About the museum
The story of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston was founded in 1870 and moved to its present building on the Avenue of the Arts in 1909. It is one of the largest museums in the United States.
Its paintings include a celebrated group of Monets, Millet and the Barbizon painters, and great American portraits by Copley, Sargent and Gilbert Stuart.
The collection
The MFA's collection numbers about 500,000 objects. Its Impressionist holdings are among the largest anywhere, with more than thirty paintings by Monet, and it has the largest collection of works by Jean-François Millet in the world.
In American art it is unrivalled for portraits by John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart, and for the paintings and murals of John Singer Sargent, who decorated the museum's rotunda and colonnade.
At ArtLogia you can order 133 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 80 artists led by Eugène Louis Boudin, Thomas Cole and John Singleton Copley.
- paintings to order
- 133
- artists
- 80
- art movements
- 16
- years covered
- 1305–1908
The building
The museum moved from Copley Square to its neoclassical building on Huntington Avenue, designed by Guy Lowell, in 1909. Foster + Partners' Art of the Americas Wing, with its glass-covered courtyard, opened in 2010.
Masterpieces to see
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?Paul Gauguin, 1897 · Hand-painted reproduction available
The Daughters of Edward Darley BoitJohn Singer Sargent, 1882 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Dance at BougivalPierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883 · Hand-painted reproduction available
The Slave ShipJ. M. W. Turner, 1840 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Planning a visit
The Art of Europe galleries are on the second floor; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a few minutes' walk away.
