Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Museum of Fine Arts main entrance with the Appeal to the Great Spirit statue in the foreground | |
| Established | 1870 |
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| Location | 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
| Type | Art museum |
| Accreditation | American Alliance of Museums |
| Website | mfa.org |
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The museum has 500,000 objects[1] from prehistoric times to the present.[2]
The museum was first opened in 1870. In 1909 the collection was moved to 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston.[1]
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Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, (circa 1435-40)
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Rembrandt, The Artist in his Studio, (between 1626 and 1628)
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Diego Velázquez, Prince Balthasar Charles With a Dwarf, (1631)
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John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, (1778)
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Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Modern Rome , (1757)
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J. M. W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840
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John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, (1882)
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Claude Monet, Grainstack (Sunset), (1891)
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Mary Cassatt, In the Loge, (1878)
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Winslow Homer, The Fog Warning, 1885
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Museum of Fine Arts". Britannica. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ↑ "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, United States". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 28 August 2023.