European Art

The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block collection includes more than 115 works of European Art, including works on paper, paintings, and sculptures, first acquired in 1967 through the Tucson Fine Arts Association. Included in the European collection are an illuminated manuscript from the 12th century, a 17th century etching by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 18th century etchings by Francisco de Goya, 19th century etchings and lithographs by Pierre August Renoir, and Käthe Kollwitz, and works in all media by Georges Rouault, Marino Marini, Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Maurice Utrillo, and Hans Arp, to name a few. The museum’s first acquisition was Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s La Revue Blanche, donated by former Arizona State Museum Curator, Frederick R. Pleasants. In 2017, the museum announced a dedicated gallery to the European Art Collection, the Palice Gallery of European Art, with the gift of Bathers, a late 1800s painting by French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and by bequest from the Katheryne B. Willock Trust.

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Charles George Dufresne, Le Cheval Bleu (The Blue Horse), 20th century

Charles George Dufresne, Le Cheval Bleu, 20th century, oil on paper mounted on canvas. From the Tucson Museum of Art Collection. Gift of the Heller Foundation, Washington D.C., in memory of Lawrence J. Heller. 1976.281.