Kimbell Art Museum

The Kimbell Art Museum officially opened on October 4, 1972. The Kimbell Art Foundation, which owns and operates the Museum, had been established in 1936. Early on, the Foundation collected mostly British and French portraits of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In April 1964 the collection had grown to 260 paintings and 86 other works of art. The collection today consists of about 350 works that not only epitomize their periods and movements but also touch individual high points of aesthetic beauty and historical importance.