Meadows Museum

In the 1950s the Dallas oilman Algur Meadows began buying Spanish paintings on business trips to Madrid, hanging El Grecos and Goyas in his office. Years later much of what he had bought turned out to be modern fakes, many by the forger Elmyr de Hory. Rather than hide it, Meadows started again, this time buying with expert guidance.

The result opened at Southern Methodist University in 1965 and soon earned the nickname the Prado on the Prairie, for a depth of Spanish art unusual outside Spain itself. It runs from medieval altarpieces through the Golden Age to Goya, Sorolla and Picasso.

Goya is the deepest strength, with five of his paintings and his major print series, and Velazquez is here too, including an early portrait of the young King Philip IV, painted when the artist was barely into his twenties.