Fresno Art Museum

Fresno Art Museum

The Fresno Art Museum is an art museum in Fresno, California. The museum's collection includes contemporary art, modern art, Mexican and Mexican-American art, and Pre-Columbian sculpture.[1]

History

According to the museum website, the museum descends from the Fresno Art League, a group of local artists that was founded in the late 1940s and that gathered sufficient community support to incorporate as the Fresno Art Center in 1949 and to erect an Art Center building in Radio Park in 1960. The American Association of Museums granted the Art Center accreditation in 1973. In 1985 the name was changed to Fresno Arts Center and Museum, and in 1988 changed again to Fresno Art Museum.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Michaelson, Judith (6 April 1993). "Central Valley's Fresno: Home of Raisins--and Art?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Museum History". Fresno Art Museum. Retrieved 8 November 2015.

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Coordinates: 36°46′15″N 119°46′26″W / 36.7708°N 119.7739°W / 36.7708; -119.7739

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