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The Indiana University Art Museum opened in 1941 under the direction of Henry Radford Hope.〔Baden, Linda J. Indiana University Art Museum: Dedication. Bloomington, IN: Museum, 1982. Print.〕 The museum was intended to be the center of a “cultural crossroads,” an idea brought forth by then-Indiana University President Herman B Wells.〔 The present museum building was designed by I.M. Pei and Partners and dedicated in 1982.〔 The museum’s collection comprises approximately 40,000 objects, with about 1,400 on display.〔Indiana University Art Museum. Indiana University Bloomington, 2004. Web. 21 May 2012. The museum is free and open to the public Tuesdays through Saturdays 10:00 a.m.—5pm, and Sundays noon–5:00pm, and is located on the Indiana University Bloomington campus at 1133 E. Seventh Street.〔 ==History== The Indiana University Art Museum opened in 1941 in a gallery space in Mitchell Hall under the newly appointed head of the Department of Fine Arts, Henry Radford Hope.〔Gealt, Adelheid M., Diane M. Pelrine, Adriana Calinescu, Judith A. Stubbs., and Jennifer A. McComas. Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum. Ed. Linda Baden. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 2007. Print.〕 The first exhibition, ''Sixteen Brown County Painters'', opened on November 21, 1941.〔 The catalog for the event contained a statement describing the goals of the gallery at the time:
Establishing a permanent collection did not come to fruition until after World War II. In 1955, art collectors James and Marvelle Adams gave Indiana University a terracotta bust by Aristide Maillol, which inspired Hope to revive the goal to create a permanent collection for an IU Art Museum.〔 The William Lowe Bryan Memorial Fund, a fund initiated by James Adams in honor of the university’s tenth president and in support for the blooming museum, financed almost all of the museum’s acquisitions in the early years.〔 Hope also contributed to the museum, giving a number of important works including Pablo Picasso’s The Studio.〔 In the formative years of the museum, the late 1950s, 60s, and 70s, gifts to the museum accumulated rapidly. The museum moved into the gallery space in the newly built Fine Arts building on campus, right next to the auditorium, in 1962.〔 Encouraged by then-University Chancellor Herman B Wells, the Board of Trustees of the university started budgeting a small amount for the museum each year, with additional special allocations for the Art Museum to grow the collection.〔 In 1968, Hope hired Thomas T. Solley as the museum’s Assistant Director. Solley became Director in 1971 after Hope retired.〔Gealt, Adelheid M., and Linda J. Baden, comps. A Transforming Vision: Thomas T. Solley (1924-2006) and the Indiana University Art Museum. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Art Museum, 2006. Print.〕 Solley, a trained architect, was perfectly suited to start the process of establishing a separate building for the art museum.〔 Wanting an architect with museum-design experience, Solley and the university gave the project to I.M. Pei and Partners in 1974.〔 Completed in 1982, the space has three galleries for permanent collections and one gallery for special exhibitions.〔 Solley grew the collection from 4,000 works to 30,000 in his years at the museum.〔 Thomas T. Solley resigned in 1986 and Adelheid M. Gealt was appointed director the following year. Gealt retired from the museum at the end of June 2015, at which point David A. Brenneman became the museum's Wilma E. Kelley Director.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indiana University Art Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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