Timken Museum of Art
the Timken is a fine art museum located in Balboa
Park in San Diego, California and considered to be one of the "great
small museums of the world", opening in 1965, with a small
collection that had been owned by the Putnam Foundation and funding
from the Timken family. The nucleus of this magnificent collection
would be bought by sisters Anne and Amy Putnam, who had settled in
the area in the early 20th century and began making donations to the
San Diego Museum of Art, during its early years and would later
create a foundation that loaned their outstanding purchases to
numerous noteworthy museums around the country. The collection
contains works by Americans, Copley, Cole, Bierstadt and West,
French masters Claude, Boucher, Corot, Clouet, David and Fragonard,
Spanish Murillo, Italians Guercino, Veronese and Savoldo and Flemish
and Dutch masters, Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Hals, Pieter Brueghel
the Elder and Anthony Van Dyck.
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