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from diverse cultures around the world. The museum has four floors of galleries that house the permanent collection, as well as the Cunningham Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. The center houses more than 1,600 drawings and over 5,700 photographs spanning the history of the
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Reflective of diverse student body of the college and campaigns to raise awareness of underrepresented groups of women, the museum has been actively procuring artworks by female artists and female artists of color. Notable figures represented include
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in 1912, Smith was one of the only sixty-eight American institutions of higher learning with a professorship in art history. The museum is often utilized as a learning space for students, especially those who enroll in art-related courses.
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The Brown Fine Arts Center opened in 2003 after a two-year, $ 35 million building renovation, and now houses the art library, Art Department, as well as the Smith College Museum of Art. Designed by the New York-based
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Throughout the years, the museum collection has expanded to include nearly 25,000 works of art, including a diverse collection of non-Western art. The institution is widely known for its collection of
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in the 1870s, has evolved to become one of the most respected programs in American undergraduate education. Notable faculty members have included
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The Smith College Museum of Art was first established in 1870, and has been led by many notable directors over the years, including
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to contemporary printmakers. In addition, the museum also features two bathrooms designed by artists
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The Smith College Museum of Art has an extensive collection, which includes
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museum, and an extensive collection of more than 8,000 prints by
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of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including works by
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True Proportion: Teaching the History of Art at Smith College
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Brown Fine Arts Center: An Architecture of Transformation
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View of the Elm Street façade of the Smith College Museum of Art.
Northampton
Massachusetts
Coordinates
42°19′07″N 72°38′11″W / 42.3185°N 72.6364°W / 42.3185; -72.6364
Art museum
American Alliance of Museums
Jessica Nicoll
Polshek Partnership Architects
Smith College
Official website
art museum
Smith College
Northampton
Massachusetts
American Alliance of Museums
Five College Consortium
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American
European art
Albert Bierstadt
Paul Cézanne
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Gustave Courbet
Edgar Degas
Claude Monet
John Singer Sargent
Georges Seurat
Jere Abbott
Henry-Russell Hitchcock

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