The Art Museum At The University Of Kentucky

Specialties

The University of Kentucky Art Museum is an encyclopedic museum that promotes the understanding and appreciation of visual art from a range of cultures and historical periods. We present significant temporary exhibitions, lectures, and educational programs throughout the year, and selections from our permanent collection of more than 4,800 works are always on view. This includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and functional objects by some of the world’s most renowned artists, including Ansel Adams, Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Albrecht Dürer, Louise Nevelson, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Andy Warhol.

The University of Kentucky Art Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.

History

Established in 1976.

art by acquiring Post-​Impressionist paintings by Emile Bernard and Maurice Denis, painters whose abstracted interpretations of reality serve as important counterweights to the naturalistic canvases by French Salon artists.

Subsequent directors – William Hennessey (1982 – 89), Harriet Fowler (1990 – 2001), Kathleen Walsh-​Piper (2002 – 2013) and current director Stuart Horodner (since 2014) continued to build on collection strengths through purchases and solicited gifts.