Blanton Museum of Art

The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, usually called the Blanton, belongs to the University of Texas at Austin in Texas, and ranks among the largest university art museums in the United States. Its permanent collection holds more than 22,000 works, with particular strength in European Old Master paintings, modern and contemporary art, and Latin American art. Founded in 1927, when Archer M. Huntington gave land to the university for a museum, it occupies buildings expanded in 2006 and later renovated. Among the paintings listed on its web pages are works by Albert Bierstadt, such as Indian Canoe, along with pieces by Guercino, George Romney's Lady Hamilton as Ambassadress, and Nicolas de Largillière's Portrait of a Man.