The Phillips Collection

Filing Period

Aug 1, 2010 to Jul 31, 2011

Signed

Mar 6, 2012

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$21,458,392

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Development and presentation of a series of special exhibitions including works from the museum's own collection as well as from other institutions and private collections throughout the world. Fy11 highlights included the display of two large newly acquired howard hodgkin prints initiating the 90th anniversary year, special displays of works acquired near the inception of the museum including a collection of tack works commissioned by duncan phillips specifically for display in the museum's music room, and exhibition of early photographs from the eastman house, exhibitions of david smith sculptures and philip guston rome period paintings, and a joint exhibition of kandinsky (featuring the painting with white border) and stella sculptures. The museum's contemporary series included a dramatic jae ko paper sculpture installation and installations by sam gilliam, nicholas and sheila pye, wolfgang laib, peter doig, and a. Balasubramaniam. Each exhibition features printed material, a guide by cell audio tour, and extensive programming. Introductory videos are featured on the museum's website and on youtube and vimeo. Scholarly catalogues written and developed by the museum's curators accompanied the david smith and kandinsky exhibitions.

Activity 3

Management and maintenance of the museum's permanent collection of approximately 3000 works originally created beginning in 1913 by duncan phillips and his wife marjorie phillips and opened to the public beginning in 1921 as the nation's first museum of modern art. Activities include conservation, acquisition of new works (128 by gift and 15 by purchase in fy11), digital reproduction for publications and for presentation on the museum's website and on artstor, and research and interpretation for scholars and the public utilizing the museum's library and archives. The museum lends frequently to colleague institutions. During fy11, 12 works were featured in major exhibitions at 5 foreign venues. Major works from the museum's american holdings continued to travel in our exhibition titled "masterworks of american art in the phillips collection", which opened at fundacion mapfre in madrid, spain in october 2010. The museum continued its academic collaboration with george washington university and also offered a one-day symposium on innovation with the university of virginia. The research arm of the museum, the center for the study of modern art, continued its lecture series of "conversations" with prominent contemporary artists and initiated a series of "conversations" with dc-based artists as well. Featured lecturers included alfredo jaar, peter doig, and anthony gromley.

Filer

EIN

53-0204620