About the museum
The story of the Timken Museum of Art
The Timken Museum of Art in San Diego's Balboa Park opened in 1965 to show the Putnam Foundation collection. Admission is free.
It is small but holds remarkable European old masters and American painting, including the only Rembrandt in San Diego.
The collection
The Timken shows the collection of the Putnam Foundation, founded by the sisters Anne and Amy Putnam. Its small group of European old masters includes Rembrandt's Saint Bartholomew, Bruegel's Parable of the Sower and works by Bellini and Boucher.
It also holds American paintings by Eastman Johnson, Albert Bierstadt and Fitz Henry Lane, and a collection of Russian icons.
At ArtLogia you can order 28 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 27 artists led by Nicolas de Largillière, Frans Hals and Camille Corot.
- paintings to order
- 28
- artists
- 27
- art movements
- 10
- years covered
- 1457–1900
The building
The modernist building by Frank Hope and Associates opened in 1965 in Balboa Park, among the Spanish Revival buildings of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
It is one of many museums in Balboa Park, so it combines easily with a day in the park.
