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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. TIMKEN_190716_008.JPG: The Queen Disturbing the Booty Central design by Antoine Caron, ca 1620
2. TIMKEN_190716_013.JPG: The Petitions Central design by Antoine Caron, ca 1620
3. TIMKEN_190716_047.JPG: Mrs. Thomas Gage, 1771 John Singleton Copley
4. TIMKEN_190716_058.JPG: Cutlet and Vegetables Raphaelle Peale
5. TIMKEN_190716_063.JPG: An American Ship in Distress Thomas Birch
6. TIMKEN_190716_073.JPG: In the Library John F. Peto
7. TIMKEN_190716_078.JPG: The Magnolia Blossom Martin Johnson Heade
8. TIMKEN_190716_088.JPG: View of Volterra Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
9. TIMKEN_190716_094.JPG: Christ Healing the Blind Philippe de Champaigne
10. TIMKEN_190716_101.JPG: Blindman's Buff Jean-Honore Fragonard
11. TIMKEN_190716_106.JPG: Seaport at Sunset Claude Joseph Vernet
12. TIMKEN_190716_115.JPG: Blindman's Buff Jean-Honore Fragonard
13. TIMKEN_190716_129.JPG: Guy XVII, Comte de Laval Francois Clouet
14. TIMKEN_190716_134.JPG: Lovers in a Park Francois Boucher
15. TIMKEN_190716_149.JPG: Pieter Claesz Still Life, 1627
16. TIMKEN_190716_154.JPG: Jacob van Ruisdael A View of Haarlem and Bleaching Fields, c 1665-70
17. TIMKEN_190716_159.JPG: Pieter Bruegel I Parable of the Sower, 1557
18. TIMKEN_190716_164.JPG: Pieter Claeissins Virgin of Sorrows with Donors, 1564
19. TIMKEN_190716_170.JPG: Master of the Saint Lucy Legend Adoration of the Magi, late 15th Century
20. TIMKEN_190716_176.JPG: Petrus Christus Death of the Virgin, c 1460-65
21. TIMKEN_190716_183.JPG: Gabriel Metsu A Girl Receiving a Letter, c 1658
22. TIMKEN_190716_189.JPG: Frans Hals Portrait of a Man, 1634
23. TIMKEN_190716_193.JPG: Nicolaes Maes Portrait of a Lady, 1677
24. TIMKEN_190716_198.JPG: Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of a Young Man in Armor, c 1620
25. TIMKEN_190716_204.JPG: Anthony van Dyck Mary Villiers, Lady Herbert of Shurland, c 1636
26. TIMKEN_190716_211.JPG: Rembrandt van Rijn Saint Bartholomew, 1657
27. TIMKEN_190716_219.JPG: The Requests of the Citizens Central design by Antoine Caron, ca 1620
28. TIMKEN_190716_256.JPG: Adornment The custom of adorning a holy image with a precious metal cover is as old as icons themselves. Traditionally, such acts expressed the donor's piety as well as his or her wealth and status. During the Imperial period (1721-1917), the demand for covered icons spread to all levels of Russian society. An icon cover's ornamentation, craftsmanship, and materials made it a sensitive gauge of the owner's social status, artistic taste, and financial resources.
29. TIMKEN_190716_275.JPG: Russian Icons at the Timken
30. TIMKEN_190716_294.JPG: The Return of the Prodigal Son Il Guercino
31. TIMKEN_190716_301.JPG: Paolo Callari, called Veronse
32. TIMKEN_190716_313.JPG: The Piazzetta at Venice Luca Carlevarius
33. TIMKEN_190716_321.JPG: Portrait of a Lady in a Green Dress Bartolomeo Veneto
34. TIMKEN_190716_326.JPG: Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth, the infant Saint John, and Saint Catherine Paolo Caliari, called Veronese
35. TIMKEN_190716_333.JPG: Niccolo di Buonaccorso Madonna and Child, 1387
36. TIMKEN_190716_340.JPG: Torment of St. Anthony Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo
37. TIMKEN_190716_345.JPG: Youth Holding an Arrow Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
38. TIMKEN_190716_353.JPG: Roman de Salvo Electric Picnic, 2019
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Wikipedia Description: Timken Museum of Art
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Timken Museum of Art is a fine art museum, established in 1965 and located at 1500 El Prado in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, close to the San Diego Museum of Art. It is the only Balboa Park museum with free admission.

History

Portrait of Margaret Kemble Gage by John Singleton Copley (1738–1815)
The groundwork for the museum was laid in 1951 when Walter Ames helped sisters Amy and Anne Putnam to form the nonprofit Putnam Foundation to own and manage their art collection. The sisters had settled in San Diego in the early 20th century and made donations to the San Diego Museum of Art in its early years. At first the Foundation loaned items from its collection to noteworthy museums across the United States. When the Timken Museum opened in 1965, the Putnam Foundation Collection provided its initial material and Walter Ames became its first director.

The museum building stands on the site of the former Home Economy Building, originally designed for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition and later known as the Pan-Pacific Building, the Cafe of the World, and the American Legion Building. That building was torn down in 1963 and replaced by the Timken Museum, which was designed by the architectural firm of Frank L. Hope and Associates and funded by the Timken family. The museum is a white, modern building in marble and bronze housing a five-room gallery.

Shortly after the museum opened, John Walker, of the National Gallery of Art, praised its collection, some of which had been on loan at his institution until the Timken neared completion:

"It is one of the finest small museums I have ever seen...I congratulate you on the discrimination shown. You have been wise. Some cities have built large museums, and then hoped that innumerable works of art of true excellence would miraculously appear. I am afraid they won't any longer. Money is not the problem. The problem is to find pictures to buy. I can't replace those which have come to San Diego. Paintings like these are virtually unavailable at any price."

Overview

The museum displays European old master paintings, sculptures, and tapestries under natural light. Supplementing the European holdings are collections of American painting and Russian icons.

Acquisitions have expanded the collection from the original 40 to 60 major works, including ones by American (Copley, Johnson, West, Cole, Bierstadt), Italian (Savoldo, Veronese, Guercino), Spanish (Murillo), and French masters (Clouet, Claude, Boucher, Fragonard, David, Corot), as well as works of the Flemish and Dutch schools, including masterpieces by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Frans Hals.

In 2015, in honor of the Museum's 50th anniversary, the Timken acquired a Zurbar�n 3/4 portrait of St. Francis in meditation. The Timken is the only San Diego museum with a Rembrandt in its permanent collection.

The museum's founding benefactors, the Putnam sisters, were related to two Revolutionary War generals, Israel Putnam and Rufus Putnam. Coincidentally, one of the museum's most important acquisitions in recent decades is the John Singleton Copley painting of the woman who may well have triggered the Revolutionary War, Margaret Kemble Gage.
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