Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The museum has 500,000 objects[1] from prehistoric times to the present.[2]
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![]() Museum of Fine Arts main entrance with the Appeal to the Great Spirit statue in the foreground | |
Established | 1870 |
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Location | 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Type | Art museum |
Accreditation | American Alliance of Museums |
Website | mfa |
The museum was first opened in 1870. In 1909 the collection was moved to 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston.[1]
Gallery
- Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, (circa 1435-40)
- Rembrandt, The Artist in his Studio, (between 1626 and 1628)
- Diego Velázquez, Prince Balthasar Charles With a Dwarf, (1631)
- John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, (1778)
- Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Modern Rome , (1757)
- J. M. W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840
- John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, (1882)
- Claude Monet, Grainstack (Sunset), (1891)
- Mary Cassatt, In the Loge, (1878)
- Winslow Homer, The Fog Warning, 1885
References
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