$1 million gift endows Meadows Museum directorship
William and Linda Custard of Dallas A $1 million gift from Linda and William Custard of Dallas will establish and endow the position of Linda P. and William A. Custard Director of the Meadows Museum...
View ArticleTune In: Meadows Museum and its Prado partnership
As SMU’s Meadows Museum approaches its 50th anniversary in 2015, the University has created a video exploring its artistic and academic partnership with Madrid’s Museo del Prado. Enjoy the interviews,...
View ArticleSorolla and America opens in Meadows Museum Dec. 13, 2013
Self-Portrait, 1909, by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Spanish, 1863-1923), oil on canvas. Madrid, Museo Sorolla, 840. SMU’s Meadows Museum is co-organizing the first retrospective of work by Joaquín...
View ArticleMeadows Museum to host exhibition of masterworks from the House of Alba’s...
Charles V and the Empress Isabella, c. 1628. Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640). Oil on canvas. Colección Duques de Alba, Palacio de Liria, Madrid. SMU’s Meadows Museum will present a major...
View ArticleSMU’s Meadows Museum kicks off 50th anniversary with major survey of Goya prints
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828). Los Caprichos. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Plate No. 43, 1797-98. Etching and burnished aquatint on paper. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas....
View ArticleMeadows Museum celebrates 50th anniversary with blockbuster show from the...
Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920), Portrait of Constantine Brancusi (verso of previous image), 1909. Oil on canvas. P67 – 6/1987, Archive Abelló Collection (Joaquín Cortés). As part of its 50th...
View ArticleFirst major U.S. exhibition of masterworks from the House of Alba Collection...
The Duchess of Alba in White, 1795, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828) . Oil on canvas. Colección Duques de Alba, Palacio de Liria, Madrid. SMU’s Meadows Museum presents the first major...
View ArticleMeadows Museum acquires new Spanish masterwork: a remarkable child portrait...
A dog, a donut and a child in blue are hallmarks of the latest masterwork to join the collections of SMU’s Meadows Museum. The Museum has acquired the painting María Teresa del Castillo (1767-70), a...
View ArticleMeadows Museum curator solves mystery of the Spanish masterworks
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK7T2oJg5UM[/youtube]SMU’s Meadows Museum has concluded a lengthy investigation into the true identity and postwar provenance of two of the most famous...
View ArticleSMU’s Meadows Museum acquires late medieval altarpiece, now one of three...
In Pere Vall’s Saints Benedict and Onuphrius (c. 1410), the two saints stand before what appears to be a high stone settle decorated with arabesque vines and foliate ornament. On the left, Saint...
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