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“Marilynn and I believe we have a cultural obligation to share the collection. We are just caregivers from one generation to the next.
When you are passionate about building a diverse collection, it’s a gift to be able to share it with others.”
– Carl Thoma
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Through our Museum Loan Program, the Thoma Foundation has loaned over 250 artworks from our collection to more than 200 exhibitions across the globe. Our collection areas include Art of the Spanish Americas, Digital & Media Art, Post-War Painting & Sculpture, and Japanese Bamboo. We make a concerted effort to share our collection with the public, conserve the works in it, and provide documentation and research that puts each piece into context.
We accept loan requests from organizations for exhibitions and long-term loans in permanent exhibitions that provide promising new insight into the fields of art in which we collect. We encourage exhibitions and research that coincide with ground-shifting concepts. As a standard practice, the Foundation only loans objects to individuals, galleries, or museums able to meet standard American Association of Museums guidelines.
All artwork loan requests must meet the following criteria:
- advance the Foundation’s mission to challenge and shift perceptions, spark creativity, and connect people across cultures;
- share innovative new research and approaches in one of our art collection areas;
- establish effective presentation, messaging, and communications around the project (exhibitions with a companion publication are encouraged); and
- demonstrate professional standards and planning by making your request a minimum of six months in advance, meeting facility standards set forth by the American Association of Museums and having a proposed time on view exceeding ninety days.
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The Foundation has loaned over 1,400 artworks to more than 250 exhibitions across the United States and the World.
Select Current Artwork Loans
- Americas Society, New York
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
- Benton Museum of Art
- Blanton Museum of Art
- Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
- Chazen Museum of Art
- Denver Art Museum
- Harvard Art Museums
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
- Hunter Museum of American Art
- LÁ Art Museum, Hveregeroi, Iceland
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Phoenix Art Museum
- San Antonio Museum of Art
- Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
- Tucson Museum of Art
- Visual Arts Center, Austin