Utah Museum of Fine Arts

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is a state and university art museum located in downtown Salt Lake City on the University of Utah campus. Housed in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building near Rice-Eccles Stadium, the museum holds a permanent collection of nearly 20,000 art objects. Works of art are displayed on a rotating basis. History The creation of a formal art gallery on the top floor of the University of Utah's Park Building in the early 1900s marks the beginning of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. In the beginning, paintings by local artists filled this three-room gallery. Through the next six decades, the art department at the University of Utah received major art gifts and specific requests from donors to remodel the gallery into a museum. After the renovation of the gallery was finished, the university's president, A. Ray Olpin , established it as the Utah Museum of. Collections As of 2017, the UMFA held a collection of over 22,000 art objects. Works of the European tradition from the 14th to the 19th centuries include such artists as Filippo Lippi , Pieter Brueghel the Younger , Jan Brueghel the Younger , Anthony van Dyck , Giovanni Paolo Panini , Hyacinthe Rigaud , Jean-Honoré Fragonard , Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun , Thomas Gainsborough , Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , and Auguste Rodin . Represented American artists include Benjamin West , Gilbert Stuart , Thomas Cole , Albert Bierstadt , Edmonia Lewis , and John Singer Sargent.