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| Established | 1960 |
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| Location | Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines |
| Coordinates | 14°38′24″N 121°4′38″E / 14.64000°N 121.07722°E |
| Type | University museum |
| Director | Ma. Victoria "Boots" Herrera |
| Website | ateneoartgallery |
The Ateneo Art Gallery is a museum of modern art of the Ateneo de Manila University. It is the first of its kind in the Philippines.[1] It serves as an art resource for the university community and the general public as well. The Gallery is located at the Arts Wing, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City.
Widely recognized today as the first museum of Philippine modern art, The Ateneo Art Gallery was established in 1960 through Fernando Zóbel's bequest to the Ateneo of his collection of works by key Filipino post war artists.[2] Through the years other philanthropists and artists followed Zobel's initiative, filling in the gaps so that the collection now surveys every Philippine art movement in the post war era: from neo-realism and abstract expressionism to today's post-modern hybrid tendencies. The Gallery's fine prints and drawings consist of over 300 works by local and international artists from the Renaissance to the present. The etchings, engravings, woodcuts, lithographs and other graphic-arts media represent over 80 artists, including Rembrandt, Goya, Delacroix, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso.
- ^ Paras-Perez, Rodolfo; Pilar, Santiago Albano; Torres, Emmanuel (2004). Pioneers of Philippine Art: Luna, Amorsolo, Zobel. Ayala Foundation. p. 108. ISBN 978-971-8551-39-4.
- ^ Samuya Veric, Charlie (2017). "Fernando Zobel and the making of the Ateneo Art Gallery: modern art, postcolonial statehood, and the utopian imagination in twentieth-century Philippines". Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia. 7.1: 25–42.