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Major Dallas-Fort Worth art museums contribute masterpieces to Google Art Project

We trust you take the time to get out there and explore the richness of our city’s cultural institutions. However, now you can meaningfully browse the collections of three major Dallas-Fort Worth art museums the way we consume a lot of things these days: online.

The Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth are the latest to join Google Art Project, a virtual art gallery that allows users to explore the world’s greatest works. Collectively they have added more than 1,700 high-resolution images to the project.

The high resolution of the images and custom-built zoom enable people to see these works in ways never before imagined — or at least closer than the museum security guard has ever allowed.

Highlights from the DMA’s contributions include Sheaves of Wheat by Vincent van Gogh and a gold Sicán ceremonial mask from Peru. The Nasher, internationally renowned for its selection of modern and contemporary sculpture, submitted Auguste Rodin’s The Age of Bronze and Mark di Suvero’s Eviva Amore. The Amon Carter contributed an impressive 1,200 images from the greatest names in American art, such as Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.

In Google Art Project, users can browse by artist’s name, name of the work, type of art, institution, country, collections or time period. The high resolution of the images and custom-built zoom enable people to see these works in ways never before imagined — or at least closer than the museum security guard has ever allowed.

With the My Gallery feature, enthusiasts can build their own personal collections, which they can share with others. There is also a tool to compare works side-by-side. To date, there are more than 57,000 objects to explore.

Google Art Project — which launched in 2011 in cooperation with international museums such as the Tate Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Uffizi in Florence — is part of the Google Cultural Institute, which is dedicated to creating technology that helps the cultural community bring their art, archives, heritage sites and other material online. The aim is to increase the range and volume of material from the cultural world that is available for people to explore online and, in doing so, democratize access to it and preserve it for future generations.

The DMA also contributed this gold Sicán ceremonial mask from peru.

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Photo courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art

The DMA also contributed this gold Sicán ceremonial mask from peru.

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Museum News

2 Dallas museums partner on landmark Roy Lichtenstein acquisition

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Roy Lichtenstein

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and the Nasher Sculpture Center will present works from the joint acquisition of more than 50 artworks generously gifted by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in 2024, showing prints, drawings, and sculptures by the groundbreaking American artist at the two neighboring institutions in the Dallas Arts District.

According to a release, the installations will be on view from January 31 to August 16, 2026 at the Nasher and from January 1 to July 5, 2026 at the DMA.

The joint gift made by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation to the DMA and the Nasher in Celebration of the Centennial of Roy Lichtenstein is comprised of a selection of prints, drawings, maquettes, and sculptures by Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), a leading figure in twentieth-century American art and a pioneer of the Pop Art movement.

The works were specifically selected by the curatorial staff of both institutions and relate to objects already in their respective collections including sculptures, works on paper, and maquettes, along with tools and study objects.

Organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center’s Senior Curator Dr. Catherine Craft, The Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the DMA Ade Omotosho, and The Allen and Kelli Questrom Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the DMA Dr. Emily Friedman, the presentation is divided according to each institution’s strengths and will be shown in combination with objects by Lichtenstein already in their respective permanent collections.

At the Nasher, works relating to three sculptures from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection—Head with Blue Shadow, Peace through Chemistry, and Double Glass—will be accompanied by a selection from the Foundation's gift of more than two dozen drawings and maquettes associated with Lichtenstein’s Brushstroke sculptures.

At the Dallas Museum of Art, the presentation features a set of Brushstroke sculptures carved from wood alongside various prints and studies that reveal the artist’s eclectic imagery.

Events
In addition to the exhibition, the DMA and the Nasher will co-host a Study Day focused on the artist on March 28, 2026, sponsored by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. This scholarly event will bring together a variety of curators, academics, and conservators to discuss Lichtenstein’s studio practice and the fabrication and conservation of his sculptures.

Concluding the Study Day will be a public conversation held at the DMA between Nasher Director Carlos Basualdo and artist Alex Da Corte, regarding Da Corte’s work on the forthcoming Lichtenstein retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

“In bestowing this generous gift, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation established Dallas as a center for the study and display of Lichtenstein’s work,” Basualdo says in a statement. “This collaborative presentation of the gift and the corresponding programming is an important step in the direction of pursuing that goal, deepening the understanding of an artist who remains immensely influential to contemporary art and its relationship with mass media and today’s culture.”

Roy Lichtenstein is made possible by support from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and the Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District (DTPID).

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