The collections of the museum includes the Hamon Building collection amounting to $20 million and the Wendy and Emery Reves collection amounting to $38 million including 400 pieces of Egyptian and Nubian art forms.
The Reves collection is known to be housed in a 15,000 sq ft re-creation of the Reveses’ Villa La Paula home in Italy which is known to have originally housed the collections. There are paintings and sculptures including the works on paper by the leading impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modernist artists, including Cézanne, Daumier, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and van Gogh. While the other part of the building is devoted to the collections of the decorative arts and is known to include the Chinese export porcelain; European furniture; Oriental and European carpets; iron, bronze, and silver work; antique European glass; and rare books. This wing is also known to house the memorabilia of the Reveses’ friendship with English statesman Winston Churchill.
This museum located close to the art district is also known to share a close proximity with the other important cultural attractions which include the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Arts District Theater, the Ad-Libs Improvisational Comedy Theater, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, and the planned Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. For the dedicated art lovers this museum is a treat which definitely more time for exploration and for others dedicating a few hours is enough to explore its collections. Know more about the Dallas Museum of Art as you come across more information about the Dallas attractions.
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