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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