Meadows Museum

The Meadows Museum, a division of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University (SMU), advances knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the arts and culture of Spain through the collection and interpretation of works of the greatest aesthetic and historical importance.

Thanks to generous contributions from The Meadows Foundation, donors, and friends, the Meadows Museum continues the active acquisition program that began during Mr. Meadows's lifetime. Through the acquisition of works by artists such as Juan Carreño de Miranda, Vicente López, Sorolla, Zuloaga, Francisco Bayeu, Raimundo de Madrazo, and Goya, the Meadows Museum has further expanded its founding collection. The scope of the Museum's holdings continues to grow through the procurement of works by artists not previously represented in the collection in a variety of media, such as Alonso Cano's Christ Child, which functioned originally as a tabernacle door of a seventeenth-century altarpiece, and a rare, late Baroque terracotta sculpture of St. Paul the Hermit by Juan Alonso Villabrille y Ron. The Museum's twentieth-century collection has also been enhanced considerably through very recent acquisitions of works by Esteban Vicente, Miquel Barceló, Juan Muñoz, and Salvador Dalí, whose L'homme poisson is the first oil on canvas by the artist to enter a public collection in Texas.