The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south
of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles.
There are two major museum buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law Building and
the Audrey Jones Beck Building; two facilities for the Glassell School of
Art, the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School; two house
museums that exhibit decorative arts, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and
Rienzi; the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden; and 18 acres of
public gardens.
The collection contains more than 56,000 artworks, which date from antiquity to
the present. The major civilizations of Europe, Asia, North and South America, and
Africa are represented.
Italian Renaissance paintings, French Impressionist works, photographs, American
and European decorative arts, African and Pre-Columbian gold, American art, and
European and American paintings and sculpture from post-1945 are particularly
strong holdings.
