Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Museum of Fine Arts main entrance with the Appeal to the Great Spirit statue in the foreground |
Established | 1870 (1870) |
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Location | 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
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Type | Art museum |
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Accreditation | American Alliance of Museums |
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Website | mfa.org |
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The Museum of Fine Arts (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]
Gallery
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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