Shaping the Future, Celebrating the Past
The Muskegon Museum of Art holds an internationally recognized permanent collection of art, boasting important works by artists such as Edward Hopper, John Steuart Curry, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Winslow Homer, Elizabeth Catlett, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre Bonnard. Begun in 1910, today the collection features paintings, prints, drawings, watercolors, sculpture, glass, and decorative arts covering a wide range of genres and time periods. A collecting institution, the MMA continues to acquire, through gift and purchase, both historic and contemporary art as a vital component of its mission. Through the summer of 2020, all of our galleries will highlight and explore the various facets of our collection, celebrating our most recognized masterworks and bringing out more rarely seen objects that define over 100 years of collecting.
As the MMA looks to the next hundred years, join us in celebrating and exploring this renowned Muskegon treasure.
Shaping the Future, Celebrating the Past: Timeline
Robert D. and C. Corcoran Tuttle Gallery
Illustrated timeline and drawings celebrate the past with drawings and other materials that reveal plans for the future
Laying the Cornerstone, October, 2011
Glass: Treasures from the Permanent Collection
L. C. and Margaret Walker A Gallery
Major exhibition showcasing works by many of the artists that defined the studio glass movement along with works made by today’s new masters
Underwritten by DTE Energy Foundation, Fifth Third Bank, Hines Corp., Nichols, Lorin, Northern Trust, and Anonymous
Stephen Rolfe Powell
Lurid Gasp Johnson
Blown glass, 1999
Gift of Robert D. and C. Corcoran Tuttle. 2005.1
Tiffany Group
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Secundino R. Veiga
The Arts of Japan
L. C. and Margaret Walker B Gallery
Japanese ceramics and print collection
Underwritten by The Hilt Foundation and Michael & Patricia Wade
Sumida Ware (Japanese, circa 1890-1941)
Thousand and One Monkey Vase (detail)
Glazed ceramic, not dated
Gift of George and Martha Hilt. 1997.189
Pictures of the Best Kind
Bettye Clark Cannon Gallery
The MMA’s most recognized and celebrated works of art by contemporary and historic artists
Underwritten by PNC Bank
Camille Pissarro, French, 1830-1903
La Ferme (The Farm), 1879, oil on canvas
Gift of the L.C. and Margaret Walker Foundation, 1976.18
From Dürer to Rembrandt: Five Centuries of Art and Faith
Theodore and Joan Operhall Gallery
Works on paper from the earliest days of printmaking in 15th-century Germany and 17th-century Holland along with paintings by Dutch, German, and Swedish artists demonstrate the significant influence of faith on the advancement of art.
Joos van Cleve (Flemish, circa 1485-circa 1540)
St. Jerome in Penitence
Oil on wood panel
circa 1516-18
Hackley Picture Fund Purchase. 1940.47
Graphic: 19th- and 20th-Century Prints and Watercolors
Theodore and Joan Operhall Gallery
Examples from the golden age of printmaking in late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe to the etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, and screenprints of today
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)
The Mandolin Player
Etching on paper, circa 1889
Purchase, L.C. and Margaret Walker Fund. 1949.13
The Artist’s Lens: 20th- and 21st-Century Photography
Alcoa Foundation/Ernest and Marjorie Cooper Gallery
Photography by nationally and internationally recognized photographers, including a selection of prints from Edward Curtis’s photographic masterpiece The North American Indian, as well as our own Michigan artists.
Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868-1952)
Placating the Spirit of a Slain Eagle – Assiniboin
Photogravure on Holland paper, copyright 1926
Purchased by subscription, transferred from the Hackley Public Library and Muskegon Public Schools. 2014.6.634
A Living Legacy: Modern and Contemporary Art
Michael and Kay Olthoff/Thelma and Paul Wiener Gallery
Modern pieces that bridge the distance between our early paintings and today’s art and works by contemporary artists
Maria Tomasula (American, born 1958)
Please Don’t Go
Oil on panel, 2010
Purchased in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Muskegon Museum of Art, through the Shaw and Betty Walker Foundation Fund. 2012.8
