THE SARAH CAMPBELL BLAFFER FOUNDATION

Mailing Address: Post Office Box 6826, Houston, Texas 77265 6826
Office Address: 5100 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77006
Telephone: (713) 639 7741
Fax: (713) 639 7742

Sarah Campbell Blaffer, 1885-1975

The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation maintains a collection of Renaissance and Baroque art for the benefit of the people of Texas. The goal of the Foundation is to collect and preserve masterworks of art and to present this collection for educational purposes. Special attention has been given to producing comprehensive collections that reveal the breadth of subject matter and genre of painting in any given period or region.

Operating without a permanent exhibition space, the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation has toured its art works widely in Texas and elsewhere. However, substantial gallery space in the planned Audrey Jones Beck Building of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, scheduled to open on 25 March 2000, will be devoted to works in the Foundation's collection.

This web site allows access to images of and information about virtually all the paintings in the Foundation's collection, as well as a checklist of the prints belonging to the Foundation. The catalogue of the collection as it appears at this site is intended to be dynamic. The Foundation director, James Clifton, is currently writing a systematic catalogue of the paintings for publication in book form, and this web site is essentially that catalogue as it develops. Your comments on works in the collection or on the texts that appear at this site are therefore very welcome. If you have further information on the works, comments on or corrections to the texts as they appear here, please send them to the Foundation using the e-mail link provided on this page and subsequent pages. Information on the paintings is also available in catalogues of the collection by Christopher Wright, Terisio Pignatti, Martin Butlin, and Renaud Temperini. (Full references can be found in the bibliography to the on-line catalogue.)

More information on Sarah Campbell Blaffer and the Foundation

Catalogue of the Collection

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

In addition to paintings generally on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the San Antonio Museum of Art, Blaffer Foundation works can often be seen in special exhibitions. For information about these exhibitions, click here.

This page has been visited many, many times since 7/13/95.

Please send comments and questions to James Clifton, director.

Last updated by jdc on 4/7/98