The Milwaukee Art Museum: Quadracci Pavilion

If you are interested to check out the boldest, most spectacular and the most beautiful progressive summation of Wisconsin, you can find it in the presence of Quadracci Pavilion. It was originally the first art gallery (1888) in Milwaukee. This is located on Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, in the Wisconsin state.

This Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is designed by Santiago Calatrava (through Graef Milwaukee-based engineering firm) that includes Reiman Bridge, War Memorial Center, Kahler Building and the Quadracci Pavilion. It has 90 ft high, 341,000 sq-ft, with glass walled reception hall, movable (up and down) sunscreen (217 ft wingspan during the day), with over forty (40) galleries, with more than 35,000 artworks on four (4) floors that include the 17th to 20th century American and 15th to the 20th century European prints, paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, decorative arts, and self-taught and folk arts, and one of the best American Museums in the country.

The works of the masters and important artists are shown here. The artists included are Pablo Picasso, Frank Lloyd Wright, Auguste Rodin, Francisco de Zurbaran, Nardo di Cione, Robert Gober, Claude Monet, Joan Miro, Edgar Degas, Jean-Honeore Fragonard, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Winslow Homer, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jan Swart Van Groningen, Jan Goyen, Francesco Botticini, Franz Von Lenbach (‘Bavarian Girl’), Hendrick Van Vliet, Ferdinand Bol, Ferdinand Waldmuller (‘Interruption’), Christian Bokelman (‘Broken Bank’), Gustave Caillebotte, Bougereau, Camille Pissarro, Gerome (‘2 Majesties’), Max Pechstein, Alfred Kowalski (‘Winter in Russia’), Carl Spitzweg, and Jules Bastien-Lepage (‘The Wood Gatherer’), as well as Georgia O’Keeffe, a Wisconsin native. In addition, the museum has already held American Idol auditions in the year 2010.