Montgomery Museum Of Fine Arts Association

Permanent collection acquisitionsthe montgomery museum of fine arts is the premier art collecting institution in central alabama, serving the tri-county river region by exhibiting its collections for the benefit of the public. The collection focuses primarily on american art, however significant additions in other collecting areas are important to developing the collections, now numbering more than 5,000 objects. In fy 2023-2024, the museum acquired three paintings: george tooker, table i, 1959, egg tempera on wood panel, gift of the ida belle young art acquisition fund, 2023.8, douglas bourgeois, the enigma orchestra, 2005, oil on wood panel, montgomery museum of fine arts association purchase, 2023.9 and henry ossawa tanner, street in tangier, about 1912, oil on canvas, gift of the ida belle young art acquisition fund, 2024.1. The museum also acquired a major print by sculptor/printmaker willie cole, man spirit mask, 1999, triptych: photo-etching with embossing and hand-coloring on paper (left); screen print with lemon juice and scorching on paper (center); photo-etching and woodcut on paper (right), gift of charles m. Young fine prints & drawings llc., glastonbury, connecticut in memory of mark m. Johnson, mmfa director, 1994-2017 and montgomery museum of fine arts association purchase, 2024.2.1-.3.

Exhibitionsin addition to semi-permanent installations of art from the museum's permanent collection, the museum offers temporary exhibitions that range in length from 8 to 12 weeks. The caddell sculpture garden is an outdoor venue in which primarily loaned works of sculpture rotate on an 18 month to 2-year schedule.temporary exhibitionspresent tense, october 13, 2023, through january 7, 2024european splendors: old master paintings from the kress collectionoctober 13, 2023, through january 7, 2024spotlight: thomas daynovember 16, 2023, through march 17, 2024(un)settled: the landscape in american artjanuary 26 through april 14, 2024a beautiful mess: weavers & knotters of the vanguardjanuary 26 through april 14, 2024spotlight: alexander calderapril 11 to august 11, 2024really free: the radical art of nellie mae rowemay 3 through july 21, 2024portraits by carolyn sherer: southern women artists on creativity and agingmay 10 through august 11, 2024permanent collection exhibitionsfantastic prints and where to find themoctober 13, 2023, through december 31, 2024the healing can beginoctober 27, 2023, through january 28, 2024american views and visions: works on paper from the mmfa collectionjanuary 26 through april 7, 2024seen in americafebruary 2 through may 5, 2024art: invention: resonancemarch 3, 2024 through january 5, 2025artistic legacy: the influence of self-taught artists on modern and contemporary artapril 26 through july 14, 2024artistic freedom: the influence of self-taught artists on modern and contemporary art may 3, 2024 through july 14, 2024 art connectsaugust 9 through october 20, 2024art connects: circle of lifeaugust 9 through october 20, 2024frank spangler, sr.: drawing on experienceaugust 16 through november 17, 2024