Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – La Farge "The Fish and Flowering Branch" window

Some cool fine arts images:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – La Farge "The Fish and Flowering Branch" window

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Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts USA • Also called "The Fish". ∞ From a visit in the Spring 2006. ∞ A cultural treasure trove.

San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts

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San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts at dusk

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts - The entrance and steps

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This is the The Barber Institute of Fine Arts building on the University of Birmingham main campus.

It is listed currently as being on University Road, and no longer Edgbaston Park Road (I would assume that University Road is the road that goes from Edgbaston Park Road into the University grounds proper).

It is a Grade II listed building built between 1935 and 1939, designed by architect Robert Atkinson.

It is an art gallery and concert hall, and is an Art Deco building. It was opened by Queen Mary.


1935 completed 1939, architect Robert Atkinson. Sophisticated design marrying
elements of traditional institutional classicism with Dudok inspired stone
dressed brick modern. A 2 storey compact block with shallow full height portal
wing to right hand of front. Ashlar faced ground floor and blind lst floor of
brick with flat coped roofline. The horizontal emphasis of the strip
fenestration of the ground floor is suavely combined with the vertical accent of
the slightly battered portal. The latter is complemented in small scale by
ashlar panels carved with symbols of the Arts on the first floor and reflected
by the visual stop of the larger panel at the end of return east elevation.
The banding and strip fenestration of the front follows round on to the side and
rear elevations giving a crisp linear definition to the design.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts - Heritage Gateway

The main entance and steps as I kept going back.