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The museum, which was locally referred to as the Nelson Art Gallery or simply the Nelson Gallery, was actually two museums until 1983 when it was formally named the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Previously the east wing was called the Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, while the west wing and lobby was called the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. [8]
William Rockhill Nelson (March 7, 1841 – April 13, 1915) was an American real estate developer and co-founder of The Kansas City Star in Kansas City, Missouri. He donated his estate (and home) for the establishment of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He is buried at Mt. Washington Cemetery with his wife, daughter and son-in-law.
The Spencer Art Reference Library (SARL) is a library housed in the Bloch Building of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. Its collection of over 260,000 visual arts related resources support the work of the museum. [1]
Officials with the Kansas City-based art museum said they were eyeing plans for a 61,000-square-foot expansion in the form of one or more additions. KC’s Nelson-Atkins Art Museum eyes $170M ...
In 1931, Sickman joined the staff of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. [3] In 1935, he became the curator of Oriental Art at the museum. His museum curatorial career was interrupted by military service in the Second World War.
Nelson insists they dealt fairly and misled no one: “We still believe the property could be a beautiful sculpture park someday in the future, but there is not, nor has there ever been, a ...
Landing for the San Antonio Museum of Art on the San Antonio River Walk "Museum Reach" extension. In 1985, it received collections of Latin American Folk Art formed by former vice president Nelson A. Rockefeller and Robert K. Winn. [1] The museum is situated on the northern section of the Riverwalk. With the opening of the Gloria Galt River ...
Baily was born on 10 March 1788, at Downend in Gloucestershire, to Martha Hodges (1755–1836) and William Hillier Baily (1763–1834), a woodcutter who specialised in carving ship's figureheads. [1] At the age of fourteen he was placed as an accounts clerk in a mercantile house, where he worked for two years, though he continued to produce wax ...