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Blanton Museum of Art
UT Campus · Austin, Texas
The Blanton Museum of Art is the flagship art museum of The University of Texas at Austin, with a collection of 18,000 works that stands as one of the finest university art museums in the United States. The collection's greatest strengths lie in its survey of Latin American art - one of the most comprehensive in the country - its exemplary collection of Italian Renaissance paintings, and Ellsworth Kelly's monumental final work, "Austin," a freestanding building of colored glass and white marble that functions as both architecture and total work of art. Free to UT students and affordably priced for the public, the Blanton is one of Austin's most essential cultural institutions.
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