Kimbell Art Museum 3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard Fort Worth Texas 761072792

Kimbell Art Museum

3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard , Fort Worth
Texas, United States

closed on: Mondays, July 4th, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New year's day's Twenty-four hour period
Museum Blazon: Fine art

The Kimbell Art Museum is a museum in Fort Worth, Texas, renowned for both its drove and its iconic buildings designed by Louis Kahn and Renzo Pianoforte.

The museum was founded in 1966;  the chief building, designed by Estonian-born American architect Louis Kahn (1901 – 1974), was opened in 1972; afterward, an 85,000 foursquare-foot addition, conceived by Italian architect Renzo Piano, was completed in 2013.

Pianoforte's (left) and Kahn's (right) buildings; photo Robert LaPrelle. © 2013 Kimbell Art Museum

Architectural model of the Kimbell Art Museum complex with the Kahn building of the left and the Piano Pavilion on the correct, photo by Notes from the West

Site plan, courtesy of RPBW

Louis Kahn's edifice
Louis Khan was commissioned to design the Kimbell Art Museum's main building on October v, 1966.
Kahn aimed to create a museum both "monumental" and adapted to the local context and climate, a edifice filled with natural light, that could be easily expanded in the future. The solution conceived by the American builder was a sequence of parallel modular galleries, covered past 100-human foot long barrel vaults supported by ii columns at each end; between a vaulted gallery and the subsequent one, there are smaller flat-roofed exhibition spaces, called side-galleries.
Each barrel vault is actually composed of two curved beams, made in prestressed concrete. In the heart of each vault, a narrow slot coupled with 2 curved, reflective lids conveys and diffuses the Texas intense daylight into the galleries.
Some galleries are cutting by modest square courtyards, while two of them are open on one side so to create the museum's archway porch.

On the basis floor, the Kahn building accommodates an entrance entrance hall, exhibition spaces, an auditorium, and a buffet, while the basement contains offices, storage spaces, and a library naturally lit through an array of light wells.

Many elements in the building – such every bit the use of barrel vaults and of a Travertine cladding,  the adoption of a sort of linear version of the Pantheon's oculus equally a natural lighting solution, and the introduction of modest rectangular pools and courtyards effectually and across the edifice  – reveal how much Kahn'south design of the museum was influenced by that Ancient Roman architecture he admired so much during his stay in Italy in 1950 as an architect in residence at the American Academy in Rome.

Kahn Edifice; photos Robert LaPrelle. © 2013 Kimbell Art Museum

Sketch by Louis Kahn, and wall section drawing, courtesy of Academy of Pennsylvania

Outside view with one of the pools which surround the Kahn building and an interior view of the cafe area; the second image clearly shows how the 100-human foot-long barrel vaults are supported only by columns at their reverse ends; photos past Bill Lile

One of the vaulted galleries, photograph Robert LaPrelle. © 2013 Kimbell Art Museum

A "side gallery", photo Robert LaPrelle. © 2013 Kimbell Art Museum

Interior views of the Kahn Building, the natural lighting system is visible in the middle of the vault, photo Robert LaPrelle. © 2013 Kimbell Art Museum

One of the courtyards in the Kahn Building, photo by Julie Delio

Renzo Pianoforte's Pavilion
In the early on 2000s, it became evident that the museum's collections and activities were growing so much that the Kahn building would have rapidly get too tight to accommodate them all.
Therefore, Renzo Piano, who incidentally had good in Kahn's Philadelphia role during the '60s, was commissioned to design an expansion aimed to adjust a new anteroom, temporary exhibition galleries, educational rooms, a library expansion, a 298-seat auditorium, a cafe, a shop, and an underground parking lot.

Pianoforte's edifice subtly echoes Kahn'due south one, especially in its layout and extensive utilize of natural lite; yet, it envisaged a more than transparent and visually "lite-weight" building.

Completed in 2013, the new pavilion is composed of two parts, a forepart wing which accommodates the archway lobby and two exhibition galleries, and a rear wing housing a third gallery, the auditorium, and an educational facility; the 2 parts are continued by two glazed passageways.

The new building is generally made in concrete, timber, metal, and glass – with square concrete columns which support timber beams, and a "smart roof", like to others designed by Piano, which provides natural lighting to the exhibition galleries through a system composed of glass panels, stretched fabric, and adjustable aluminum louvers.

Kimbell Art Museum, Piano Pavilion, south facade, photo © Nic Lehoux

Piano Pavilion, ground floor plan, courtesy of RPBW

Outside views of the pavilion, photos © Nic Lehoux

General and transverse sections, courtesy RPBW

Interior views of the temporary exhibition galleries and the auditorium in the Pianoforte Pavilion, photos © Nic Lehoux

Art Collection
The permanent collection of the Kimbell Fine art Museum is intentionally not very large – it comprises about 350 artworks, mostly paintings, sculptures, and objects of decorative arts, dating from the tertiary millennium B.C. to the mid-20th century – withal, all its pieces are of the highest quality and artistic relevance.

The drove encompasses 5 thematic areas: Antiquities, European Fine art, Asian Art, Precolumbian Art, and African and Oceanic Fine art.

The European section is particular noteworthy, information technology includes masterpieces by Duccio da Buoninsegna, Fra Angelico, Titian, Giovanni Bellini, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Parmigianino, Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Canaletto, Bernini, Tiepolo, Canova, El Greco, Poussin, Velázquez, Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Goya, Corot, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Gauguin, Braque, Munch, Picasso, Miró, Mondrian, Matisse, and Henry Moore, amongst others.
The Kimbell is also the only museum in the The states to concur a painting by Michelangelo, The Torment of Saint Anthony, circa 1487.

Works from the collection are displayed on rotation in the permanent exhibition galleries.

Kimbell Fine art Museum, permanent exhibition galleries, photos by Nib Lile

Permanent exhibition galleries in the Kahn Building; photos Robert LaPrelle. © 2013 Kimbell Art Museum

Southward gallery in the Piano Pavilion with works by La Tour, Caravaggio, and Poussin from the Kimbell's collection; photograph © Robert Polidori

Southward gallery in the Piano Pavilion with works by Michelangelo, Poussin, Velázquez, and Fra Angelico from the Kimbell's collection; photo © Robert Polidori

The museum organizes temporary exhibitions, guided tours, lectures, concerts, screenings, workshops, and educational programs for kids and adults.

The Kimbell Art Museum likewise includes ii auditoriums, two shops, a cafe, and a buffet restaurant; both museum buildings are attainable to people with disabilities.

Encompass photo by A den Tex

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