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28-797: The center was founded as the Northwest Film Study Center in 1971, and incorporated into the Portland Art Museum in 1978. The center was located in Portland's historic Guild Theatre from 1998 to 2006. Sponsors of the center include the National Endowment for the Arts , Oregon Arts Commission , Oregon Cultural Trust , Washington State Arts Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council , The Ted R. Gamble Film Endowment, The Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust, The Paul G. Allen Foundation for

56-615: A Vincent van Gogh exhibition in 1959, the proceeds from which were used to purchase a 1915 Water Lilies (catalog #1795) by Claude Monet . The 1950s also witnessed the creation of the museum's Docent Council in 1955, which created a core group of volunteers who continue to serve the museum to this day. In the 1960s, the museum underwent another major renovation to build the Hoffman Memorial Wing, named for L. Hawley Hoffman (1884-1959; son of Portland-based artist and arts patron Julia Christiansen Hoffman ), who served as president of

84-431: A $ 45 million capital campaign. In 2001, PAM purchased the private collection of New York art critic Clement Greenberg consisting of 159 works by artists such as Kenneth Noland , Jules Olitski , and Anthony Caro . In 2007, the museum acquired Vincent van Gogh 's 1884 painting The Ox-Cart by donation. In December 2013, Francis Bacon 's Three Studies of Lucian Freud went on display for three months after it

112-571: A new vault for the collections, and an auditorium. Over the course of the next several decades, the collections and programs of the Portland Art Museum continued to grow and evolve. In 1978, Vivian and Gordon Gilkey began their association with the museum, bringing with them an extraordinary collection of thousands of works on paper that would eventually lead to the opening of the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts in 1993. Also in 1978,

140-411: A new wing expansion project. The Hirsch Wing, also designed by Belluschi, was funded largely through the bequest of Ella Hirsch in honor of her parents, Solomon and Josephine Hirsch. The new wing opened on September 15, 1939, and doubled the museum's gallery space. In 1942, the Portland Art Museum celebrated a subdued 50th Anniversary due to World War II. But the following year in 1943, staff completed

168-536: Is also a component of Portland Art Museum. The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums , with accreditation through 2024. Incorporated as the Portland Art Association , in 1892, seven business and cultural leaders in the city formed an association towards the development of an art museum for the city of Portland, then approaching 50,000 residents. Henry Corbett donated $ 10,000 to

196-477: Is an art museum in downtown Portland, Oregon , United States. The Portland Art Museum has 240,000 square feet (22,000 m ), with more than 112,000 square feet (10,400 m ) of gallery space. The museum’s permanent collection has over 42,000 works of art. PAM features a center for Native American art, a center for Northwest art, a center for modern and contemporary art, permanent exhibitions of Asian art, and an outdoor public sculpture garden. The Northwest Film Center

224-532: The Northwest Film Center was incorporated into the museum, offering a wide range of film festivals, classes, and outreach programs focused on the moving image arts. The Portland Art Museum purchased the neighboring Masonic Temple in 1992. A capital campaign to finance a refurbishment of the Main Building began in 1994. The project improved the galleries, reinstalled the permanent collection, and equipped

252-580: The 1905 Exposition. Curator Henrietta H. Failing (the niece of founder Henry Failing ) organized the exhibition with New England artist Frank DuMond . In 1908, the museum acquired its first original piece of art, Afternoon Sky, Harney Desert by American impressionist painter Childe Hassam , who frequented Malheur and Harney counties in Eastern Oregon with his friend, C.E.S. Wood . Anna Belle Crocker succeeded Henrietta Failing as curator in 1909, where she remained until her retirement in 1936. Crocker

280-570: The 33,000 volume Crumpacker Family Library, meeting spaces, ballrooms, and administrative offices. A major renovation of the Hoffman Wing was completed in 2000 and added more than 50,000 square feet (5,000 m ) of new gallery space to the museum which included the Grand Ronde Center for Native American Art and the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Northwest Art. The renovation was funded by

308-502: The Arts , Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , and the Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission. In March 2022, the center was renamed the "PAM CUT–Center for an Untold Tomorrow". In September 2019, Amy Dotson became the director of Portland's Northwest Film Center. Dotson would be responsible for the Film Center's overall vision, including strategic development, marketing, and guidance of

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336-1055: The Northwest Filmmakers' Festival, Reel Music Film Festival, Portland Jewish Film Festival and the Young People's Film Festival. None of these events have been held since 2020 (except the Portland International Film Festival, which was virtual in 2021). Past judges of the Northwest Filmmakers' Festival (previously known as the Northwest Film and Video Festival) have included Gus Van Sant , Matt Groening , Todd Haynes , Christine Vachon , Bill Plympton , Dan Ireland , Karen Cooper of Filmforum, B. Ruby Rich , Amy Taubin , J. Hoberman , and John Cooper, Sundance Film Festival and Outfest programmer. 45°31′04″N 122°40′59″W  /  45.5178°N 122.6830°W  / 45.5178; -122.6830 Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum (PAM)

364-640: The association that funded the museum's first collection (the Corbett Collection), which consisted of one hundred plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures. The individual pieces of the collection were selected by Winslow B. Ayer and his wife during a trip to Europe. Curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts advised the Ayers prior to the trip on what pieces to select. The collection

392-491: The building with a climate control system. After the refurbishment was completed, PAM hosted Imperial Tombs of China , which brought 430,000 visitors to the museum. PAM renovated the former Masonic temple, renamed it the Mark Building , and opened it to the public in 1995. The renovated building holds the six-floor, 28,000-square-foot (2,600 m ) Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art. The Mark Building also houses

420-572: The controversial Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 by Marcel Duchamp . The museum continued to grow during the years following World War I. In the 1920s, the museum hosted two memorable exhibitions organized by Sally Lewis, the daughter of a prominent Portland family. Lewis had befriended many well-known artists on trips to New York and Europe. In 1923, Lewis organized an exhibition at the museum that included 44 paintings by Picasso , Matisse, André Derain and American modernists, such as Maurice Prendergast , Charles Burchfield , and Max Weber . She

448-481: The course of the next two decades. Recent acquisitions include photographs, a few negatives, and color pencil sketches by the Los Angeles photographer Ray McSavaney . The Portland Art Museum has a collection consisting of approximately 40,000 objects. In 2006, Brian Ferriso was appointed the museum's director. The museum has a collection of over 40,000 objects and works of art. Among them: The Oregon Biennial

476-514: The curriculum. She would also work with the curatorial teams of the Museum, incorporating her vast film and new media knowledge, as well as using her financial, commercial and foreign partnerships to promote the development of the Film Center as a world-class film and digital media production hub. In the past, events at the Northwest Film Center included the Portland International Film Festival,

504-711: The east side of the Willamette River and in parts of Washington County , Stark Street follows the Willamette Baseline . In late 2017, activists proposed renaming Southwest Stark Street for gay rights activist Harvey Milk , noting a history of racism and support of slavery by Stark. In June 2018, the city council approved renaming the 13-block stretch of Stark from Southwest 11th Street and Southwest Naito Parkway within Downtown Portland as Southwest Harvey Milk Street. The name change took effect immediately upon

532-665: The museum in 1892, contains over 40,000 catalogued items. Stark Street Stark Street is an east-west-running street in Portland, Oregon , in the United States. The street is named after Benjamin Stark , and is divided as Southeast Stark Street and Southwest Stark Street by the Willamette River . A stretch of Stark Street has been designated Southwest Harvey Milk Street to commemorate LGBTQ rights activist Harvey Milk . On

560-573: The museum twice. Funded by the museum's first capital campaign, the new wing began construction in November 1968 and was finished in September 1970. Pietro Belluschi served as the architect again, and the project allowed him to realize a complete vision for the museum that he had conceived nearly 40 years earlier. The expansion created classroom and studio space for the Museum Art School, a sculpture mall,

588-476: The museum's first full inventory, which counted a permanent collection of 3,300 objects and 750 works on long-term loan. The next decade was distinguished by a series of record-setting exhibitions. In 1956, nearly 55,000 visitors came to the museum during the six-week run of an exhibition featuring paintings from the collection of Walter Chrysler . The exhibition was organized by the Portland Art Museum and toured nine other cities. More than 80,000 people visited for

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616-498: The original portion of today's larger main building is referred to as the Ayer Wing. Belluschi's design was modernist , with an unornamented exterior that reflected Belluschi's belief that the design of the building should emphasize the artwork to be exhibited inside of it rather than emphasize the structure itself. In April 1938, the museum was registered as a tax exempt nonprofit organization. That same year, construction began on

644-437: The public on November 18, 1932, at the corner of SW Park Avenue and Jefferson Street. The building was designed by architect Pietro Belluschi . It is situated along downtown Portland's South Park Blocks and remains a landmark in the city's Cultural District. It was constructed with a lead gift of $ 100,000 from Winslow B. Ayer, the same patron who selected the museum's collection of plaster casts 40 years earlier. For this reason,

672-581: Was a biennial art exhibition held every two years at PAM. In 2007, it was replaced by the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards or CNAA, which will be held every two years and covers artists in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana selected from a shortlist of artists. One artist from the CNAA show will be awarded the $ 10,000 Arlene Schnitzer Prize. The Crumpacker Family Library, founded with

700-407: Was also one of 22 patrons who purchased Derain's Tree for the museum's permanent collection. The success of her first exhibition led to her second, more daring endeavor a year later that juxtaposed paintings, drawings, and sculptures from Europe with African masks. Among the sculptures was Brâncuși's A Muse , which Lewis owned and donated to the museum in 1959. The museum's final location opened to

728-580: Was an important early figure on the association and was the first head of the Museum Art School,( opened in 1909 and now the Pacific Northwest College of Art ). In late 1913, the museum hosted one of its most important early exhibitions. The exhibition featured artwork that had been on display earlier that year at the famous 1913 New York Armory Show , which introduced American audiences to modern art . The exhibition included works by Cézanne , Van Gogh , Gauguin , Matisse , Manet , Renoir , and

756-644: Was originally displayed at the Multnomah County Library located at Southwest Seventh and Stark streets in downtown Portland. By the time of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition held in Portland in 1905, the Portland Art Association had outgrown its location in the public library and had moved into its own building at SW 5th and Taylor. The first exhibition in the new building featured watercolors and paintings that had come to Portland as part of

784-406: Was sold at auction. In 2016, the Portland Art Museum announced that it would undertake a glass-walled expansion to unite its two existing free-standing buildings. The Rothko Pavilion addition, was the result of a partnership with Mark Rothko ’s children, Christopher Rothko and Kate Rothko Prizel, and an agreement they will provide loans of major Rothko paintings from their private collection over

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