History
The museum was founded by Mary Katherine Dulin Folger in 1961 as the Dulin Gallery of Art. The gallery was housed in the H.L. Dulin House at 3100 Kingston Pike. The Dulin House was designed in 1915 by prominent architect John Russell Pope in the Neoclassical Revival style. The museum merged with the Knoxville Art Center in 1962, and the name was changed in 1987 to the Knoxville Museum of Art, the same year that the museum moved to the Candy Factory building at the site of the 1982 World's Fair.
The present 53,200-square-foot (4,940 m2) museum building was completed in 1990 following an $11 million community fundraising campaign. The steel and concrete building, designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, has an exterior skin of Tennessee pink marble. The building is named for Jim Clayton, who was the largest donor to its construction.
The museum includes five galleries, as well as a Sculpture Terrace, and two large outdoor garden areas.
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