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American artist Claude Buck was born in New York City on July 3, 1890. Buck was trained by his father, allowed to copy old master paintings in the Met by age seven, and thereafter studied in [...]

Guest post by Kitsa Behringer, MOA Educator Thank you to everyone who attended the BYU Museum of Art 2019 annual Family Arts Festival! From face painting and balloon animals to interactive dance [...]

At the entrance to the new exhibition Becoming America, a large painting welcomes you inside. The image itself is one of welcoming, showing a group of 20th-century immigrants arriving in New York [...]

Mahonri M. Young (1877-1957), End of a June Day, c. 1931, oil on canvas, 36 x 29 inches. Brigham Young University Museum, gift of the Mahonri M. Young Estate, 1959. Mahonri Young’s interest [...]

The new exhibition Becoming America is organized by theme, showcasing works of art of various mediums all in conversation with one another about the same theme. The first theme presented in the [...]

Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), The Prodigal Son, 1869, oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 36 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Ira and Mary Lou Fulton, [...]

N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth (1882-1945), Our Emblem, c.1942, oil on panel, 30 1/8 x 22 3/4 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art, gift of Frederick R. Hinckley, 1985. To commemorate [...]

What do we mean when we say “America”? Some think first of the United States of America, even though the land now called America existed long before the modern country that would [...]

Julian Alden Weir (1852 – 1919), In the Sun, c.1899, oil on canvas, 34 x 26 inches. Brigham young University Museum of Art, gift of the Mahonri M. Young Estate, 1959. This month we celebrate the [...]