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メンフィス (テネシー州) / アメリカ合衆国

メンフィス（英語: Memphis）は、アメリカ合衆国テネシー州の西端にある都市。州都ナッシュビルを上回る同州最大の都市で、ミシシッピ川に面している。市名はエジプトの古代都市にして都の一つでもあるメンフィスに因む。19世紀に綿花の集散地として発展する一方で奴隷市が開かれた歴史を持ち、今でも人口の約6割をアフリカ系アメリカ人が占める。ミシシッピ川から突き出たマッド・アイランドは母なるミシシッピ川とアメリカの歴史をモチーフとしたテーマパークになっている。

Dixon Gallery and Gardens

メンフィス (テネシー州) / アメリカ合衆国

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is an art museum within 17 acres of gardens, established in 1976, and located at 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The museum focuses on French and American impressionism and features works by Monet, Degas, and Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Berthe Morisot, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, and Alfred Sisley, as well as an extensive collection of works by French Impressionist artist Jean-Louis Forain. The museum also houses the Stout Collection of 18th-century German porcelain. With nearly 600 pieces of tableware and figures, it is one of the finest such collections in the United States. The Dixon also features a comprehensive schedule of original and traveling exhibitions of fine art and horticulture. The museum sits within four principal outdoor sculpture gardens with Greco-Roman sculpture. Its site was acquired by the Dixons in 1939, and landscaped in the English Garden style with open vistas adjacent to smaller, intimate formal spaces. The major areas within the gardens are the Cutting Garden, Formal Garden, South Lawn, and Woodland Gardens.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

メンフィス (テネシー州) / アメリカ合衆国

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is an art museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The Brooks Museum, which was founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest art museum in the state of Tennessee. The museum is a privately funded nonprofit institution located in Overton Park in Midtown Memphis.