Sentences with phrase «major bequest»

Following a major bequest of modern French art in 1916, including many important impressionist paintings, it formally took on the remit for international modern art the following year.

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and The San Diego Museum of Art are both the recipients of a major bequest valued at more than $ 40 million from the late Dr. Vance E. Kondon and his wife Elisabeth Giesberger.

Most recently, in 2013, a major bequest from Houston architect and Menil Trustee William F. Stern added notable drawings by Mel Bochner, Donald Judd, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Richard Tuttle, and others to the MDI, as well as an endowment for acquisitions of modern and contemporary drawing.

The Louis D. Kacalieff Visiting Artists and Scholars Program is endowed through a major bequest left by former board member Louis Kacalieff.

• 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 prize is one aspect of an ambitious programme for 2016 that includes a new 6,000 sq m riverside public garden; a retrospective of photographs by Martin Parr; and a display of works to be included in a major bequest by the collector Tim Sayer.

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This major bequest from the late collector and philanthropist Daniel W. Dietrich II includes significant modern and post-war works by the likes of Philip Guston, Edward Hopper, Cy Twombly, and Agnes Martin, along with a $ 10 million endowment gift to support the museum's contemporary programmes.

Not exact matches

A major gift to the Ontario SPCA can take many forms: from a one - time donation to a gift of stock; to an endowment; to a bequest.

One stroll, for instance, could take in Downtown where attractions include the Museum of Fine Arts, the prestigious McGill University (founded from a bequest by a Glasgow - born fur trader), Sainte - Catherine Street for the major department stores (at Ogilvy's a bagpiper still plays every day at noon) and the Golden Square Mile with its fine Victorian homes which were once home to the country's Anglophone, predominantly Scottish, upper class.

Streisand's bequest is the latest in a series of major acquisitions secured by the gallery to mark its 50th anniversary.

Included alongside such signature artworks as Sigmar Polke's Mrs. Autumn and Her Two Daughters (1991) are major acquisitions on view here for the first time, including Ericka Beckman's You The Better, Film Installation (1983/2015), Adrian Piper's The Mythic Being: Sol's Drawing # 1 — 5 (1974), and Renée Green's Bequest (1991), among other featured pieces...

Bought for the nation by the Chantrey Bequest in 1930, and in the possession of Tate Britain, where it was on display in February this year for the first time in 30 years, but for only about a week, prior to its going to Manchester Art Gallery, where it is currently on show as part of a major retrospective exhibition of the work of Annie Swynnerton, the first woman to be elected an associate of the Royal Academy.

Washington, DC --(Updated: July 28, 2016) The National Gallery of Art announces a major promised bequest of 250 objects from the Virginia Dwan Collection, including distinguished works by renowned artists Robert Smithson, Yves Klein, Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Walter De Maria, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Sol LeWitt, Fred Sandback, Michael Heizer, and Jean Tinguely, among others.

The Contemporary Art Society has been undertaking a major research project in which it has been digitising its rich history of acquisitions, bequests and gifts.

Marshall and Helen Hatch became major collectors, and their 2009 bequest to the museum brings several works to public view for the first time.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is receiving what director Timothy Rub characterized as a «transformational» bequest - including a major late painting by Edward Hopper - from the estate of collector Daniel W. Dietrich II, a Chester County resident who died last year.

A new installation of 20th - century art in the museum's permanent collection is anchored by a bequest from Louise and Alvin J. Myerberg, T» 47, and includes 15 works by major artists, including Charles Burchfield, Anthony Caro, Thomas Hart Benton, Fernand Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, Jacques Lipchitz and Andrew Wyeth.

His father had earlier paid for an extension to house the major part of the Turner Bequest, which in 1987 was transferred to a wing paid for by Sir Charles Clore.

A few years later, Tate's renowned Turner Bequest was a major influence on Rothko's decision to donate nine of his Seagram murals to the Collection.