About the museum
The story of the Museo de Arte de Ponce
The Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico was founded in 1959 by the industrialist Luis A. Ferré. Its building of linked hexagonal galleries was designed by Edward Durell Stone.
It holds one of the finest collections of European art in the Caribbean, especially Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian painting.
The collection
The museum holds about 4,500 works, with European art from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, Latin American and Puerto Rican art. It is especially strong in Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian painting, including Burne-Jones's The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon.
Its most famous painting, Frederic Leighton's Flaming June, was bought by Luis A. Ferré in 1963 when Victorian art was out of fashion.
At ArtLogia you can order 9 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 8 artists led by Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
- paintings to order
- 9
- artists
- 8
- art movements
- 5
- years covered
- 1550–1895
The building
Edward Durell Stone's building of 1965 is formed by linked hexagonal galleries lit by skylights, with a curving double staircase. It reopened in 2010 after expansion and renovation.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton is the museum's best-known painting and has become a symbol of the collection.
