Dayton Art Institute Explained

Dayton Art Institute
Location:	Forest and Riverview Aves., Dayton, Ohio
Coordinates:	39.7658°N -84.2011°W
Built:	1930
Architect:	Edward B. Green
Architecture:	Renaissance, Italian Renaissance Revival
Added:	November 19, 1974
Refnum:	74001579

The Dayton Art Institute (DAI) is a museum of fine arts in Dayton, Ohio, United States. The Dayton Art Institute has been rated one of the top 10 best art museums in the United States for children.^[1] The museum also ranks in the top 3% of all art museums in North America in 3 of 4 factors.^[2] In 2007, the art institute saw 303,834 visitors.^[3]

History

Founded in a downtown mansion in 1919 as the Dayton Museum of Fine Arts, the museum moved to a newly designed Edward B. Green building in 1930. The DAI was modeled after the Casino in the gardens of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the front hillside stairway after the Italian Renaissance garden stairs at the Villa d'Este, near Rome, and Italy. The building was originally constructed with imported roof tiles from Italy, but after they began to crumble from the harsher Ohio winters they were replaced by Ludowici tiles in 1979.^[4] It is also visible from and easily accessible from I-75, which passes through the center of Dayton.^[5]

The museum was later renamed the Dayton Art Institute as an indication of the growing importance of its school in addition to the museum. The nearly 60000square feet building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Museum information

The museum's collection contains more than 20,000 objects spanning 5,000 years. In September, 2005, the Museum became one of eleven galleries in the US to host The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt, the largest collection of ancient artifacts ever to travel outside Egypt.

The art museum is an Italian Renaissance–style building, which sits atop a hill overlooking downtown Dayton. The institute's highlights are the museum's Asian, 17th-century Baroque, 18th- and 19th-century American, and contemporary art collections. In addition to its collections, the museum frequently features other exhibitions.^[6]

Notable works

Some of the most notable works held by the institute are:^{[7] [8]}

• The Song of the Nightingale by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
• Purple Leaves^[9] by Georgia O'Keeffe
• Cantata by Norman Lewis
• Untitled^[10] by Joan Mitchell
• Sea Change^[11] by Helen Frankenthaler
• Untitled^[12] by Louise Nevelson
• Louise Nevelson^[13] by Alison Van Pelt
• Lost and Found^[14] by Alison Saar
• Embroidery from Uzbekistan^[15] by Janet Fish
• Sawdy^[16] by Edward Kienholz
• Study Heads of an Old Man by Peter Paul Rubens
• High Noon by Edward Hopper
• Aurora Red Ikebana with Bright Yellow Stems by Dale Chihuly
• After the Bath by Edgar Degas
• Stacks in Celebration by Charles Sheeler
• Scene in Yosemite Valley by Albert Bierstadt
• Allegory of the Four Seasons by Bartolomeo Manfredi
• Water Lilies by Claude Monet
• American Indian Series (Russell Means) by Andy Warhol
• Homage to Painting by Roy Lichtenstein
• Shimmering Madness by Sandy Skoglund^[17]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Dayton, Ohio

Notes and References

1. Web site: Best Art Museum for Kids. 2009-04-01.
2. Web site: Top art museum. 2009-07-29. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090201003131/http://getmidwest.com/regionOverview/arts.cfm?sectionID=ro&subNavID=7. February 1, 2009.
3. Web site: Attendance fact sheet. 2010-04-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20120313052024/http://www.downtowndayton.org/pdfs/fs-attendance.pdf. 2012-03-13. dead.
4. News: Krebs . Betty Dietz . After years of leaks, Art Institute is fit to be tiled . Dayton Daily News . 26 August 1979.
5. Web site: Dayton art museum history . https://archive.today/20031009000943/http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/info/history.html . dead . 2003-10-09 . 2009-05-26 .
6. Web site: Dayton art museum information. 2009-05-26.
7. Web site: Notable Works . https://archive.today/20110513065507/http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/exhibits/90_Treasures_Adopt.html . dead . 2011-05-13 . 2009-06-24 .
8. Web site: Notable Works 2 . 2009-06-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091015114515/http://tours.daytonartinstitute.org/accessart/guided.cfm?TN=mh . 2009-10-15 .
9. Web site: Purple Leaves Dayton Art Institute. www.daytonartinstitute.org. 2017-10-07.
10. Web site: Untitled Dayton Art Institute. www.daytonartinstitute.org. 2017-10-07. February 25, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170225095023/http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/art/collection-highlights/american/mitchell-untitled. dead.
11. Web site: Sea Change Dayton Art Institute. www.daytonartinstitute.org. 2017-10-07. March 1, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170301012810/http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/art/collection-highlights/american/helen-frankenthaler. dead.
12. Web site: Untitled Dayton Art Institute. www.daytonartinstitute.org. 2017-10-07.
13. Web site: Alison Van Pelt: The Women Dayton Art Institute. www.daytonartinstitute.org. 2017-10-07. February 25, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170225125558/http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/art/exhibitions/alison-van-pelt-women. dead.
14. Web site: Lost and Found Dayton Art Institute. www.daytonartinstitute.org. 2017-10-07. February 27, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170227020329/http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/art/collection-highlights/american/alison-saar. dead.
15. Web site: Embroidery From Uzbekistan Dayton Art Institute. www.daytonartinstitute.org. 2017-10-07. February 27, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170227023335/http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/art/collection-highlights/american/janet-fish. dead.
16. Web site: Sawdy Dayton Art Institute. www.daytonartinstitute.org. 2017-10-07. February 27, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170227055212/http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/node/1348. dead.
17. Web site: Shimmering Madness Dayton Art Institute. www.daytonartinstitute.org. 2020-04-09. February 27, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170227190209/http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/art/collection-highlights/american/shimmering-madness. dead.