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The Museum's core collection originated with Dr. Dahesh (tr. and abroad.

Chartered in 1987, the Dahesh Museum of Art is the only institution in the United States devoted to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting works by Europe's academically-trained artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. "Inspiring Wonder"), the pen name of the late Salim Moussa Achi (1909–1984), an influential Lebanese writer, philosopher, and connoisseur, in whose honor the Museum is named.

The Dahesh Museum of Art continues to organize exhibitions and loan major artworks to other museums throughout the U.S. In response to COVID-19 we closed our facility, and are currently working on refurbishing the Museum Gift Shop, but you may order our Publications online at https://dahesh-museum-of-art.myshopify.com/collections/publications

Please note: There are no art exhibitions on view at this location

11/30/2021

Happy birthday to William-Adolphe Bouguereau, born this day in 1825!
Among Bouguereau’s most popular images with American collectors are his tender pictures of young peasant girls or mothers and children, the subject of our spotlight essay, “Bouguereau’s “Amiable” Pictures Cross the Atlantic:” https://www.daheshmuseum.org/bouguereaus-amiable-pictures-cross-the-atlantic/ #.YX0fTC0RodU

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, “By the Sea,” 1903

11/25/2021

All of us at the Dahesh wish you Happy Thanksgiving! We’re so thankful for your support over the past year!

Eloise Harriet Stannard, “The Four Seasons: Autumn” (1872)

11/17/2021

Happening today!

11/15/2021

Happy National Philanthropy Day! Show your support for the arts today by calling the Dahesh at 212-759-0606 to make a donation.

Frederic, Lord Leighton, Study for “Captive Andromache,” ca. 1888

11/10/2021

Happy birthday to Frederick Arthur Bridgman, born this day in 1847!

Bridgman, a celebrated late 19th-century American painter, chose to live in France and devote himself to Orientalist subjects — especially North African scenes of daily life.

Frederick Arthur Bridgman, “An Oriental Beauty”

11/05/2021

Please join us on Wednesday, November 17th, at 7PM ET for Art of the Americas: Global Perspectives, the November Virtual Salon co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. This online event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at https://tinyurl.com/americas19.

11/01/2021

Happy birthday to Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, born this day in 1827!

Best known for his ethnographic sculptures, Cordier aimed to represent the beauty of the various human races. This goal is realized in many of his busts, including “A Sudanese in Algerian Costume” (1857, Dahesh Museum of Art), and “Woman from the French Colonies” (1861, Metropolitan Museum of Art).

10/27/2021

Halloween is a couple of days away! How about some art inspired costumes from ancient times!

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh’s Granaries, 1874; Jean-Léon Gérôme, Study for “Rachel,” 1859; and Briton Riviere, R. A., “Aphrodite,” 1902

10/24/2021

Happy Birthday to Eugène Fromentin born in La Rochelle, France. He was especially known for his paintings and writings of Algeria, which he visited three times from 1846 to 1853.

“Eugène Fromentin, "Studies of Arab Children”

10/13/2021

Happy Birthday to Everiste Luminais!

Luminais began his career as a genre painter of contemporary hunting and peasant scenes set in his native Brittany and later added a historical dimension to these works, raising them to the level of history painting, which the French Academy esteemed the highest category of subject matter.

Everiste Luminais, “Merovingians Attacking a Wild Dog,” ca. 1875–85

10/11/2021

Please join us on Wednesday, October 20th, at 7PM EDT for our October Virtual Salon on The Art Market in the Nineteenth Century. This series of online events is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art.
For more information and registration: http://www.daheshmuseum.org/virtual-salon-the-art-market-in-the-nineteenth-century/ #.YV9HHC0RpbU

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145 6th Avenue
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Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm

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+12127590606

Website

http://www.daheshmuseum.org/

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Chartered in 1987, the Dahesh Museum of Art is the only institution in the United States devoted to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting works by Europe's academically-trained artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Museum's core collection originated with Dr. Dahesh (tr. "Inspiring Wonder"), the pen name of the late Salim Moussa Achi (1909–1984), an influential Lebanese writer, philosopher, and connoisseur, in whose honor the Museum is named. The Dahesh Museum of Art continues to organize exhibitions and loan major artworks to other museums throughout the U.S. and abroad. The Museum will be moving soon to its newly acquired home once its renovation has been completed. For now, the Dahesh Museum of Art Gift Shop functions as a brick and mortar site for public programs and information about Museum activities. It is also one of the finest museum gift shops in New York City. Please note: There are no art exhibitions on view at this location

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