Meadows Museum

Meadows Museum, founded in 1965 at Southern Methodist University from the collection of oilman and philanthropist Algur H. Meadows, has become one of the United States’ essential places to encounter Spanish art. Its holdings trace a long arc from medieval devotion and court portraiture to modern rupture, linking painters such as Velázquez and Goya to 20th-century voices including Picasso. In Dallas, the museum reads as a cultural bridge—an intimate, sustained conversation with Spain’s visual history far from Spain itself.