Sentences with phrase «museum benefactor»

Most of these colorful portraits and landscape scenes are gifts from the pioneering folk art collectors Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, sister of Chrysler Museum benefactor Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., and her husband, Col. Edgar William Garbisch.

The school's cofounder, Colby Museum benefactor Willard Cummings, introduced the artist to Colby in the 1950s, and Katz has continued his relationship with the College while a longtime summer resident of Lincolnville, Maine.

Despite curator Helen Molesworth's instrumental involvement in the triumphal Kerry James Marshall show that opened at MOCA last week and other recent shows by Kahlil Joseph, Mickalene Thomas and Noah Davis» Underground Museum, MOCA's recent announcement that this year's annual gala will celebrate Jeff Koons (a museum benefactor) strikes a bum note.

All of the paintings in the exhibition are on loan from the collection of Preston H. Haskell III, Princeton class of 1960, a longstanding Museum benefactor and former chair of its Advisory Council.

Free admission for the first four years is made possible by two gifts received over the summer from longtime Hammer Museum benefactors Erika J. Glazer and Brenda R. Potter.

Free admission is made possible through the generosity of longtime Hammer Museum benefactors Erika J. Glazer and Brenda R. Potter.

The new bounty of promised gifts represents ongoing collaboration among SFMOMA director Neal Benezra, curators Gary Garrels and Sandra Phillips and a Collections Campaign Committee initially led by long - time museum benefactors Helen Schwab and Robin Wright.

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Located inside Gasoline Alley Museum is the Founders» Lounge, named in honour of the generous benefactors of Heritage Park Historical Village.

And it's not just the garden staff that spoils them; they have many benefactors on the museum staff that randomly drop off presents for them too.»

Bronx Museum Members at the Benefactor Level and above enjoy two complimentary tickets to select major Art Fairs in New York City and private tours led by Director of Curatorial Programs Sergio Bessa, or other art experts.

A decades - long effort by benefactor Raymond D. Nasher and others resulted in the building of a new art museum worthy of Duke's superior rank among the nation's universities.

We know Alex Katz as a painter and summer resident of Maine, and longtime benefactor of the Colby College Museum of Art.

The generous support that The Baltimore Museum of Art receives from its many friends and benefactors allows it to continue its mission to inspire creativity, encourage learning, and foster human understanding.

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The Museum's Collection Tours give Friend, Benefactor and Collector's Circle Members a unique opportunity to view the private renowned collections of contemporary art collectors in NYC and beyond.

The free admission and operations of the Walters Art Museum are made possible by the combined generosity of individual members, friends and benefactors, foundations, corporations, and grants from the City of Baltimore, Maryland State Arts Council, Citizens of Baltimore County, and Howard County and the Howard County Arts Council.

Many of the museum's earliest benefactors — Benjamin Altman; J. P. Morgan; H. O. Havemeyer and his wife, Louisine; and Abby Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller Jr. — helped form the foundation of its Asian art collection.

At that time, and largely due to the foresight of Gallery benefactor A. Conger Goodyear - who donated more than two hundred and fifty works over the course of nearly four decades and who, in 1929, went on to become the first board president of The Museum of Modern Art in New York - the institution began to acquire significant works by innovative artists.

The support of Phyllis Wattis, the SFMOMA benefactor honored by the exhibition, enabled the museum to acquire all three works pictured here along with eleven others directly from the artist in 1998.

Described as «the quiet billionaire» (P. Sabatini, «Henry Hillman: Billionaire financier avoided spotlight but was one of the city's most generous benefactors,» Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 15, 2017, via http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2017/04/14/Philanthropist-Henry-Hillman-dies/stories/201704140181, [accessed 1/12/2018]-RRB-, Hillman became a supporter of many high profile projects including the Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art, in addition to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Hillman Cancer Center, the University of Pittsburgh's Hillman Library and the Hillman Center for Future - Generation Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University.

The Toledo Museum's chief benefactor was Edward Drummond Libbey (1854 — 1925), an industrialist whose fortune was made in glassware.

Peter Lunder ’56 and Paula Lunder, longtime benefactors of Colby College, promised their collection of more than 500 works of art to the Colby College Museum of Art in 2007, inspiring the addition of the Alfond - Lunder Family Pavilion.

Oct. 20, 2017: Hosting a tour of «Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence,» SCAD Museum of Art Head Curator Storm Janse van Rensburg (left) and Walter O. Evans, collector, SCAD benefactor, and president of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, stand before «The Card Game» by Lawrence and a bust of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence by Augusta Savage.

The piece has been acquired for the collection in honour of Henry W. Bloch, chair emeritus of the museum's board of trustees and a major benefactor.

Emin, who was present at the auction, had said that she hoped that the work would be bought by a benefactor who would donate it to a museum and that it would be kept on public display.

The new additions represent the dedication to the culture of New Orleans and diverse artistic passions of the museum's benefactors, who include individuals new to the museum as well as those who have previously given transformative gifts.

The Morgan Library & Museum began as the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan, one of the preeminent collectors and cultural benefactors in the United States.

The exhibition, conceived by Director Emeritus John Bullard and trustee Anne Milling and on view from November 13, 2011 through January 22, 2012, reaffirms the museum's commitment to collecting outstanding works and highlights the dedicated support of the museum's benefactors.

Benefits: All EDUCATION BENEFACTOR benefits, plus recognition on Museum's Major Donor Wall, invitations to Annual Director's Circle Dinner, opportunity for artist's studio visit, and special events.

He was a «benefactor» at the New Museum and on the board of overseers at the Hammer in Los Angeles.

Generous support has also been provided by the Steinhauer Charitable Trust; the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission with additional funds from the Madison Community Foundation and the Overture Foundation; the Terry Family Foundation; The Art League of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; the Exhibition Initiative Fund; the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art's 2003 - 2004 Sustaining Benefactors; and a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.

Generous funding for this exhibition has been provided by the Madison Print Club; McGrath Associates; a grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council, with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities; The Art League of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; the Exhibition Initiative Fund; the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art's 2003 - 2004 Sustaining Benefactors; and a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.

Check it out: New York's MOMA board president Agnes Gund; Tokyo's Toshio Hara, who has his own museum; artists Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman, Luciano Fabro and Jeff Koons; art benefactors Bagley and Jinny Wright of Seattle; New York art collector Jan Cowles and her son, gallery owner Charles; Ashton Hawkins of New York's Metropolitan Museum; and Doris Amman, sister of the late art dealer Thomas Amman of Zmuseum; artists Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman, Luciano Fabro and Jeff Koons; art benefactors Bagley and Jinny Wright of Seattle; New York art collector Jan Cowles and her son, gallery owner Charles; Ashton Hawkins of New York's Metropolitan Museum; and Doris Amman, sister of the late art dealer Thomas Amman of ZMuseum; and Doris Amman, sister of the late art dealer Thomas Amman of Zurich.

On the side of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the acquisition is supported by the Tijl Aankoop Fonds and a private benefactor, with the Bankgiro Lotterij supporting MOTI.

On Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 7 pm, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) Young Benefactors and University of Utah Department of Art and Art History will host artist Chakaia Booker for a free public talk in the UMFA Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke Jr..

In fall of 2009, the UMFA Young Benefactors ---- an affinity donor group that supports the museum's contemporary art programs ---- selected one of Booker's sculptures, Discarded Memories, as their annual purchase for the UMFA's growing collection of contemporary art.

The domestic travel program is open to Fine Arts Museums donors at the Benefactor level and higher.

«The best possible result is that an amazing benefactor buys it and then donates it to a museum,» she said on the eve of the sale.

She was vice-chairwoman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as a generous benefactor and board member of numerous museums in this country.

A prime mover in that development and one of the Museum's most important benefactors, the late Gordon Lambert, is remembered in Robert Ballagh's Portrait of Gordon Lambert, which is shown alongside two other works by the same artist, also commissioned by Gordon Lambert.

San Diego, CA — On Thursday, January 31, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) will offer free admission in honor of David Copley, the organization's late board president and a long - time benefactor whose birthday falls on that day.

This is the sixth consecutive year that PAMM has been the fair's exclusive VIP Preview benefactor and Art Miami LLC has already donated more than $ 150,000 to further the museum's collection and mission.

They became loyal benefactors of institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, donating works in addition to providing financial support.

In addition to these French masters (and here, in this context, I include Van Gogh as French), there was a generous selection of works from the collection of Sydney and Frances Lewis — two of Richmond's venerated benefactors whose artistic contribution to the Museum is undeniable.

But the Los Angeles County Museum of Art already has acquired the largest work on view, «Band» (2007), though a gift of its benefactor Eli Broad, so a component of the show will end up on the West Coast.

The Andersons are prominent benefactors of Bay Area museums.

The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright - Knox Art Gallery will feature eighty iconic works by more than seventy - five artists from the late nineteenth century to the present, highlighting the history of the Albright - Knox Art Gallery's extraordinary Collection, and the benefactors and museum professionals who made it possible.

Under that arrangement, benefactors could deduct from their taxes a portion of an artwork's fair market value in return for sharing it with a museum, on the promise of its ultimate donation.

Exhibitions in the Brown Foundation Gallery at CAMH have been made possible by the patrons, benefactors and donors to the Museum's Major Exhibition Fund: Major Patron — Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen, Fayez Sarofim, and Michael Zilkha.

Exhibitions in the Brown Foundation Gallery at CAMH have been made possible by the patrons, benefactors and donors to the Museum's Major Exhibition Fund: Major Patron - Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen, Fayez Sarofim, and Michael Zilkha.