The Parrish Art Museum is an art museum in the United States located in Water Mill, Suffolk County, New York. The museum has a wide range of works by artists from the art colonies of South Shore and North Shore , located on Long Island . Since 2008, the head of the museum is Terrie Sultan , succeeding Trudy Kramer , who has worked as a director for 26 years.
| Parrish Art Museum | |
|---|---|
 Museum in 2012 | |
| Established | 1897 year |
| Location | |
| Address |  USA : Water Mill , New York |
| Visitors per year | |
| Director | Terrie sultan |
| Site | parrishart.org |
History
The museum was founded in 1897 by Samuel Parrish ( English Samuel Longstreth Parrish ), a successful lawyer and Quaker [1] , who began to collect works of art in the early 1880s, founded in his own. The museum building was designed by architect om Grosvenor Atterbury and built in 1897 in the town of Southampton in Suffolk County, New York. One of the reasons for the creation of the museum was the opening by the artist William Chase of a nearby summer school in Shinnekok Hills .
The museum building expanded twice - in 1902 and 1913. After the death of Parrish in 1932, the building and collection were bequeathed to Southampton, but without the efforts of the owner, the museum ceased to flourish. That was until the 1950s, when the Board of Trustees was created, led by Rebecca Bolling Littlejohn . Recognizing the importance of this cultural institution, she launched a campaign to strengthen the museum’s funds, which began to revive. After her death, the museum totaled more than 300 artworks. In 1981, almost 200 works of art by the local artist Fairfield Porter (1907-1975), donated by his wife Anna in memory of her husband, were added to it. For a long time, many of the museum’s works were in storage, as there was not enough exhibition space. In 2000, the museum acquired the Rogers Memorial Library , which moved to another location. $ 1.1 million of the more than $ 3 million donated by Carroll Petrie was spent on the new building. [2]
However, these buildings were still small for the museum collection. In 2012, the museum's exhibits were moved from Southampton to Water Mill in the same district in a new original building designed by the Swiss architectural bureau Herzog and de Meron . The exhibition area of the museum is more than 1000 m², with a total building area of more than 3000 m².
Currently, the museum's collection includes more than 3,000 works of art from the 19th century to the present - American artists and sculptors.
Notes
- ↑ Robert Pogrebin (July 23, 2006), The New Parrish Art Museum Was Designed With Light in Mind New York Times
- ↑ Russeth, Andrew Parrish Art Museum Sells Building for $ 2.9 M., Readying for Move to Water Mill . GalleristNY (November 9, 2012). Date of treatment November 14, 2012. (English)