Newark Museum & Its Contribution to The Community, August 2019
Newark Museum
| Looking northwest at en:Newark Museum from western corner of Washington Park on a sunny midday. Jim.henderson – Own work | |
| Wikimedia | © OpenStreetMap | |
| Established | 1909 |
| Location |
49 Washington St Newark, NJ, USA |
| Director | Linda C. Harrison[1] |
| Public transit access | Washington Park Station (Newark Light Rail) |
| Website | newarkmuseum.org |
| James Street Commons Historic District | |
| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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U.S. Historic district Contributing property | |
| New Jersey Register of Historic Places | |
| Newark Museum is located in Essex County, New Jersey | |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | January 9, 1978 |
| Designated NJRHP | February 10, 1977 |
The Newark Museum, in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, is the state’s largest museum. It holds major collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world.
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Coffin lid of Henet-Mer Artwork Created: 1076 BC–946 BC
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Feral Benga, Senegalese Dancer Artwork Artist: Richmond Barthé Created: 1935
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Limestone statue of a votary Artwork Created: 451 BC–426 BC
Its extensive collections of American art include works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Joseph Stella, Tony Smith and Frank Stella.
MEZZANINE Artist: Norman Rockwell
Artist: Norman Rockwell
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The Sheridan Theatre Artwork Artist: Edward Hopper Created: 1937
Periods: Modern art, American Realism
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Twilight, “Short Arbiter ‘Twixt Day and Night” (Sunset)
Artwork Artist: Frederic Edwin Church Created: 1850
Periods: Hudson River School, Luminism
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Portrait of Willie Gee
Artwork Artist: Robert Henri Created: 1904
Periods: Modern art, Realism, Ashcan School, American Realism
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The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The White Way II
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Created: 1920–1922
Periods: Modern art, Futurism, American modernism
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Slave Rape Story Quilt
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Created: 1985
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Mrs. Charles Thursby Artwork Artist: John Singer Sargent
Location: Private collection Created: 1872–1898 Genre: Portrait
Periods: Impressionism, Realism, American Impressionism
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The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge)
Artwork Artist: Joseph Stella Created: 1920–1922
Periods: Modern art, Futurism, American modernism
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The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The Port (The Harbor, The Battery)
Artwork Artist: Joseph Stella Created: 1920–1922
Periods: Modern art, Futurism, American modernism
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The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The White Way I
Artwork Artist: Joseph Stella Created: 1920–1922
Periods: Modern art, Futurism, American modernism
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The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted
Artwork Artist: Joseph Stella Created: 1920–1922
Periods: Modern art, Futurism, American modernism
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Mountain Landscape with Cows and Sheep
Artwork Artist: Robert S. Duncanson Created: 1866
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Near Andersonville Artwork Artist: Winslow Homer
Created: 1865–1866 Periods: Realism, American Realism
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Party Time: Re-imagine America
Artwork Artist: Yinka Shonibare Created: 2008–2009
Dr. Martine Luther King Artist: Stephen Summerstein
The Newark Museum’s Tibetan galleries are considered among the best in the world. The collection was purchased from Christian missionaries in the early twentieth century. The Tibetan galleries have an in-situ Buddhist altar that the Dalai Lama has consecrated.
Buddha Statue
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Vishnu Mandala Artwork Created: 1700–1899
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Ardhanarishvara Artwork Created: 1755–1790
Asian Art Birds
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Swayambunath Stupa and Patrons Interior Book Cover Painting Probably for an Edition of the Swayambu Purana
Artwork Created: 1600–1799
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Atisha (982-1054) Kadam Order Founder; beginning of Sarma (New) Orders
Artwork Created: 1600–1799
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Krishna and Satyabhama Rescue Princesses from the Demon-King Narakasura Illustrated folio from a dispersed Bhagavat Purana
Artwork Created: 1750–1800
In addition to its extensive art collections, the Newark Museum is dedicated to natural science. It includes the Dreyfuss Planetarium and the Victoria Hall of Science which highlights selections from the museum’s 70,000 specimen Natural Science Collection. The Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden, located behind the museum, houses numerous works of contemporary sculpture and is the setting for community programs, concerts and performances. The garden is also home to a 1784 old stone schoolhouse and the Newark Fire Museum.
The museum was founded in 1909 by librarian and reformer John Cotton Dana. As the charter described it, the purpose was “to establish in the City of Newark, New Jersey, a museum for the reception and exhibition of articles of art, science, history and technology, and for the encouragement of the study of the arts and sciences.” The kernel of the museum was a collection of Japanese prints, silks, and porcelains assembled by a Newark harmacist.[4]
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Ruan Xiaoqi, the Living King of Hell (Katsuenra Genshôshichi) from the series One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Suikoden All Told (Tsûzoku Suikoden gôketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori)
Artwork Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi Created: 1802–1830
Artist: Shen Zhen Lin
Originally located on the fourth floor of the Newark Public Library, the museum moved into its own purpose-built structure in the 1920s on Washington Park after a gift by Louis Bamberger. It was designed by Jarvis Hunt, who also designed Bamberger’s flagship Newark store.[5][6] Since then, the museum has expanded several times, to the south into the red brick former YMCA and to the north into the 1885 Ballantine House, by means of a four-year, $23 million renovation[7]. In 1990, the museum expanded to the west into an existing acquired building. At that time much of the museum, including the new addition, was redesigned by Michael Graves.
The museum had a mini-zoo with small animals for some twenty years, until August 2010.[8]
For the security of climate-sensitive artwork, the museum closed its front entrance to the public in 1997 to minimize the effects of temperature and humidity changes. However, in February 2018, after extensive renovation and the construction of a ramp for disabled access, the front doors were reopened.[9]
The museum is open from 12 to 5 pm from Wednesdays to Sundays and is free for Newark residents[10].
The Newark Black Film Festival is held every summer at the museum.
The Ballantine House
The Ballantine house is a preserved and restored house from the Victorian Era, designed by architect George Edward Harney. It was home to John Holme Ballantine, his wife, Jeannette, and their children, John, Robert, Alice, and Percy. Mr. Ballantine owned and ran a brewery in the Ironbound section of Newark. The house originally had twenty-seven rooms and three floors. In 1937, the Newark Museum bought the house and has since restored it to serve as galleries for the extensive decorative arts collections.
MakerSPACE at Newark Museum
The MakerSPACE at the Newark Museum is “an interactive area where visitors of all ages play, tinker and create as they make connections between the materials, processes and concepts of artwork and natural science objects in the Museum’s collections and their own creativity.” [11] John Cotton Dana, the founder of the museum, believed that “the worth of a museum is in its use.” [12] The museum has carried on this legacy of incorporation of the immediate community by opening a MakerSPACE. The museum even displays some of the artwork that is made in the space. The space includes many advanced tools, such as a laser cutter/engraver, 3D printers, a vinyl cutter, pottery wheels, sewing machines, relief and silk screen printing equipment, and various hand tools like saws, hammers, and screwdrivers. The MakerSPACE is open every Saturday 1-4PM for drop-in activities.
Reading session for children in the MakerSpace room
Testing, Science lesson for children in the MakerSpace room
Teacher, Ms. Garrido, Kai and Dr. Martine Luther King’s Portrait
Kai enjoyed playing with other children.
Kai was making his master artwork in “MakerSpace”
On Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Kai was very interested in playing with toy trains, at the “MakerSpace” room.
At the “MakerSpace” room. Ms. Garrido introduced Kai to a group of people who were practicing a dance routine.
For more information please visit the following the links:
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