Boca Raton Museum of Art

found: Carothers, S.M. Popular and preferred imagery ... c1989:t.p. (Boca Raton Museum of Art) p. 143 (Boca Museum; Boca Museum of Art)

found: Wikipedia, June 8, 2023(Boca Raton Museum of Art; founded by artists, the Boca Raton Museum of Art was established in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton; the organization has grown to encompass an Art School, Guild, Store, and Museum with permanent collections of contemporary art, photography, non-western art, glass, and sculpture, as well as a diverse selection of special exhibitions; the museum is located at 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, Florida in Mizner Park)

found: Florida History & the Arts, via WWW, June 8, 2023(Spring 2006 edition; Celebrating 55 Years - The Boca Raton Museum of Art; the Museum's roots extend to the late 1940s, when a group of socially active women came together to form the town's first organization, a civic club, with the goal to build a small library; an estimated crowd of 1,000 attended the library's open house, which included an exhibition of paintings borrowed from friends and loaned by galleries from Palm Beach to Miami; in response to interest in the paintings, the library association formed the Art Guild of Boca Raton in1950; in 1962 the Art Guild dedicated its newly constructed building on Palmetto Park Road; that building, which the Museum occupied until January 2001, now houses the Boca Raton Museum Art School; within seven years, the building required an expansion, and three studio classrooms were added; in 1973 the Art Guild officially became a not-for-profit corporation, and in 1985 changed its name to the Boca Raton Museum of Art; in 1978 the Museum hired its first full-time Director, and began a program of collections acquisition and changing exhibitions; on January 24, 2001, the new Boca Raton Museum of Art opened to the public at Mizner Park) - https://web.archive.org/web/20071024224346/http://www.flheritage.com/services/magazine/index.cfm?action=article&season=06spring&article=51

notfound: Milton Avery, major work, 1982: t.p. (Boca Raton Center for the Arts, Boca Raton, Fla.)