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Today, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), revealed the results of an in-depth study of Boston’s cultural audience, Culture Track 2014: Focus on…
On July 1, 2013, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, launched a new fundraising campaign, The Future Is Now, with the goal of raising $200 million over the course of three years. As we near the end of this first year, we are very pleased to share a progress report with the broader Museum family.
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Share your knowledge about transportation design Twentieth-century transportation design is a new area of collecting and research for the MFA, and for…
Campaign Update—Fall 2014 As we steadily move forward in the second year of the MFA’s The Future Is Now Campaign, there is exciting news to share…
Campaign Update—Winter 2015 Welcome to the latest update on the MFA’s The Future Is Now Campaign. We are thrilled to report that the Campaign has made…
Enjoy a selection of featured gifts of art representing transformative donations from visionary collectors.
JENNIFER SWOPE: I think of the color wheel as a model or a diagram of all the colors we can see. The color wheel is really well designed for teaching about color, because it breaks things down into primary and secondary colors, and really shows you how colors combine, or the basic colors, what we call the primary colors, which are red, yellow, and blue, are combined to make the secondary colors, which are green, orange, and purple.
GERALD ROY: A very important quilt in the exhibit is the Yellow and White Baskets. Through my years of teaching color, yellow has always been probably the most difficult, not the most important, but the most difficult color to use. And it’s because the light refractive quality of yellow is greater than any of the other colors in the color wheel. Yellow green, yellow orange, orange, have strong, strong refractive qualities. But yellow has the greatest.