Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection offers a look at the exemplary Dallas-based collection of American art that was built over nearly 60 years by Thomas and Eleanor May and their children Christopher, Sterling, Meredith, and Laura. Twenty-four works, whose dates span approximately a century, touch historical and aesthetic highpoints in American art and are united by a visual sense of harmony, tranquility, and beauty. The exhibition features oil paintings, watercolors, and sculpture by influential artists, including Cecilia Beaux, William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and John Singer Sargent.
Focus Installation
Admission is FREE.
Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by the generosity of DMA Members and donors, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.
Images: Winslow Homer, The Sand Dune, 1871-1872, oil on canvas, The Collection of Eleanor and C. Thomas May, Jr.; Theodore Robinson, Miss Motes and Her Dog Shep in a Boat, 1893, oil on canvas, The Collection of Eleanor and C. Thomas May, Jr.; Alfred Henry Maurer, Tabletop Still Life, 1913, oil on canvas, The Collection of Eleanor and C. Thomas May, Jr.; John Singer Sargent, Sylvia Harrison, 1914, oil on canvas, The Collection of Eleanor and C. Thomas May, Jr.; Gertrude Fiske, Contemplation, before 1916, oil on canvas, The Collection of Eleanor and C. Thomas May, Jr.