Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Location within Florida
Established 1978 (1978)
Location 1000 Holt Avenue
Winter Park, Florida
Coordinates 28°35′32″N 81°20′55″W / 28.59234°N 81.34862°W / 28.59234; -81.34862
Type Art[1]
Accreditation American Alliance of Museums
Collection size 5,000
Director Ena Heller, Ph.D.[1]
Curator Amy Galpin, Ph.D.
Website Cornell Fine Arts Museum

The Cornell Fine Arts Museum is located on the Winter Park campus of Rollins College and is the only teaching museum[2] in the greater Orlando area. The museum houses more than 5,000 objects ranging from antiquity through contemporary eras, including rare old master paintings and a comprehensive collection of prints, drawings, and photographs.[3] The museum displays temporary exhibitions on a rotating basis along with the permanent collection.

History

A collection composed of portraits of college notables and natural history artifacts was put together at Rollins College around the turn of the 20th century. In the 1930s, fine arts were added to the collection prompted, in part, by the gifs of two Italian Renaissance paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.[4] The first purpose-built museum on campus was the Morse Gallery of Art which opened in 1941. It was administered by Jeannette Morse Genius (who also provided the funds for the building) and her husband, Dr. Hugh McKean, who later became president of Rollins College (1951–69). In 197,6 George and Harriet Cornell donated the funds to construct a fine arts complex that would include a new museum. The Cornell Fine Arts Museum opened its doors in 1978, and three years later became Florida’s first college art museum to be accredited by the American Association of Museums (today the American Alliance of Museums).[5] The building underwent a significant expansion in 2004–5, and now includes six galleries and a print study room. A satellite exhibition space for the Museum's Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art was introduced in 2013 at The Alfond Inn—a philanthropic boutique hotel owned by Rollins College, whose proceeds help fund student scholarships.[6]

Collection

Collection totals over 5,000 objects ranging from antiquity through contemporary:

Highlights

Selected artists

Notes

  1. 1 2 MuseumsUSA. "Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida", MuseumsUSA website, 2007. Retrieved on November 18, 2007.
  2. Rollins 360, 2015. Retrieved on January 12, 2015
  3. Rollins College. , Rollins College website, 2015. Retrieved on March 2, 2015.
  4. Kress Foundation. Kress Foundation website, 2015. Retrieved on March 2, 2015.
  5. American Alliance of Museums
  6. Rollins College website, 2015. Retrieved on March 2, 2015.
  7. New York Times, March 16, 2015: Cedar Grove, Peabody Essex and Other Niche Museums Foray Into Contemporary Art
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