Boise Art Museum

Boise Art Museum

Entrance of BAM in 2016
Established 1937 (1937)
Location 670 Julia Davis Drive
Boise, Idaho
Coordinates 43°36′36″N 116°12′22″W / 43.609968°N 116.206243°W / 43.609968; -116.206243Coordinates: 43°36′36″N 116°12′22″W / 43.609968°N 116.206243°W / 43.609968; -116.206243
Type Art museum
Collection size 3,500 works[1][2]
Director Melanie Fales
Curator Nicole Herden [3]
Website www.boiseartmuseum.org
Boise Art Museum
Former names Boise Gallery of Art
General information
Architectural style Art Deco, Egyptian Revival, Postmodern
Construction started February 24th, 1934
Completed 1937
Renovated 1972, 1988, 1997
Design and construction
Architect Tourtellotte & Hummel (1937); Trout Architects and Mark Mack (1988); CSHQA (1997)

The Boise Art Museum (BAM) is located at 670 Julia Davis Drive in Boise, Idaho, and is part of a series of public museums and cultural attractions in Julia Davis Park. It is the permanent home of a growing collection of contemporary realism,[4] modern and contemporary ceramics,[5] as well as the largest public collection of works by acclaimed Idaho outsider artist and bookmaker James Charles Castle.[6] The museum also features major traveling exhibitions and installations throughout the year.

The museum began as the Boise Gallery of Art, opening in 1937 through a partnership between the City of Boise and the federal Works Progress administration[7] as a space for people living in the Boise area to see local artists, traveling exhibitions and artwork on loan. The museum’s original Art Deco and Egyptian Revival building was renovated in 1973 and again in 1988 when the name was changed to the Boise Art Museum and the museum’s focus shifted to the development of a permanent collection and educational programming. In 1997, the museum was expanded again to include larger administrative offices, storage, a sculpture court and educational studios.[8][9]

Today the Boise Art Museum is the only AAM accredited museum collecting fine art in Idaho[10] and functions as a center for fine arts in the Treasure Valley.

Collection

The Boise Art Museum began actively collecting in 1988 under curator Sandy Harthorn, who helped develop the permanent collection from 350 objects to 1,200 objects in 1991[11] and to 3,500 by her retirement in 2015.[12] The museum's collecting mission focuses on 20th century realism and ceramics from American, Northwest and Idaho artists.[13] The collection has, however, amassed objects from across the United States, Europe and East Asia as growth of the collection has relied largely upon donations from artists, galleries and collectors.[14] The breadth of the collection includes such artists as Fay Jones, Viola Frey, Richard Estes, Manuel Jerair Tolegian, Dale F. Walden, Otto and Vivika Heino, Gary Hill, Rod Kagan, Jun Kaneko, Jasper Johns, Michael Goldberg, Mark di Suvero, Pierre Daura, Andy Warhol, Rackstraw Downes, Billy Al Bengston, Pablo Picasso, Chuck Close, Sonja Blomdahl, Nancy Graves, Kenneth Callahan, Guy Anderson, Roy Lichtenstein, Susan Louise Shatter, Hung Liu, James Charles Castle, Diego Rivera, Akio Takamori, Robert Colescott, Xiaoze Xie, Thaddeus Holownia, Andrea Modica, Michael Kenna, Gennie DeWeese, Howard Kottler, Howard Kottler, Stephanie Wilde, Marie Watt, Imogen Cunningham, Laura McPhee, Roger Shimomura, Todd Hido, Héctor Xavier, Anne Appleby, Alden Mason, Roger von Gunten, Joseph Raffael, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell, Bruce Nauman, Beth Van Hoesen, Werner Drewes, Rick Bartow, Sol LeWitt, and Ansel Adams.

Architecture

Entrance of Boise Art Museum in 2016, designed by Trout Architects and Mark Mack in 1988

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.boiseartmuseum.org/bams-longtime-curator-of-art-sandy-harthorn-announces-retirement/
  2. ↑ The Idaho Statesman, Boise Art Museum turns 75 (Boise, Idaho) 11 December 2011
  3. ↑ http://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/arts-culture/arts-blog/article52350250.html
  4. ↑ The Idaho Statesman, Going Contemporary (Boise, Idaho) 21 May 2000, Pg. 1E, 6E
  5. ↑ The Idaho Statesman, Boise Art Museum turns 75 (Boise, Idaho) 11 December 2011
  6. ↑ http://artdaily.com/news/30599/Boise-Art-Museum-Opens-James-Castle-s-Tying-it-Together-
  7. ↑ The Idaho Statesman, Julia Davis Park: A Timeline, (Boise, Idaho) 17 June 2007, Pg. 04.
  8. ↑ http://www.boiseartmuseum.org/about/
  9. ↑ http://www.boisearchitecture.org/structuredetail.php?id=1714
  10. ↑ http://www.boiseartmuseum.org/about/
  11. ↑ The Idaho Statesman, Boise Art Museum turns 75 (Boise, Idaho) 11 December 2011
  12. ↑ http://www.boiseartmuseum.org/bams-longtime-curator-of-art-sandy-harthorn-announces-retirement/
  13. ↑ https://boiseartmuseum.org/exhibit/pc.php
  14. ↑ The Idaho Statesman, Boise Art Museum turns 75 (Boise, Idaho) 11 December 2011
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