House Art Gallery Of Ontario
In 1984 the DMA moved to its current location, the 370,000-square-foot Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed building, as the first arts group within the Dallas Arts District. The Museum’s world collection contains over 24,000 artworks spanning 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum’s collections are encyclopedic in nature, with pieces ranging in date from 5000 BC to 2012 AD. The museum’s strength is in Spanish works by Murillo, Zurbarán, Cotán, Ribera and El Greco.
The assortment began when 174 paintings had been purchased from European sellers in 1871. Almost two-thirds of these paintings have been deaccessioned, however quality work by Jordaens, Van…