The Newark Museum of Art
|established= 1909 |location= 49 Washington StNewark, New Jersey, U.S. |director= Linda C. Harrison |publictransit= Washington Park Station (Newark Light Rail) |website= [http://www.newarkmuseum.org newarkmuseum.org] |embedded= | designated_other1_name = New Jersey Register of Historic Places | designated_other1_abbr = NJRHP | designated_other1_link = New Jersey Register of Historic Places | designated_other1_date = February 10, 1977 | designated_other1_number = 1275 | designated_other1_num_position = bottom | designated_other1_color = #ffc94b }} }} The Newark Museum of Art, formerly known as the Newark Museum, in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey is the state's largest museum. It holds major collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia (including a large collection of Tibetan art), Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world. Its extensive collections of American art include works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Joseph Stella, Tony Smith and Frank Stella.
In addition to its extensive art collections, The Newark Museum of Art is dedicated to natural science. It includes the Dreyfuss Planetarium and the Victoria Hall of Science which highlights selections from the museum's 70,000 specimen Natural Science Collection. The Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden, located behind the museum, houses numerous works of contemporary sculpture and is the setting for community programs, concerts and performances. The garden is also home to a 1784 old stone schoolhouse and the Newark Fire Museum.
The museum was founded in 1909 by librarian and reformer John Cotton Dana. As the charter described it, the purpose was "to establish in the City of Newark, New Jersey, a museum for the reception and exhibition of articles of art, science, history and technology, and for the encouragement of the study of the arts and sciences." The kernel of the museum was a collection of Japanese prints, silks, and porcelains assembled by a Newark pharmacist.
Originally located on the fourth floor of the Newark Public Library, the museum moved into its own purpose-built structure in the 1920s on Washington Park after a gift by Louis Bamberger. It was designed by Jarvis Hunt, who also designed Bamberger's flagship Newark store. Since then, the museum has expanded several times, to the south into the red brick former YMCA and to the north into the 1885 Ballantine House, by a four-year, $23 million renovation. In 1990, the museum expanded to the west into an existing acquired building. At that time much of the museum, including the new addition, was redesigned by Michael Graves.
The museum had a mini-zoo with small animals for some twenty years, until August 2010.
For the security of climate-sensitive artwork, the museum closed its front entrance to the public in 1997 to minimize the effects of temperature and humidity changes. However, in February 2018, after extensive renovation and the construction of a ramp for disabled access, the front doors were reopened.
On November 6, 2019, the museum changed its name to "The Newark Museum of Art" to highlight the focus of the museum on its art collection which was ranked 12th in the country.
The Newark Black Film Festival was founded in conjunction with the Museum and was formerly held every summer on the Museum campus.
The museum is open daily from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Provided by Wikipedia
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Black artists: two generations : [exhibition held at] the Newark Museum, May 13-Sept. 6, 1971.
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In praise of heroes : contemporary African commemorative cloth : an exhibition at the Newark Museum, September 14, 1982-February 27, 1983 / by Spencer, Anne M.
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The movies begin : making movies in New Jersey, 1887-1920 / by Spehr, Paul C.
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Jewelry : from pearls to platinum to plastic /
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American art in the Newark Museum : paintings, drawings, and sculpture.
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Max Weber, retrospective exhibition, October 1-November 15, 1959, the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey.
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Nineteenth century master drawings. : [Exhibition] Mar. 16-Apr. 30, 1961.
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The movies begin : making movies in New Jersey, 1887-1920 / by Spehr, Paul C.
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Great pots : contemporary ceramics from function to fantasy / by Dietz, Ulysses G. (Ulysses Grant), 1955-
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Old master drawings. : [Exhibition] March 17-May 22, 1960.
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A survey of American sculpture: late 18th century to 1962. : [An exhibition, May 10-Oct. 20, 1962, the Newark Museum.
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American bronze sculpture, 1850 to the present / by Reynolds, Gary A.
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Arts of global Africa : the Newark Museum collection /
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Seeing America : native artists of North America / by Green, Adriana Greci, Bloom, Tricia Laughlin
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Seeing America : the arc of abstraction /
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A world of their own : twentieth century American folk art / by Jacobs, Joseph, 1946-
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Off limits : Rutgers University and the avant-garde, 1957-1963 /
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From the collection of Mrs. C. Suydam Cutting : paintings, drawings, prints. An exhibition at the Newark Museum, February 8-April 25, 1954.
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Catalogue of the Tibetan collection and other Lamaist articles in the Newark Museum.
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American art in the Newark Museum : paintings, drawings, and sculpture.
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