The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) is a public museum in Jackson, Mississippi. It is the largest museum in Mississippi.
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| Location | 380 South Lamar Street Jackson, Mississippi |
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| Coordinates | 32°17′47″N 90°11′08″W / 32.29626°N 90.18569°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Website | www |
Location
editHistory
editThe Mississippi Art Association was founded in 1911.[2] By 1978, the Mississippi Museum of Art was founded, and it was located in the Arts Center of Mississippi until 2007.[1][2] In November 2025 the MMA acquired the midcentury Fountainhead residence in Jackson, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Usonian style.[4]
Permanent collection
editThe museum is the largest museum in Mississippi.[2] Its permanent collection includes paintings by American, Mississippi and British painters as well as photographs, collage artworks and sculptures.[5]
American painters
edit- Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902)[5]
- Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)[5]
- Arthur Bowen Davies (1863–1928)[5]
- Robert Henri (1865–1921)[5]
- George Inness (1825–1894)[5]
- Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000)[5]
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986)[5]
- Reginald Marsh (1898–1954)[5]
- Thomas Sully (1783–1872)[5]
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)[5]
Photography, collage and sculpture
edit- Romare Bearden (1911–1988)[5]
- William Beckwith (born 1952)[6]
- Alexander Calder (1898–1976)[5]
- Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012)[5]
- John DeAndrea (born 1941)[5]
- William Eggleston (born 1939)[5]
- Walker Evans (1903–1975)[5]
- Howard Finster (1916–2001)[5]
- Malvina Hoffman (1885–1966)[5]
- Paul Manship (1985–1966)[5]
- John Marin (1870–1953)[5]
- Reuben Nakian (1897–1986)[5]
- Cindy Sherman (born 1954)[5]
- Jimmy Lee Sudduth (1910–2007)[5]
- Sarah Mary Taylor (1916–2000)[5]
- Mose Tolliver (1920–2006)[5]
- Andy Warhol (1928–1987)[5]
Mississippi and Southern artists
edit- Gaines Ruger Donoho (1857–1916)[5]
- Eudora Welty (1909–2001)[5]
- Theora Hamblett[5]
- Ethel Wright Mohamed[5]
- Sulton Rogers[5]
- William Dunlap[5]
- Sam Gilliam[5]
- Birney Imes[5]
- Valerie Jaudon[5]
- Gwendolyn A. Magee[5]
- Ken Marlow[5]
- Ed McGowin[5]
- Lallah Miles Perry (1926-2008)[7][8]
- Tom Rankin[5]
- Walter Inglis Anderson (1903–1965)[5]
- Caroline Russell Compton[5]
- Marie Hull[5]
- Mary Katherine Loyacano McCravey[5]
- George E. Ohr (1857–1918)[5]
- Edgar Parker[5]
- William R. Hollingsworth, Jr. (1910-1944)[5]
References
edit- 1 2 "Mississippi Museum of Art". www.msmuseumart.org. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 Lee Ellis, Free Tours, Museums and Sites in America: Southern States Series, Americana Group Publishing, 2003, pp. 108-109
- ↑ Joseph M. Flora, Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, Todd W. Taylor, The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2002, p. 381
- ↑ Chen, Min (November 20, 2025). "Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Home Acquired by Mississippi Museum". artnet. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 "Mississippi Museum of Art". www.msmuseumart.org. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
- ↑ "Works – William Beckwith – Artists – eMuseum". mma.emuseum.com. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ↑ "Vanity" not dated, oil on canvas, Gift of the Lyle Cashion Company, 1963.005
- ↑ "Vogue for Two" not dated, watercolor on paper, Mississippi Art Association purchase, 1967.001