European Art

The European Art Collection consists of around 300 works in all media created by artists who are citizens of Western and Eastern European countries.

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Lindberg Collection

A collection of European paintings assembled by Tacoma Art Museum founding members W. Hilding and Isabel Prescott Lindberg was gifted to the museum in 1982. Mr. Lindberg was a founder of the Ladd Logging Company, Director of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, and General Manager of the St. Regis Paper Company and active with a number of civic and commercial organizations particularly in the grocery industry.

The gift included 48 primarily French and German paintings from the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century, acquired by the Lindbergs in the 1950s and 1960s primarily through Lock Galleries, New York. Among them are works by such notable artists as Eugí¨ne Louis Boudin, Edgar Hilaire Degas, Henri Fantin-Latour, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Adolf Schreyer, and Karl Spitzweg. A visitor favorite is Renoir’s oil painting Heads of Two Young Girls [Tíªtes de deux jeunes filles], also known as The Two Sisters [Les Deux Soeurs], and Degas’ Dancers, a fan-shaped painting on silk. In 1995, the museum acquired two of Degas’ bronze sculptures of dancers to complement the fan painting.

Pierre Auguste Renoir (born Limoges, France, 1841; died Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, 1919), Heads of Two Young Girls, 1890. Oil on canvas,  23 5/8 í— 27 1/8 í— 3 inches.  Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Hilding Lindberg, 1983.1.35.