John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is located in Florida
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Location within Florida
Location
Coordinates27°22′59″N 82°33′33″W / 27.383067°N 82.559165°W / 27.383067; -82.559165
TypeArt museum
ArchitectJohn H. Phillips[1]
Public transit accessSarasota County Area Transit
Websiteringling.org

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is the official state art museum of Florida,[2] located in Sarasota, Florida.[3] It was established in 1927 as the legacy of Mable Burton Ringling and John Ringling for the people of Florida. Florida State University assumed governance of the museum in 2000.[4]

The institution offers 21 galleries of European paintings as well as Cypriot antiquities and Asian, American, and contemporary art. The museum's art collection currently consists of more than 10,000 objects that include a variety of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts from ancient through contemporary periods and from around the world. The most celebrated items in the museum are 16th–20th-century European paintings, including a world-renowned collection of Peter Paul Rubens paintings.[5] Other artists represented include Benjamin West, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Kostabi, Diego Velázquez, Paolo Veronese, Rosa Bonheur, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Giuliano Finelli, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Nicolas Poussin, Joseph Wright of Derby, Thomas Gainsborough, Eugène Boudin, and Benedetto Pagni.

In all, more than 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) have been added to the campus, which includes the art museum, circus museum, and Ca' d'Zan, the Ringlings' mansion, which has been restored, along with the historic Asolo Theater. New additions to the campus include the McKay Visitor's Pavilion, the Kotler-Coville Glass Pavilion exhibiting studio glass art, the Johnson-Blalock Education Building housing The Ringling Art Library and Cuneo Conservation Lab, the Tibbals Learning Center complete with a miniature circus, the Searing Wing, a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) gallery for special exhibitions attached to the art museum, the Chao Center for Asian Art, and the Monda Gallery for Contemporary Art.[6][7]

  1. ^ "History of The Museum of Art". The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Florida State University. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
  2. ^ "The Ringling". Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  3. ^ "Title XLVIII, 1004.45(2)(a) 2006 Florida Statutes". Archived from the original on 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2015-09-16.
  4. ^ FSU article, 06/28/2004. Archived December 8, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Peter Paul Rubens, Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries". ArtCyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Vision was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "History of The Ringling". The Ringling. Retrieved 2020-09-01.