Μ˙ the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The MuseumThe Houston Arts, of Fine Report 2005–2006 Annual ˙ µ µ˙ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Annual Report 2005–2006 deeply grateful to everyone deeply grateful to everyone he Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2005–2006. who contributed to the success of is T Thank You Thank Cover: Jean-Léon Gérôme Mary Cassatt The Expiring Eagle of Waterloo, c. 1902 Under the Horse-Chestnut Tree, 1896–97 Gilt bronze mounted on worked granite Drypoint and aquatint in colors Museum purchase with funds provided by Gift of The Brown Foundation, Inc. “One Great Night in November, 2005” 2005.974 2005.1066 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is dedicated to excellence in collecting, exhibiting, preserving, conserving, and interpreting art for all people. Leon Polk Smith Open Composition, 1946 Oil on canvas Bequest of Edward B. Mayo 2006.146 2 µ˙ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Annual Report for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006 Juan Gris The White Tablecloth (La Nappe blanche), 1912–16 Oil on panel Museum purchase with funds provided by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund 2006.389 3 Attendance July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006 Total Visits 4,294,315 Museum of Art 1,117,477 The Caroline Wiess Law Building provides an ideal space to exhibit the museum’s collection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artworks, as well as installations of Oceanic art, Asian art, Indonesian gold artifacts, and Pre-Columbian and sub-Saharan African artworks. Of special interest is the Glassell Collection of African Gold, the greatest assemblage of gold objects in the world.
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