Sentences with phrase «significant art purchases»

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Although Erling Kagge purchased his first artwork 32 years ago, it is mainly in the course of the past 15 years that his art collection has taken form, expanded and become one of Norway's most significant private collections of international contemporary art.

The Museum's collection includes works of art donated to the Museum or purchased for the Museum since its inception as well as historically significant, museum - quality works dating back to early donations of art made to the City of Scottsdale since 1967.

And the acquisition of Luo Jianwu's Rock like a Cloud became our first significant purchase of contemporary Chinese art.

The combined gift and purchase is among the most significant for the High's folk and self - taught art department, which was established in 1994.

Valeria Napoleone XX Contemporary Art Society is a joint initiative of philanthropist Valeria Napoleone and the Contemporary Art Society to purchase and donate a significant work by a living female artist to a UK museum each year.

Many other controversial purchases have followed, and Walton has been accused of using her immense wealth to mine struggling institutions for significant works to fill the walls of her Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Since 1995, when the Fine Arts Gallery was rededicated the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the Collection has developed considerably through a program of selected donations and the purchase of significant works of contemporary art produced by Canadian and international artisArt Gallery, the Collection has developed considerably through a program of selected donations and the purchase of significant works of contemporary art produced by Canadian and international artisart produced by Canadian and international artists.

The Museum created the $ 1 million Fund in its Centennial year, 2014, with monies restricted to purchasing works of art and sought artworks that would make a significant impact on audiences, raise the Museum's profile in the realm of contemporary art, and complement its historical collections, thus setting the Museum on a rising trajectory at the start of a new century.

While the Fund provides significant purchasing power, Tate Director Nicholas Serota emphasized that the support of the entire art community's plays a key role.

Other significant acquisitions and gifts of South and Southeast Asian art over the past few decades have included a Leti mouth mask, a Mentawaian sacred carving (jaraik), and a male Batak figure, all purchased by The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc.; an Iban mask, gift of Albert and Elissa Yellin; and a figurative Timor door, gift of Diane Ansberry Rahardja and Andyan Rahardja and Family in honor of Louise Steinman Ansberart over the past few decades have included a Leti mouth mask, a Mentawaian sacred carving (jaraik), and a male Batak figure, all purchased by The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc.; an Iban mask, gift of Albert and Elissa Yellin; and a figurative Timor door, gift of Diane Ansberry Rahardja and Andyan Rahardja and Family in honor of Louise Steinman AnsberArt Fund, Inc.; an Iban mask, gift of Albert and Elissa Yellin; and a figurative Timor door, gift of Diane Ansberry Rahardja and Andyan Rahardja and Family in honor of Louise Steinman Ansberry.

A joint initiative by the Contemporary Art Society and philanthropist Valeria Napoleone (VNXXCAS) has been established to purchase and donate a significant work by a living female artist to a UK museum each year.

He often purchased works directly from American artists whom he knew personally, thus setting the foundation for the Corcoran Gallery of Art's reputation as one of the most significant repositories of art of the United StatArt's reputation as one of the most significant repositories of art of the United Statart of the United States.

Milton Avery Little Fox River, 1942 - 43 Oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches Permanent Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College, State University of New York; Gift of Roy R. Neuberger This exhibition examines the contributions of Milton Avery as a significant figurative painter from the late 1920s through the early 1960s.

In 1855, a bequest by the Basel art dealer Samuel Birrmann (1793 - 1843) established a significant fund to purchase contemporary Swiss art, an early acquisition of which was a large group of paintings by the Basel artist Arnold Bocklin (1827 - 1901)- who was, along with Ferdinand Hodler (1853 - 1918), the greatest Swiss painter of the 19th century.

The Museum has purchased artwork from many of the student art exhibitions held in the ArtWorks Gallery, forming a significant student art collection that spans over 25 years of creative expressions by young artists.

According to the Times Colonist, «Giant's Castle Mountain» is the artist's most significant depiction of British Columbia and was purchased in March for $ 44,000 from Uno Langmann Fine Art Ltd..

With the purchase in 1986 of a significant work by Picasso, Wexner began a partnership with the art dealer Richard Gray, and since then, the Wexners purposefully began to look more intently at earlier modern masters, primarily collecting the exemplary work of Picasso, Giacometti, and Dubuffet.