USC Fisher Museum of Art
USC Fisher Museum of Art, formerly USC Fisher Gallery, which is affiliated with the University of Southern California, is the first art museum established in the city of Los Angeles. Founded in 1939 by Elizabeth Holmes Fisher, she donated 29 paintings at the beginning. When she died in 1955, the collection had grown to 74 paintings, drawings and sculptures by European and North American artists.
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USC Fisher Museum of Art
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- Elizabeth Holmes Fisher
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USC Fisher Museum of Art, formerly USC Fisher Gallery, which is affiliated with the University of Southern California, is the first art museum established in the city of Los Angeles. Founded in 1939 by Elizabeth Holmes Fisher, she donated 29 paintings at the beginning. When she died in 1955, the collection had grown to 74 paintings, drawings and sculptures by European and North American artists.
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In 1955, Armand Hammer donated to the museum a collection of 48 works by Dutch, Flemish, German, and Italian masters of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. In recent years, the 20th and 21st centuries collections are growing fast, not only in size, but in scope. The later collections span the medias of painting, prints, drawings, photography, and sculpture. Highlights of the collections include: Venus Wounded by a Thorn (ca. 1608-1610) by Peter Paul Rubens, St. John the Evangelist (1618-1620) by Anthony van Dyck (attributed to), Isabella Hunter formerly Mrs. Anne Downman (ca. 1776-1790) by Angelica Kauffmann, Emma, Lady Hamilton by George Romney, Mrs. Burroughs (1769) by Thomas Gainsborough, Femme Etandant Son Linge by Jean-François Millet, Richard Nixon (1972) by Andy Warhol, and Blacklist (1999) by Jenny Holzer.
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Bacchiacca - Portrait of a Woman and Child - Allegory of Liberality
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• Name — USC Fisher Museum of Art • Established — 1939 • Location — 823 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90089 (by USC campus) • Type — Art museum, University of Southern California • Director — Selma Holo • Website — fisher.usc.edu
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1939
USC Fisher Museum of Art established.
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USC Fisher Museum of Art is recorded from 1939.
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- 1.USC Fisher Museum of Art. 1000Museums.
- 2.USC Trojan Family Magazine - Winter 1998: The Legacy of Elizabeth Holmes Fisher. Usc.edu. 1999-02-26.
- 3.Elizabeth Holmes Fisher Collection | USC Fisher Museum of Art. Fisher.usc.edu.
- 4.Armand Hammer Collection | USC Fisher Museum of Art. Fisher.usc.edu.
- 5.20th and 21st Centuries Collections | USC Fisher Museum of Art. Fisher.usc.edu.
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USC Fisher Museum of Art is recorded as founded by Elizabeth Holmes Fisher. Associated with United States. Recorded from 1939.
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