The Fralin Museum of Art

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The Fralin Museum of Art is an art museum at the University of Virginia. The museum is open to the public Tuesdays through Sundays and admission is free. The Fralin serves as a teaching museum to UVA students and has an extensive outreach program in Charlottesville and central Virginia. The museum maintains a collection of nearly 14,000 objects including European and American paintings, photography, works on paper, African art, and American Indian art. Many of the museum's works are available online for viewing and research. [1] [2] [3]

Matthew McLendon became director and chief curator on January 9, 2017. [4][5] On March 29, 2018 it was announced that the museum directorship would be endowed with a gift of $2 million from the J. Sanford Miller family and matched with $1 million from the UVA Bicentennial Professors Fund. This was the first Bicentennial Professorship created since the announcement of the program the year before. [6]

History

The Thomas H. Bayly building on Rugby Road was funded by a bequest from Evelyn May Bayly Tiffany in honor of her father, a University of Virginia alumnus. The building was to be used for a university art museum and was designed by Edmund S. Campbell, who was at the time dean of the School of Architecture at UVA. [7]

In August 1933, it was announced that the University of Virginia's proposed new art museum was the number one state building priority. Construction of the building was estimated to cost $140,000 and would employ 50 men per day, who would be paid "not less than 45 cents per hour." [8] [9]

The museum was closed during World War II and reopened in 1946. During the 1960s and early 1970s, the Bayly building was used as classroom space for art and architecture. The museum reopened in 1974 with a new director and curator. [10]

In 2012, the UVA Art Museum was renamed The Fralin Museum of Art in honor of Heywood and Cynthia Fralin after the Fralins announced their plan to donate their collection of American art to the museum. The gift includes works by Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and Robert Henri, and is the most significant gift of art in the University's history. [11]

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References

  1. Web. Visit
  2. Web. Programs
  3. Web. About the Collection
  4. Web. UVA Selects Matthew McLendon as Director of The Fralin Museum of Art, Press Release, WVIR NBC 29, November 8, 2016, retrieved November 8, 2016.
  5. Web. The Fralin Museum of Art Welcomes New Director Matthew McLendon
  6. Web. Major Gift Will Endow Fralin Museum Art Director Position, UVA Today, March 29, 2018
  7. Web. Campbell Named as Survey Head, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, January 10, 1934, retrieved February 23, 2023. Print. January 10, 1934 page 3.
  8. Web. History
  9. Web. Art Museum is Project Number One in Virginia Building Plan, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, August 24, 1933, retrieved May 6, 2019. Print. August 24, 1933 page 10.
  10. Web. History
  11. Web. UVA Names Art Museum for Cynthia and Heywood Fralin, UVA Today, May 12, 2012

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