page_title: Memorial Art Gallery
section_title: Collections
hierarchical_section_title: Memorial Art Gallery / Collections
context_page_description: The Memorial Art Gallery is the civic art museum of Rochester, New York. Founded in 1913, it is part of the University of Rochester and occupies the southern half of the University's former Prince Street campus. It is the focal point of fine arts activity in the region and hosts the biennial Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition and the annual Clothesline Festival.
context_section_description: The Gallery's permanent collection comprises some 12,000 objects, including works by Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, Homer and Cassatt. Contemporary masters in the collection include Wendell Castle, Albert Paley and Helen Frankenthaler. Other notable works include:
  George Eastman's collection of about 60 Old Master, British, Dutch, American, and French Barbizon School paintings, including Rembrandt's [Portrait of a Young Man in an Armchair]
  The Encyclopedia Britannica collection of twentieth-century American art
  The Charles Rand Penney collection
  Jean-Léon Gérôme's [Interior of a Mosque], the only painting from Hiram Sibley's original collection still in the Gallery's possession
  Egyptian and Eastern Mediterranean antiquities from the collection of Herbert Ocumpaugh, a 19th-century businessman
  Near East antiquities from the collection of Frederic Grinnell Morgan of Aurora, NY
  English and Continental silver from the 17th through 19th centuries from the collection of Ernest Woodward, heir to the Jell-O fortune
  El Greco's [The Apparition of the Virgin to St. Hyacinth], first work to be acquired from the Gallery's Marion Stratton Gould endowment
  Portrait of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester
  The permanent collection includes more than 500 objects from the collections of four generations of the Sibley and Watson families.
caption: One of the first works "Morning Star" by Eugen Bracht, acquired in 1913[16]
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