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Recognized by the American Association of Museums as "a national model," the
Hood Museum of Art is one of the oldest and largest college museums in the
country, housing an outstanding collection of works of art and artifacts and
presenting a lively and diverse schedule of exhibitions and educational
programs. As the only institution of its kind in the region, the museum serves
as a vital cultural resource for the students, faculty, and staff of Dartmouth
College as well as the many rural communities of the Upper Connecticut River
Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont.
The Hood Museum of Art building,
which opened in 1985, was designed by award-winning architects Charles W. Moore
and Chad Floyd of Centerbrook Architects. In 1987 the building received the
American Institute of Architects Honor Award, the highest recognition for design
excellence in the architectural profession.
The Dartmouth collection represents nearly every area of art history and
ethnography and is particularly strong in:
* African art
* Oceanic
art
* Native North American art
* early American silver
* nineteenth-
and twentieth-century American painting
* European Old Master and nineteenth-
and twentieth-century prints
* contemporary art
**Note: Not all of the
following collections are on view. Please call for more information.
A
set of Assyrian reliefs from the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
(883-859 B.C. E.).
* The largest mural by José Clemente Orozco in
this country, The Epic of American Civilization (1932-34), housed in Baker
Library.
* A major collection of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century
landscape paintings of the White Mountains region of New Hampshire.
* The
Harry A. Franklin Family Collection of Oceanic Art, which numbers approximately
1,300 objects.
* Extensive holdings of works by the American painters
John Sloan and Paul Sample.
* Works by modern masters including Pablo
Picasso, Fernand Léger, Mark Rothko, Georgia O'Keefe, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan
Miro, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, and Alexander Calder.
* The Mr. and
Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr. Collection of Old Master Prints, including images by
Rembrandt, Dürer, and others.
http://www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu
Free.
The museum is located on the campus of Dartmouth College on Wheelock Street,
adjacent to the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts.
By
car
From Interstate 91 take exit 13 into Hanover.
From Interstate
89 take exit 18 and follow Route 120 north approximately 5 miles into Hanover,
turning left onto Wheelock Street.
By air
Service by several major
airlines is available to the Lebanon, NH, Regional Airport, located
approximately 15 minutes by car from Hanover.
Metered public parking is
available in front of the museum on Wheelock Street and behind the museum on
Lebanon Street
Derrick R. Cartwright, Director
Barbara MacAdam, Curator of American Art; Barbara Thompson, Curator of
African, Oceanic, and Native American Collections; T. Barton Thurber, Curator of
European Art; Katherine Hart, Barbara C. and Harvey P. Hood 1918 Curator of
Academic Programming, Juliette Bianco, Exhibitions Manager, Richard Gombar,
Chief Preparator; Nancy McLain, Business Manager; Leslely Wellman, Curator of
Education, Kellen Haak, Collections Manager/Registrar