with a recent survey of the most visited museums in the world art. Just quality speaks volumes museums to art or not, devoted to the United States. So I recommend you to visit my Twitter follow list of American museums for ideas of museums.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The edge of Central Park in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest museum in the United States, home to more than two million pieces in its collection curated by Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Late 2011 and early 2012, The Met his renovated American art and Islamic art galleries. It also houses here is the Costume Institute, the examples of forms through the centuries contains.
Hokusai "The Great Wave at Kanagawa (left), is a piece of Asian art collection of the signature collection Met include the Egyptian Temple of Dendur, an original 15bc stamp collection early European contains: see Must art works .. some of the biggest names - Caravaggio , Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Renoir, Gauguin, Monet.
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art, founded in 1937, the national collection of the United States of works of art in the National Mall in Washington, DC is housed. The museum is divided into East and West buildings, the first contains the majority of American and European museum collections, and one that modern and most of the time the special exhibition space art. The entrance to the National Gallery is free. (Note: The National Art Gallery is not under the jurisdiction of the Smithsonian Institution.)
Must See Art: NGA prized possession is the portrait of Ginevra de 'Benci by Leonardo da Vinci (left). This is the only painting by Leonardo in America.
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan contains a large collection of modern art and regular contemporary art exhibitions in its galleries, newly renovated. Some of the most famous of the 20th century by artists such as Van Gogh, Rousseau, Pollock, Picasso and grace the walls of the MoMA painting.
Tips for MoMA visitors: Please note that admission to MoMA's free Friday 08.04 clock (masses expect). The modern restaurant is only open for museum visitors, one of the best restaurants do not accept reservations is in New York The Modern.
Must See Art: Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is amazing to see in person. Other must see works are "The Sleeping Gypsy" by Henri Rousseau; "Number 31" by Jackson Pollock; "Flag" by Jasper Johns; Andy Warhol "Campbell Soup Cans".
J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum has two locations in Los Angeles. The Getty Center in Brentwood, is home to the collection of European painting before the 20th century furniture and sculptures and 19 photographs and 20th century in Europe and North America. It is designed in a building by architect Richard Meier, and its center was designed by Robert Irwin.
The Getty Center receives most of all visitors to the Getty Museum, Getty Villa, but is located in Pacific Palisades, is impressive. This is where Getty shows his collection of antiques, some of which are controversial (see the book "Chasing Aphrodite" [Compare Prices]) Must-See Art Van Gogh's "Iris" ,. "Venus with Cupid on a sea monster "John Deare; "Supper at Emmaus" by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi.
Art Institute of Chicago
Impressionists and Post-Impressionists are the strengths of the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the famous Museum in Grant Park in the city. The Art Institute also has a collection of African American art.
Safety Pin Art: Georges Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" (left) is a famous song from the collection of the Art Institute. In addition, there are many paintings by Monet, Manet, Cézanne, Renoir and Cassatt. In his American collection, looking Grant Wood "American Gothic".
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The more than 450,000 works of art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which is one of the largest museums in the United States. His most famous collections are American art, Egyptian art and French Impressionist paintings. Thanks for pairing with Boston Nagoya City, Japan Japanese art collection of the AMF (Edward S. Morse Collection) is the largest outside of Japan. Chinese art is also on display.
Must See Art: John Singleton Copley Portrait of Paul Revere (left). Also "Watson and the Shark," Copley Portrait of George Washington Gilbert Stuart; Works by Gauguin, Cézanne, Monet.
de Young Museum
This institution of Fine Arts in the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco is famous for its collection of American art, including a focus on art, especially California. The young museum also has an extensive collection of art from America, from pre-Columbian times to the 20th century, and Oceanic art. More than 13,000 textiles and costumes are important collection of textiles Young.
Artworks must see: Wayne Thiebaud "Three Systems" (left); "Prometheus Bound" by Thomas Cole; Edward Hicks' Peaceable Kingdom; "And" Miss California "by Albert Bierstadt.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMA, as it is called, is the largest art museum west of Chicago, with an estimated 100,000 works of art from antiquity to the present. Best for its American galleries that focus on known pre-Columbian and Latin American art. Thanks constantly warm weather LACMA has many temporary and permanent outdoor installations. It is noteworthy collections of Asian art, including his collection of art from Korea, which is the largest outside of Korea, and some religious pieces from Southeast Asia.
Must to see the art work :. LACMA New Stars of "Mass Levitation", blocks and sculpture of "Urban Light" by artist Michael Heizer's new flagship (left) Chris Burden.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The hotel is located in a unique building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright designed in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for its modern technology is known. Originally called the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, when it opened in 1939, the Guggenheim began with a collection of abstract works and non-US and European destinations. For its founding in 1952, famous for the Guggenheim now shows his abstract base collection and works of all genres of contemporary art, including Dada, Impressionism, pop art and surrealism.
Must See Art: Any number of works by Wassily Kandinsky, an artist who is dedicated to an entire gallery. "Paris through the window" by Marc Chagall; Amedeo Modigliani, "Nude"; Collection of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The most popular museum in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, located in downtown Washington, DC, in the gallery space. If here are works of all genres, from folk art painting colonial time. Every region of the United States
Significant works of art: Albert Bierstadt "Among the Sierra Nevada" (left); "Electronic Highway: Continental USA, Alaska, Hawaii," a video installation in the form of National Artist of Nam June Paik; Georgia O'Keefe "Manhattan"; and "Cape Cod Morning" by Edward Hopper.
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