The Phillips Collection

Filing Period

Aug 1, 2011 to Jul 31, 2012

Signed

Mar 14, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$17,011,749

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Development and presentation of a series of special exhibitions drawn from the museum's own holdings as well as from other institutions and private collectors. Fy12 highlights included "degas's dancers at the barre" which celebrated the artist's crowning achievement and demonstrated through conservation analyses that this painting was actually begun in the 1880's but reworked and completed nearly 20 years later. The painting is owned by the phillips collection and was complemented in the exhibition by works from 24 other collections. Attendance for the exhibition totalled over 64,000, besting all but four prior exhibitions. A major exhibition of over 200 photographs made in the 1890's by a group of post-impressionist artists, entitled "snapshot: painters and photography, bonnard to vuillard", revealed how the development of the kodak camera influenced these well-known artists. "jasper johns: variations on a theme" featured nearly 100 of his iconic prints and works on paper created between 1960 and 2011. The museum's contemporary series, intersections, included a beautiful cafe installation by sandra cinto "one day after the rain", alyson shotz's "ecliptic", and allan desouza's "world series". Other important installations of featured artists included joseph marioni and anthony gormley. A guide by cell audio tour and extensive programming accompanied each exhibition. Introductory videos are featured on the museum's website as well as on youtube and vimeo. Scholarly catalogues written and developed by the museum's curators with their colleagues were published by yale university press to accompany the degas and snapshot exhibitions.

Activity 3

Management and maintenance of the museum's permanent collection of approximately 3,000 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 through both gift and purchase, digital reproduction for publications and for presentation on the museum's website and on artstor and google art, and research and interpretation for scholars and the public utilizing the museum's library and archives. The museum lends frequently to colleague institutions and develops exhibitions for presentation at other museums. During fy12, the museum's american holdings continued to travel in our exhibition titled "masterworks of american art in the phillips collection", which was featured at the national arts center in tokyo and at the frist center in nashville. The museum continued its academic collaboration with george washington university and participated in a number of programs with the university of virginia. Prominently featured artists in our "conversations" lecture and discussion series included wolfgang laib, the ottolith group, anthony mccall, janine antoni, and william pope l.

Filer

EIN

53-0204620