Field Trip: Kimball Art Museum

 Today, we visited the Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.  

Here's the site: https://kimbellart.org

Admission to the regular collection is free.  There are special, traveling exhibits which require a fee for entry.  The museum itself is very small, quiet and simple.  There is an app that gives an audio tour of the collection.  

Most of the artwork is concentrated in galleries on the second floor.  There are sculptures from ancient Egypt and Babylon all the way to paintings from Picasso.  The collection is small, but incredible.  This is our favorite art museum in this part of Texas.

The best exhibit in this museum is a painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti (The Torment of Saint Anthony, 1487) that he painted when he was about thirteen years old. https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-200901

There is also a Claude Monet painting (Weeping Willow, 1918-1919):  https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-199602

A Rembrandt (Bust of a Young Jew, 1663): https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-197704

A Picasso (Man with a Pipe, 1911): https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-196608

Mondrian Art (Abstraction, 1939-1942): https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-199405

There is an interactive app for teens that I wish I would've known about before we went to the museum: https://kimbellart.org/participate/interact#kimbellteenartscope

My art-phobic 14 year-old really enjoyed this field trip.