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Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts At Auburn University a must see!

This is a mush see for everyone visiting the Auburn, AL area. They have so many awesome events geared towards everyone from kids to adults. My family loves this. Please check it out!

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art At Auburn University

901 South College Street (334) 844-1484 http://www.julecollinssmithmuseum.com/ Open Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Open Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission Charge.Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Home for Auburn University's permanent collection of American and European art. Includes eight exhibition galleries, gift shop, restaurant, auditorium and a series of formal gardens incorporating sculpture and water features. The museum's eight exhibition galleries are built to the strictest conservation standards. Each of the galleries is specially designed to complement a permanent collection with a reputation as one of the most outstanding in the Southeastern United States. The Louise Hauss and David Brent Miller Audubon Gallery has been specially designed to complement the museum's Audubon Collection. The museum's Louise Hauss and David Brent Miller Audubon Collection comprises one of America's most complete and finest collections by the noted nineteenth-century naturalist and selections from the collection are on continuous exhibit. This print collection provides an important focus for the museum's acquisitions and educational outreach efforts. In addition to the Audubon Collection, much of the museum's works-on-paper collection is available for viewing by appointment in the Louise Hauss and David Brent Miller Works on Paper Study Room, located on the museum's ground level.

Another significant aspect of the museum's permanent collection is the 36 paintings and drawings that constitute the museum's "Advancing American Art Collection." The collection has been labeled by experts as one of the most important collections of American art from the post-World War II era. Purchased by Auburn University in 1948 in what has been called "the art bargain of the century," the collection had been amassed two years earlier by the State Department and was intended to tour Europe and Latin America as a demonstration of the finest in American Art at the mid-century. The collection includes many of the best examples ever executed by such well-known figures of the American art scene as John Marin, Georgia O'Keefe, Ben Shahn, Arthur Dove, Ralston Crawford, Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden.

In addition to exhibiting its own rapidly expanding permanent collection, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art offers a varied and rich program of traveling exhibitions. Each of these exhibitions is accompanied by educational programming that includes lectures by noted authorities, special symposia, catalogs, guided tours and opening events.
Posted Friday Aug 17

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