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The Dayton Art Institute (DAI) is a museum of fine arts in Dayton, Ohio, United States. The Dayton Art Institute has been rated one of the top 10 best art museums in the United States for children.[2] The museum also ranks in the top 3% of all art museums in North America in 3 of 4 factors.[3] In 2007, the art institute saw 303,834 visitors.[4]

Dayton Art Institute
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Forest and Riverview Aves., Dayton, Ohio
Coordinates	39°45′57″N 84°12′4″W
Area	6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built	1930
Architect	Edward B. Green
Architectural style	Renaissance, Italian Renaissance Revival
NRHP reference No.	74001579 [1]
Added to NRHP	November 19, 1974

History

Founded in a downtown mansion in 1919 as the Dayton Museum of Fine Arts, the museum moved to a newly designed Edward B. Green building in 1930. The DAI was modeled after the Casino in the gardens of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the front hillside stairway after the Italian Renaissance garden stairs at the Villa d'Este, near Rome, and Italy. It is also visible from and easily accessible from I-75, which passes through the center of Dayton.[5]

The museum was later renamed the Dayton Art Institute as an indication of the growing importance of its school in addition to the museum. The nearly 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m²) building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Museum information

The museum's collection contains more than 20,000 objects spanning 5,000 years. In September, 2005, the Museum became one of eleven galleries in the US to host The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt, the largest collection of ancient artifacts ever to travel outside Egypt.

The art museum is an Italian Renaissance–style building, which sits atop a hill overlooking downtown Dayton. The institute's highlights are the museum's Asian, 17th-century Baroque, 18th- and 19th-century American, and contemporary art collections. In addition to its collections, the museum frequently features other exhibitions.[6]

Notable works

Some of the most notable works held by the institute are:[7][8]

• The Song of the Nightingale by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
• Purple Leaves[9] by Georgia O'Keeffe
• Cantata by Norman Lewis
• Untitled[10] by Joan Mitchell
• Sea Change[11] by Helen Frankenthaler
• Untitled[12] by Louise Nevelson
• Louise Nevelson[13] by Alison Van Pelt
• Lost and Found[14] by Alison Saar
• Embroidery from Uzbekistan[15] by Janet Fish
• Sawdy[16] by Edward Kienholz
• Study Heads of an Old Man by Peter Paul Rubens
• High Noon by Edward Hopper
• Aurora Red Ikebana with Bright Yellow Stems by Dale Chihuly
• After the Bath by Edgar Degas
• Stacks in Celebration by Charles Sheeler
• Scene in Yosemite Valley by Albert Bierstadt
• Allegory of the Four Seasons by Bartolomeo Manfredi
• Water Lilies by Claude Monet
• American Indian Series (Russell Means) by Andy Warhol
• Homage to Painting by Roy Lichtenstein
• Shimmering Madness by Sandy Skoglund[17]

Gallery

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  Porto Venere by William Stanley Haseltine
  1878
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  The Song of the Nightingale by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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  Allegory of the Four Seasons by Bartolomeo Manfredi
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  King Abimelech Restores Sarah to her Husband, Abraham, Flemish tapestry by Frans Geubels
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  The Feast of Achelous by Jan Brueghel the Younger and Hendrick van Balen
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  Water Lilies by Claude Monet
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  High Noon by Edward Hopper

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Dayton, Ohio

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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[de] Dayton Art Institute

Das Dayton Art Institute (DAI) ist ein Kunstmuseum in Dayton im Bundesstaat Ohio in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Es ist unter anderem für seine Sammlung von Kunst der italienischen Renaissance bekannt, zeigt aber heute in ständigen und Sonderausstellungen ein weites Spektrum von Objekten der Kunst und Zivilisation der letzten 5.000 Jahre. Es wird zu den führenden Museen in den Vereinigten Staaten gezählt.[1] Im Jahr 2007 besuchten mehr als 300.000 Besucher das Museum.[2]

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- [en] Dayton Art Institute

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