Sentences with phrase «important gifts of art»

His bequest in 1979 together with her bequest in 1993 are among the Fine Arts Museums» single most important gifts of art.

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Given to him as a gift by his wife, actress Joanne Woodward, these Daytonas are set apart by subtle but important differences, such as an art - deco font for the numerals on the subdials and small squares at the end of the hash marks.

Most important, it will serve as a reminder that many of the brightest and most gifted young painters working today have chosen this tradition, among all available options, to help define the future of visual arts.»

Through the generous gift of SCAD Savannah Board of Visitors member Dr. Walter Evans and his wife Linda, the SCAD Museum of Art is now home to more than 60 important works of art by renowned African American artists such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Scott Duncanson, Richard Hunt and Jacob LawrenArt is now home to more than 60 important works of art by renowned African American artists such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Scott Duncanson, Richard Hunt and Jacob Lawrenart by renowned African American artists such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Scott Duncanson, Richard Hunt and Jacob Lawrence.

Many thanks to Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting for their incredible gift to Painters with their «Gorky's Granddaughter» documentary art project, where they visit studios and talk to a wide range of important artists.

In a recent interview for Art Monthly, Benglis relished the analogy of the gift to describe her sculpture, although she warned that «the gift notion is important but there has to be equality between the gift and the giver.»

Washington, DC — In celebration of a remarkable promised gift of 34 important contemporary photographs from the collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, a special exhibition will be presented in the reopened East Building galleries at the National Gallery of Art.

So strong in Ashcan, American Impressionism, and other styles, this addition joins gifts by other collectors from Virginia, including the Cochranes, that have made the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts one of the most important centers for the study and appreciation of American art in all its richness and complexity.»

And many works from the collection have been donated as gifts or promised gifts to important institutions, including MoMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin; Tate in London; and in Venezuela, the Museo de la Estampa y del Diseño Carlos Cruz - Diez; Fundación Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; Centro de Arte Maracaibo «Lia Bermudez»; Museo de Barquisimeto; Fundación Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo del Zulia; Universidad Católica Santa Rosa; and Universidad Monte Ávila.

Seven exhibitions will demonstrate the strength and breadth of the museum's collection and offer new perspectives on the renowned Lunder Collection, one of the most important private collections of American art ever assembled, which was recently gifted to the museum.

«This gift dovetails remarkably well with our existing collection — essentially adding strength on strength to one of the most distinctive and important collections of its kind,» said Rand Suffolk, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., director of the High Museum of Art.

Menschel, Robert B. Long time collector of important photographs, Robert B. Menschel» 55, H» 91, made a significant gift to the University Art Collection, including work by Eugene Atget, Imogen Cunningham, and Aaron Siskind.

Endless Summer features works from an important gift from the estates of Walter Netsch and Dawn Clark Netsch in 2014, which drastically improves our representation of this fertile chapter in art.

The Contemporary Art Society has a history of placing important works by most of the most significant artists of the twentieth century in national and regional public galleries in the UK for the first time — from Picasso to Hirst — continuing today with recent gifts of works for example, by current Turner Prize nominees Luke Fowler and Elizabeth Price (see «Recent Gifts Currently Showing» begifts of works for example, by current Turner Prize nominees Luke Fowler and Elizabeth Price (see «Recent Gifts Currently Showing» beGifts Currently Showing» below).

• Richard Deacon's Restless 2005, a gift from the artist • Arthur Hughes's (1832 — 1915) Elaine with the Armour of Launcelot c. 1867 and The Singer c. 1866, a major bequest • Cecil Gordon Lawson's The Hop - Gardens of England 1874 • the bequest of Nimai Chatterji's important archive of 20th century documents and publications • the donation of a group of works by Don McCullin from Eric and Louise Franck • 58 photographs by Lewis Baltz, San Quentin Point 1982 acquired with funds from PAC • Olga Chernysheva's On Duty 2007, presented by VTB Capital 2011 • Hala Elkoussy's On red nails, palm trees and other icons — Al Archief (Take 2) 2009, with funds from MENAAC • Susan Hiller's Dedicated to the unknown Artists 1972 - 6, with assistance from the Art Fund • Works by Martin Creed, Jeff Koons and Robert Mapplethorpe were added this year to the ARTIST ROOMS collection.

The gift is one of the most important donations to the Contemporary Art Society in our 103 year history and totals over # 4 million.

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.

Irma Weiss is a member of the Peter Cooper Heritage Society, having contributed more than $ 1 million to the college in her lifetime, and the funder of two important student gifts — The Irma Giustino Weiss Prize, which permits the top graduating artist or architect to enrich their studies as they embark on a career, and the Irma Giustino Weiss Cultural Enrichment Fellowship, which provides cultural opportunities in New York City to art and architecture students.

According to Director / CEO and Chief Curator, Terry Graff: «The generous gift of this major public sculpture from Mr. Karpman at this pivotal time in the history of the Gallery is a statement - making expression of our exhilarating trajectory — a most fitting symbol of our expansion and revitalization as an important destination for national and international contemporary art.

Watson facilitated the acquisition of a number of remarkable European paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts, such as a late French Gothic sculpture of the Virgin and Child; an exquisite Sienese cassone (wedding chest) depicting the death of Lucretia; an important Italian Renaissance altarpiece by Bartolomeo di Giovanni; a richly iconographic 17th - century Dutch vanitas painting; and a majestic Neoclassical landscape by French master Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, among other major gifts and purchases.

Dasha Shenkman (2005) A long - standing patron and supporter of the Contemporary Art Society, Dasha Shenkman has gifted a number of important works to the Society, including Litho by Jean Arp (gifted to Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford), four etchings by Frank Auerbach (gifted to Swindon Art Gallery) and Spoon to Spoon II by Bruce McClean (gifted to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that it had received a major gift of 20th - century works by African - American artists from the South, including 10 pieces by Thornton Dial and 20 important quilts made by the Gee's Bend quilters of Alabama.

I wanted to show how important this milestone was to me as an artist and chose to gift two paintings to the Arts Council: Collection — Bones of Time (2013) and James (2016).»

Sol LeWitt, 2 Part Composite, 1971 Serigraph edition 59/60 Collection Albright - Knox Art Gallery Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1972 August 7, 2010 — February 27, 2011 Although wall drawings represent the foundation of his practice, Sol LeWitt's works on paper, sculptures, artist's books, and writings on Conceptual art were equally important to his oeuvArt Gallery Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1972 August 7, 2010 — February 27, 2011 Although wall drawings represent the foundation of his practice, Sol LeWitt's works on paper, sculptures, artist's books, and writings on Conceptual art were equally important to his oeuvart were equally important to his oeuvre.

A gift to the Fine Arts Museums supports groundbreaking exhibitions, provides resources for teachers and students, sustains public programs, and protects a permanent collection that is one of San Francisco's most important cultural legacies.

In addition to important pieces of Asian, African, Oceanic and Native American art, already areas of depth in SAM's holdings, the gifts encompass modern and contemporary artworks that any museum in America would covet, such as Richard Serra's colossal five - part «Wake» (2004), a 1926 bronze «Bird in Space» by Constantin Brancusi, Jasper Johns» «Thermometer» (1959) and John Singleton Copley's 1770s portrait of «Sylvester Gardiner.»

The gift includes 49 works from the 1960s - one of the most important phases of Reed's career - and it instantly transforms the Oklahoma City Museum of Art into the definitive collection of Reed's work.

It is vitally important that the Contemporary Art Society is able to display works that have come to us as generous gifts and bequests — both to encourage further gifts from our networks of supporters, which are crucial to the ongoing development of public collections in this country, as well as to fulfil the wish of philanthropists such as Dr. Lande that their private art collections are enjoyed by public audiences.&raqArt Society is able to display works that have come to us as generous gifts and bequests — both to encourage further gifts from our networks of supporters, which are crucial to the ongoing development of public collections in this country, as well as to fulfil the wish of philanthropists such as Dr. Lande that their private art collections are enjoyed by public audiences.&raqart collections are enjoyed by public audiences.»

House of Voltaire offers an unprecedented opportunity to purchase works and gift items for the forthcoming festive period, while supporting one of London's most important independent arts spaces.

«Speaking for myself, it was only when I saw that big show of Louise Bourgeois that I really understood her work and realised how important she was,» says the art dealer and philanthropist Anthony d'Offay, whose huge gift of contemporary masterpieces to Britain is the basis of the Artist Rooms collection, run by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland for the nation.

Another new exhibition running until May 2005, this celebrates Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler's gift to Tate of works of art by important modern international artists including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris and André Masson.

One of the greatest gifts a museum can supply a visitor is a free ticket to view important art works from around the world.

The Gund Gallery Collection is made up of works collected by the college over its history and was seeded by a recent gift of 80 works of important contemporary art generously donated by Mr. and Mrs. Graham and Ann Gund.

Still's resolute refusal to «explain» his work, for example, has frequently been interpreted as uncommunicativeness, although it could be argued that no other artist in recent times has been more concerned about communication; one need only look at Still's recent and important gift of 28 paintings, spanning 40 years of his career, to the newly redesignated San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

A recently donated collection of over 300 important modern and contemporary artworks given by the collectors Eric and Jean Cass to the Contemporary Art Society for gifting to museums, including works by Karel Appel, Michael Craig - Martin, Barbara Hepworth, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, Victor Pasmore, Pablo Picasso and Niki de Saint - Phalle will be exhibited at the CAS.