Blanton Museum of Art
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe. The Blanton's permanent collection consists of more than 21,000 works, with significant holdings of modern and contemporary art, Latin American art, Old Master paintings, and prints and drawings from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
Former name
University Art Museum; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
1963
Old Master paintings, prints, drawings, Minimalism, Post-minimalism, Conceptual art, Latin American art, Western American Art, Antiquities
21,000 objects
200,000 (2019)
Simone Wicha (from 2011)
![Frederic Remington, The Charge, 1906. At 49 by 137 inches, this was the artist's largest work.[44]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Frederic_Sackrider_Remington--The_Charge--1906--Blanton.tif/lossy-page1-867px-Frederic_Sackrider_Remington--The_Charge--1906--Blanton.tif.jpg)
