Sentences with phrase «fractional gift»
A fractional gift refers to giving a small portion or share of something as a gift, instead of giving the whole thing. Full definition
Leo Valledor, Skeedo, 1965; collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund and purchase, by exchange, through fractional gifts of Elaine McKeon and Shirley Ross Davis and, by exchange, through a gift of Forrest Engelhart; © Estate of Leo Valledor
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Jeff Koons Three Ball 50/50 Tank, 1985 Glass, painted steel, water, plastic, and three basketballs The Museum of Modern Art, New York Fractional gift of Werner and Elaine Dannheisser, 1991 Photo credit: E. Costa
The Blue Door, 1973 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas; 84 × 42 inches Collection of SMoCA, Combined fractional gift and bequest of Dorothy Lincoln - Smith and Harvey K. Smith 2002.004 © Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Photo: Tim Lanterman
In December 1997, SFMOMA received an unprecedented fractional gift of approximately 250 works from the collection of Bay Area residents Vicki and Kent Logan, one of the most exciting and important collections of contemporary art being formed in the United States today.
«We have more fractional gifts than any other museum in the country, even MOMA,» Benezra said.
SFMOMA has given him more space than any other artist in «Into a New Museum,» and it has acquired (primarily as fractional gifts of Doris and Donald Fisher) important, classic, early work.
Gerhard Richter, Reiseburo (Tourist Office), 1966; collection SFMOMA, fractional gift of Vicki and Kent Logan
Dorothea Tanning, Self - Portrait, 1944; collection SFMOMA, purchase, by exchange, through a fractional gift of Shirley Ross Davis; © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild - Kunst, Bonn; photo: Katherine Du Tiel
Fractional gift of Charles Cowles, 1972
Fractional gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller.
Gift of Pamela K. and William A. Royall, Jr. in celebration of VMFA's 75th anniversary (fractional gift).
Under the terms of a fractional gift, the collectors are allowed to keep the works for a portion of each year.
Directly in front of you when you cross SFMOMA's signature atrium - spanning bridge is «Virgin Mary,» a 1993 cast bronze sculpture with silver inlay by Kiki Smith, a fractional gift of Vicki and Kent Logan, who recently gave SFMOMA 250 works of contemporary art.
The other acquisitions announced yesterday, fractional gifts of Bay Area collectors Kent and Vicki Logan, include a wax sculpture of face - to - face heads by Bruce Nauman and pictures by South African Marlene Dumas and Chinese painters Fang Lijun and Liu Wei.
The whole issue of acquisitions became newly problematic last year with a change in tax law that no longer permits donors to make «fractional gifts.»
858 - 1 Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Picture), 1999 Oil on aluminum 50 x 72 cm Collection SFMOMA, promised and fractional gift
(182.8 x 137.1 cm); Collection of Helen and Charles Schwab, fractional gift to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NYensed by VAGA, New York, NY 011.
(182.8 x 137.1 cm); Collection of Helen and Charles Schwab, fractional gift to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; © Jasper Johns / Licensed
That beautiful Modigliani and steamy Balthus - as well as a late Rene Magritte, the first work by the Belgian surrealist to enter the collection - are fractional gifts of Shirley Davis and her late husband Thomas.
Both Fishers have served on the board of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and several important pieces they own figure as «fractional gifts» to the museum, essentially a time - share arrangement that gives the donors a tax benefit and the institution access to the work.