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This installation presents portraits of women from the Menil’s collection.
Alongside a plaster sculpture of a contemplative and seated figure by Pop artist George Segal is a series of silkscreened paintings by Andy Warhol of Jermayne MacAgy, commissioned in the 1960s by museum founders, John and Dominique de Menil. A close and influential friend of the couple, the late Houston-based...
This installation presents portraits of women from the Menil’s collection.
Alongside a plaster sculpture of a contemplative and seated figure by Pop artist George Segal is a series of silkscreened paintings by Andy Warhol of Jermayne MacAgy, commissioned in the 1960s by museum founders, John and Dominique de Menil. A close and influential friend of the couple, the late Houston-based curator and art historian was one of the very first subjects of the artist’s now legendary group of square-format portraits.
The display also highlights a new acquisition by renowned American painter Alice Neel (1900–1984); the 1977 portrait of the New York-based artist and activist Faith Ringgold (1930–2024).
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Menil Collection Visit
- The Menil Collection houses approximately 17,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and rare books
- Among the highlights of the museum are its Surrealist holdings, widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost collections of its kind
- Masterpieces from antiquity, the Byzantine and medieval worlds, the tribal cultures of Africa, Oceania, the American Pacific Northwest, and the twentieth century are particularly well represented
What's on
Portraits of Women from the Collection (Until 9 November 2024)
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly (Starts on 11 October 2024)
Fragments of Memory (Until 26 January 2025)
Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms (Until 26 January 2025)
Other exhibitions at The Menil Collection
The Menil Collection
The Menil Collection in Neartown Houston, Texas is a museum showcasing the private collection of John and Dominique de Menil. Inside you'll find some 17,000 paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, rare books, and drawings.
The collection features an impressive list of surrealist and contemporary masterpieces with works by some of the 20th century's biggest names like Picasso, René Magritte, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. There's also pieces from antiquity and the medieval era, the tribal cultures of Africa, Oceania, and the American Pacific Northwest.