Museum Collection

The Museum's permanent collection includes paintings by noted artists such as Rockwell Kent, Abraham Walkowitz, Abraham Rattner, Ralph Goings, and Sylvia Plimack Mangold. The work of influential regional artists, including Syd Solomon, Theodore Coe, Mernet Larsen, and Theo Wujcik, are a significant component of the painting collection.

Robert Gordy (American, 1933–1986) La Toilette, 1968 Acrylic on canvas Museum Purchase, Edward Arthur Acquisition Fund 1984.125 The artist often used soothing decorative patterns to seduce the viewer into a painted environment that, upon reflection, is anything but soothing. Instead tension permeates the utopian setting. Idealized nudes appear to fly through the space while treelike forms and rolling hills comprise the landscape.
	Alice Dalton Brown (American, born 1939) Kathy’s Room II, 1983–84, Oil on canvas. Gift of Betty and Bob Dalton 1993.9 Alice Dalton Brown concentrates on houses as her theme because she believes they are among the most evocative of all subjects for artists. She states "they involve memory, fantasy, reality as well as that Great Divide: home versus the outside world."
James Davis (American, born 1931) The Voyeur, 1985 Oil on canvas. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Small, Jr. 1994.51 Davis favors enigmatic imagery that challenges, baffles, and bemuses viewers. Most of his themes seem to emerge from the darker side of experience, intimating doom, destruction or fear. Many seem to document a moment that has previously happened or to suggest what is about to happen.
	Alma Thomas (American, 1891-1978) New Galaxy, 1970 Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 54 inches Collection of the Tampa Museum of Art Gift of Douglas H Teller in memory of Julian H. Singman 97.17
Sylvia Plimack Mangold (American, born 1938) Trees at the Pond, 1985 Oil on linen, 60 x 80 inches Collection of the Tampa Museum of Art Gift of Mrs. Kathleen Rozier in memory of Judith R. Blanchard 88.5
	Ralph Goings Collins Diner, 1986 Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 inches Collection of the Tampa Museum of Art 1986.3

Museum Collection

The Tampa Museum of Art's collection of contemporary art is in storage while TMA is housed in its temporary location at 2306 N. Howard Avenue in Tampa.

Construction of the new museum facility in downtown Tampa's Curtis Hixon Park will begin in early 2008, with the opening of the new building expected in the fall of 2009.

Paintings