Ulrich Museum of Art, Art museum at Wichita State University, United States.
The Ulrich Museum of Art is a museum at Wichita State University housing a collection of modern and contemporary works within a contemporary building. The collection spans painting, sculpture, and other art forms by established and emerging artists from different continents and movements.
The Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art opened on December 7, 1974, in the McKnight Art Center at Wichita State University, in a building designed by architect Charles F. McAfee. Joan Miró's mosaic Personnages Oiseaux was installed on the south facade in 1978; it was removed in 2011 for repairs costing $2.2 million and returned in 2016.
The museum's name honours Edwin A. Ulrich, and its best-known work is Joan Miró's Personnages Oiseaux, a 28-by-52-foot mosaic of Venetian glass and marble tesserae on 80 panels, made by Ateliers Loire in Chartres. The Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection places 80 works by artists such as Auguste Rodin, Fernando Botero and Claes Oldenburg across 330 acres of campus.
The museum occupies the McKnight Art Center on the Wichita State University campus, and the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection of 80 works is dispersed across 330 acres of campus, so allow time to walk between pieces. The Miró mural faces south on the building's facade, where it was reinstalled in 2016 after removal in 2011.
The Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection numbers 80 works across 330 acres and was ranked among the top ten campus sculpture collections by Public Art Review in 2006. It includes pieces by Auguste Rodin, Fernando Botero, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Goldsworthy and Joan Miró.
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