Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is one of the largest art museums in the United States and the largest cultural institution in the southwestern United States. Founded in 1900, the museum’s main campus in the Houston Museum District comprises two gallery buildings, the Audrey Jones Beck Building and the Caroline Wiess Law Building, connected by the underground Tunnel Gallery, as well as the Glassell School of Art and the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden. The encyclopedic collection contains approximately 70,000 works spanning 6,000 years of history, with particular strengths in Renaissance and Baroque European painting, 19th-century French art, American art, Latin American art, African and pre-Columbian gold, and photography. The museum features masterpieces by Canaletto, Guardi, Rembrandt, Rubens, Goya, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso, and Rothko. The MFAH is particularly renowned for its exceptional Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell collections, its outstanding holdings of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, and its pioneering commitment to photography as fine art.
