Lowe Art Museum

The Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami is an art museum located within the University of Miami campus that serves the university and Greater South Florida communities, as well as national and international visitors.  It has both visiting and permanent exhibits in a wide range of topics in art and history.

Arguably, no museum in South Florida has the wide ranging collection available for display that the Lowe Museum has at its disposal.  It’s 17,500–object collection is one of the most important in the southeast, with strengths in Renaissance and Baroque, American, Ancient and Native American, and Asian art.  The dazzling collection includes items such as Greek and Roman antiquities, Native America textiles, hand carved Asian sculptures, and Renaissance paintings.  The museum also holds paintings from greats such as Monet, Picasso, Gaugin, Jacob Jordaens, Goya, Dali, and many more!

The development of its highly regarded collection is traced through sustained support from Miami and winter resident patrons who, from its beginning, have supported the Lowe with major gifts of art and funding. A 1956 donation by Alfred I. Barton brought one of the country’s finest collections of Native American art. In 1954, the Lowe was designated the only Florida recipient in a national distribution of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation collection, and, in 1961, constructed a 2,100 square foot gallery to house the 41 Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures that are the backbone of its Western collection.

The Americas Collection includes 2,000 works surveying art in the Americas during the 19th and 20th centuries. The Lowe’s Ancient American collection was begun in 1958 but achieved international stature with the gift of 531 works by Robert M. Bischoff in 1984. The Lowe’s important Asian collection was built over twenty years with superb Chinese, Korean and Japanese ceramics, painting and sculpture, donated by Stephen Junkunc III, a Chicago native and Miami winter resident.