Two-eyed seeing makes visible the influence of historical European art while raising key considerations about what—and who—is missing, omitted, or rewritten from historical memory or collective consciousness.

Founded in 1973, the Blaffer Art Museum—then known as the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery—was home to the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Collection, a robust collection of European paintings from the sixteenth through early-nineteenth century. In 1979, the Blaffer Foundation re-acquired the collection and moved it to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Since 2000, the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation has stewarded and cared for a collection of early modern European art from approximately 1500 to 1800 in a dedicated wing consisting of five galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston on permanent view.