Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens [1961- ]
ECA Control Number: 15288
Record Level: Listing
Record Type: Art Museum/Institution
Museum/Institution Name: Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
Aka: The Cummer ; Cummer Museum
Location(s): 829 Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32204
Founded: 1961
Closed/Acquired: not applicable
About:
The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens is a public museum located in Jacksonville, Florida. The collection is especially strong in European and American paintings and is supplemented by substantial holdings of Meissen porcelain.
On January 25, 2010, the Cummer Gardens were added to the National Register of Historic Places.[1]
The Museum opened in 1961 on the grounds of the former residence of Arthur and Ninah Cummer. There are three flower gardens on the museum grounds, the oldest dating back to 1903. The permanent collection of the Museum currently includes over six thousand works of art dating from 2100 b.c.e. to the twenty-first century.[2]
The Museum is housed in a series of twentieth-century buildings, opening onto the St. Johns River, a historic and active Florida waterway. In early 2002 the Museum began a series of initiatives to study its future space needs, and acquired the adjacent historic Woman’s Club of Jacksonville, a Tudor style residential building which will serve as a public programs and events center for the Museum.[3] The project received a 2009 award from the Jacksonville Historical Commission.
Citation: “Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens.”. Wikipedia. Updated May 27, 2016. Accessed October 3, 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummer_Museum_of_Art_and_Gardens
WORKS BY EMIL CARLSEN
EXHIBITIONS/SHOWS THAT INCLUDED WORKS BY EMIL CARLSEN (2)
AFTER CARLSEN’S DEATH (2)
1995 Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, “American Masterworks from the Norton Museum of Art”, May 18 – October 1.
1961 Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL, “The American Tradition in Painting”, November 10-December 31.
DURING CARLSEN’S LIFETIME (0)
Document Information
Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2016.15288
Digital Document Provenance:
Original compiled and researched document by the Emil Carlsen Archives, 266 West 21st Street, Suite 4E, New York, NY 10011.
Document License:
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Image License:
The author of this artwork died more than 70 years ago. According to U.S. Copyright Law, copyright expires 70 years after the author’s death. In other countries, legislation may differ.
Record Birth Date:
October 03, 2016
Last Update:
October 03, 2016
