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1. PAMTHR_170714_001.JPG: The Thorne Miniature Rooms People have long been fascinated by the detail and precision with which very small artworks can be made. The Thorne Miniature Rooms are examples of this fascination for the world in miniature. At an exacting scale of one inch to the foot, several of the rooms replicate actual rooms found in the United States and Europe, while the remainder faithfully depict the architecture and interior design of their periods and countries. These rooms were conceived, designed and in large part created by Narcissa Niblack Thorne (1882-1966). An Indiana native, Thorne began to collect miniature furniture and household accessories during her travels to England and the Far East shortly after the turn of the 20th century. Beginning in 1930, Thorne devised the ingenious scheme of having these interiors made to hold her growing collection of miniature objects. Many of the rooms are exact replicas of existing houses in the United States and Europe. The remaining rooms faithfully depict the architecture and interior design of their periods and countries. Made at a scale of 1:12 (one inch in the room equals one foot in real life), some of the rooms even contain period-style rugs Thorne had woven specifically for each space. Mrs. Thorne and the craftsmen she worked with completed nearly 100 rooms. Her hope was that perfectly proportioned rooms in miniature could substitute for costly and space-consuming full-scale period rooms that museums across the country were beginning to acquire. The original thirty Thorne Miniature Rooms were displayed at the 1933 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition and they gained national attention when featured in a 1940 LIFE magazine article. Twenty of the original thirty rooms were given to a fledgling Phoenix Art Museum in 1962, and have been on view here ever since. The rest are in the Art Institute of Chicago (68), the Knoxville Museum of Art (9), The Indianapolis Childrens Museum (1), and the Kaye Miniature Museum in Los Angeles (1).
2. PAMTHR_170714_006.JPG: Art Deco Penthouse Dining Room, c 1925
3. PAMTHR_170714_010.JPG: Art Deco Hall, c 1925
4. PAMTHR_170714_014.JPG: Art Deco Library, c 1925
5. PAMTHR_170714_019.JPG: American Federal Dining Room, 1790-1820
6. PAMTHR_170714_031.JPG: American Colonial Bedroom, 1740-1750
7. PAMTHR_170714_041.JPG: American Federal Dining ROom, c 1800
8. PAMTHR_170714_045.JPG: French Louis XVI Bedroom, 1774-1793
9. PAMTHR_170714_053.JPG: French Louis XVI Dining Room, 1774-1793
10. PAMTHR_170714_061.JPG: French Louis XVI Drawing Room, 1774-1793
11. PAMTHR_170714_072.JPG: French Louis XV Salon, 1715-1754
12. PAMTHR_170714_079.JPG: Eighteenth-Century French Music Room
13. PAMTHR_170714_083.JPG: Eighteenth-Century French Drawing Room
14. PAMTHR_170714_087.JPG: French Directoire Room, 1795-1799
15. PAMTHR_170714_093.JPG: Breton Kitchen, c 1750
16. PAMTHR_170714_100.JPG: English Georgian Library, 1714-1820
17. PAMTHR_170714_105.JPG: English Adam Dining Room, 1762-1794
18. PAMTHR_170714_116.JPG: English Jacobean Hall, 1603-1649
19. PAMTHR_170714_122.JPG: English Lodge Kitchen, c 1840-1850
20. PAMTHR_170714_128.JPG: Italian Dining Room, c 1500
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Wikipedia Description: Phoenix Art Museum
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The Phoenix Art Museum is the Southwest United States' largest art museum for visual art. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the museum is 285,000-square-foot (26,500 m2). It displays international exhibitions alongside its comprehensive collection of more than 18,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design. A community center since 1959, it hosts year-round programs of festivals, live performances, independent art films and educational programs. It also features PhxArtKids, an interactive space for children; photography exhibitions through the museum’s partnership with the Center for Creative Photography; the landscaped Sculpture Garden; dining and shopping.

It has been designated a Phoenix Point of Pride.

History

Opened in 1959, the Phoenix Art Museum is located on the Central Avenue Corridor.

Shortly after Arizona became the 48th state in 1912, the Phoenix Women’s Club was formed and worked with the Arizona State Fair Committee to develop a fine arts program. In 1915, the club purchased Carl Oscar Borg's painting Egyptian Evening for US$125 and presented it to the city of Phoenix to begin a community art collection. In 1925, the State Fair Committee expanded its community responsibilities and formed the Phoenix Fine Arts Association.

The next major advance in the local art community came during 1936, when the Phoenix Art Center was created under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Its director was the painter Philip C. Curtis. Its success led to the creation in 1940 of the Civic Center Association, which set about raising funds and planning a building on a 6.5-acre plot donated by the heirs of Adolphus Clay Bartlett. These heirs included Maie Bartlett Heard, who with her husband Dwight B. Heard founded the Heard Museum.

In the early 1950s, Alden Dow, an architect, was retained by the Board of Trustees to design a complex that would house the Phoenix Public Library, the Phoenix Little Theater (now the Phoenix Theatre) and the new Phoenix Art Museum. The structural engineering firm chosen for this project was Severud Associates. To coordinate this endeavor, the Phoenix Fine Arts Association named the Museum’s first Board of Trustees in 1952 and its first director in 1957.

The museum was officially dedicated on November 21, 1959. Two years later, the board announced plans for an expansion, and in 1965 the museum was enlarged from 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2) to 72,000 square feet (6,700 m2). Additional expansions, led by design architects Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects of New York, occurred in 1996. The Museum more than doubled its size with new exhibition galleries, a 300-seat public theater, a research library, studio classroom facilities, the PhxArtKids Gallery, and a caf�. Most recently, in 2006, the museum saw the opening of the Ellen and Howard C. Katz Wing for Modern Art, the Heather and Michael Greenbaum Museum Lobby, an expanded museum store and the 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) Bennett and Jacquie Dorrance Sculpture Garden. The museum's growth has been funded, in part, by successful City of Phoenix Bond Elections and a voter-approved bond.

In the last 50 years, the Museum has hosted more than 400 exhibitions from all over the world, grown the collection to more than 18,000 works of art, and been visited by millions, including over one million school children.
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