Sentences with phrase «extraordinary gift of art»

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«Dr. Richard Shane's sleep program is state of the art and an extraordinary gift to a society that does not sleep well.»

For Gorky this was no easy endeavor: critic Meyer Schapiro called him a «fervent scrutinizer» of paintings, an ability corroborated by his close friend Willem de Kooning (whose own painting owes much to Gorky): «for some mysterious reason, he knew lots more about painting, and art... He had an extraordinary gift for hitting the nail on the head.»

Published on the occasion of an exhibition celebrating Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner's gift of nearly five hundred fifty works of art to the Whitney Museum and more than three hundred to the Centre Pompidou, Paris, this catalogue presents highlights of the extraordinary contemporary art collection the couple has accumulated over the course of more than thirty years.

The remarkable career of gallerist and patron Virginia Dwan is featured front and center for the first time in an exhibition of some 100 works, including highlights from Dwan's promised gift of her extraordinary personal collection to the National Gallery of Art.

By making a planned gift to SAM, you recognize the extraordinary value of art in our lives and the generations to come.

Honoring Virginia Dwan's gift from her extraordinary personal collection to the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959 — 1971 will be on view in Concourse galleries of the newly renovated East Building.

The collection of American art is from Jane and the late Frank Batten, Sr., who have generously placed these nine extraordinary paintings on long - term loan as promised gifts to the Chrysler.

The Dallas Museum of Art is excited to announce the gift of three major works of European art that reflect the extraordinary generosity of Dallas collectors and their dedication to expanding the Museum's collection in meaningful waArt is excited to announce the gift of three major works of European art that reflect the extraordinary generosity of Dallas collectors and their dedication to expanding the Museum's collection in meaningful waart that reflect the extraordinary generosity of Dallas collectors and their dedication to expanding the Museum's collection in meaningful ways.

Drawing on the extraordinary Princeton University Jewish American Collection, gift of Mr. Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953, and Mr. Leonard L. Milberg's personal collection, together with art, objects, and documents from the New - York Historical Society and other collections, the exhibition follows the familiar and unfamiliar pathways taken by Jews to these shores, as well as their efforts to adapt to their new homeland.

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is delighted to announce an extraordinary gift to its permanent collection from long - time friend and generous donor Charles Pendexter, a current resident of Brunswick, Maine.

In celebration of this extraordinary gift, Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New explores Sonnabend's legendary eye through selected works of art that she presented in her eponymous galleries in Paris and New York.

His extraordinary artistic gifts have attracted the attention of art lovers and news outlets all over the world, and his story has been reported by sources including the New York Times, wsj.com, London Daily Mail, ABC's «20/20» and «Good Morning America, «which in 2013 heralded Pinajian as «the unlikely discovery that has rocked the art world.»

Wrbican states, «The Amiga hardware and Warhol's experiments with it are one small portion of his extraordinary archives, nearly all of which was gifted to the museum from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc..

BAM / PFA is proud to present forty selected Polaroids drawn from an extraordinary gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to the museum.

«The extraordinary gift of this remarkable collection 25 years ago significantly developed the Museum's holdings of European art, and the contribution of European decorative arts, the area of Wendy's particular personal interest, established the institution's collection in that area.

In 2007, the late Dr. William Innes Homer, a noted art historian, agreed to study the collection and was stunned by what he found: an almost bewildering array of extraordinary abstract landscape and figurative paintings by a gifted artist who was completely unknown in his lifetime.

Comprised of several major gifts and purchases — including the private collections of Leo Steinberg, John and Barbara Duncan, and James and Mari Michener, as well as nearly four hundred Old Master drawings acquired as part of the Suida - Manning Collection — the Blanton's collection has an international reputation for its extraordinary works on paper and serves as a resource for art historians and other researchers in the field.

As his photographs extend those rich traditions into the present, it is fitting that The Irving Penn Foundation would mark the centenary of the artist's birth with the extraordinary promised gift of most of the prints in this exhibition to the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.»

To be sure, the Art Institute of Chicago — and the stories we tell — have been made far greater by Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson's gift, an extraordinary benefaction to the city, and, indeed, to the world.

Redefining Rococo celebrates the extraordinary gift of more than 1,350 works of art from the collection of financier J. Pierpont Morgan to the Wadsworth Atheneum 100 years ago.

Almost equally gifted as a poet, prose - writer, and painter, and of the rarest individuality in all three arts, he may be said without exaggeration to have been an extraordinary man.