Founded by artists, the Boca Raton Museum of Art was established in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton. The organization has grown to encompass an Art School, Guild, Store, and Museum with permanent collections of contemporary art, photography, non-western art, glass, and sculpture, as well as a diverse selection of special exhibitions. The museum is located at 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, Florida in Mizner Park. About The Boca Museum of Art features an assortment of traveling exhibitions and permanent collections from established and rising artists including works of art by a number of the great masters. It offers educational programs, artist lectures, films, classes for children, and events. The museums see more than 200,000 patrons annually, making it a major cultural institution in Boca Raton and the surrounding area. The museum promotes sketching in the galleries and even provides clipboards, sketchbooks, and pencils at the front desk. The Boca Raton Museum of Art is a Blue Star museum, meaning it offers free admission to active duty military and their families between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. A newsletter titled "Muse" is published bi-annually and is available for download on the museum's website. Permanent Collection 19th- and 20th-century European and American painting, drawings and sculpture The Dr. & Mrs. John J. Mayers Collection of Modern Masters (including Degas, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso, Seurat and others) After Minimalism: Abstract Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s The Art of Artifacts of West Africa The Jean and David Colker Collection of Pre-Columbian art and Selections from the Photography Collection Sculpture Gardens Collections. More than 30 sculptures are featured at the museum and the art school* Artists in the collection Arman Samuel Bak Will Barnet Jennifer Bartlett Georg Baselitz Leonard Baskin Rudolf Bauer George Bellows Isabel Bishop Oscar Florianus Bluemner Ilya Bolotowsky Graciela Rodo Boulanger Stanley Boxer Georges Braque Jack Bush Alexander Calder Anthony Caro Leonora Carrington Lynn Chadwick Marc Chagall John Chamberlain Mihail Chemiakin Jules Chéret Sandro Chia Judy Chicago Dale Chihuly Dan Christensen Christo and Jeanne-Claude Chryssa Howard Chandler Christy Chuck Close George Cohen John Constable Lovis Corinth Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo Bill Crawford Carlos Cruz-Díez José Luis Cuevas Allan D'Arcangelo Haydn Llewellyn Davies Arthur Bowen Davies Gene Davis Stuart Davis Adolf Dehn Elaine de Kooning Sonia Delaunay Charles Demuth Lesley Dill Jim Dine Stevan Dohanos Enrico Donati Roland Dorcely Jean