AFMO supports the newly expanded Holidays at the Orsay program, a bilingual initiative to nurture art among the museum’s youngest visitors.

March 26 - July 14, 2024 @MuséeOrsay

AFMO will support the exceptional exhibition Paris 1874. Inventing Impressionism at the heart of the 150th anniversary of Impressionism celebrations.

With the generous support of our patrons, AFMO has contributed to the development of newly enhanced welcome spaces to offer visitors a new and improved experience.

March 14 – July 2, 2023
@MuséeOrsay

AFMO supported Pastels. From Millet to Redon, the spring 2023 exhibition at the Orsay.

In addition to the exhibition, AFMO also committed to supporting the English-language edition of the Pastels album.

Since 2019, AFMO supports the Contemporary Art programs at both the Orsay and the Orangerie. World-class artists are invited to share their vision of the museum through exhibitions, conferences, and educational programming.

In 2018, the centennial exhibition at the Orangerie, The Waterlilies, American Abstract Painting and the Last Monet broke previous attendance numbers.

AFMO acquired for the Orsay the last portfolio available on the market of 119 works by Frances B. Johnston, one of the most important photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Since the museum opened in 1986, the most highly-prized marble sculptures have been exhibited in the main nave and the two adjoining terraces.

In January 2016, the Musée d’Orsay received the Zeïneb and Jean-Pierre Marcie-Rivière Collection of 50 paintings and 89 drawings by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.

AFMO supported the English version of the catalog.
The exhibition held in 2016, focused on Bazille’s contribution to the concerns of avant-garde painting in the 1860’s – modern life, the renewal of traditional genres such as portraits, nudes and still lives.

The American Friends were pleased to support the catalog, published bilingually in English and French for the 2016 exhibition of Neil Levine’s unique collection of architectural drawings.

In April 2015, AFMO announced a grant of 65,000 € toward improvements in the galleries which hold some of the premiere cultural attractions in all of France.

Legendary French artist Gustave Courbet’s large-scale masterpiece The Artist’s Studio was initially acquired with help from public donations. Now over one hundred years old, the renowned work is in a fragile state, largely due to its poor storage conditions before it entered the national collections.

Fall 2012, AFMO granted funds for the Orsay to purchase a pair of rare “Moorish style” chairs made in the 1880s by the New York firm, Herter Brothers. The Herter Brothers firm, were the interior designers of choice for the wealthy barons of America’s “Gilded Age.”

This spring, AFMO funded the restoration of a bronze figure of Liberty Enlightening the World by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. Bartholdi cast the bronze from one of his preliminary studies for his colossal New York sculpture more popularly known as the “Statue of Liberty.”