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Alice Edith Rumph (1878–1978) was a painter of watercolors and pastels, an etcher, and an art teacher. Rumph co-founded the Birmingham Art Club, which established the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama. [1] She served as the club's founding vice president and later as its president. [2]
The Birmingham Museum of Art is owned by the City of Birmingham and encompasses 3.9 acres (16,000 m 2) in the city's cultural district. Erected in 1959, the present building was designed by architects Warren, Knight & Davis , and a major renovation and expansion by Edward Larrabee Barnes of New York was completed in 1993.
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art , ceramics , metalwork , jewellery , natural history , archaeology , ethnography , local history and industrial history .
Birmingham Art Club (1908), Birmingham, Alabama [4] Dr. Arthur M. Brown Residence (1908), 319-4th Terrace, Birmingham, Alabama; demolished [4]
In 1899 Douglass moved to Birmingham, working as an artist and art teacher. She supported herself in part by painting china and place cards. [6] From 1901 to 1908 she had a studio in the Watts Building. [3] In 1908 she formed the Birmingham Art Club with seven other female artists, who included Delia Dryer, Hannah Elliot, and Carrie Hill. [6]
The Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center (ASC) is a performing arts facility located on the campus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). It hosts over 250,000 people for more than 300 diverse events annually. The ASC is the center for entertainment and arts education in Birmingham and Central Alabama. The facility houses ...
Birmingham has one of the largest collections of Pre-Raphaelite art in the world at The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. The Ikon Gallery is housed in a neo-Gothic former school in Brindleyplace and showcases modern art. Number 9 The Gallery is close by. The Halcyon Gallery is located inside the International Convention Centre.
The genesis of the Birmingham Arts Laboratory can be traced to a meeting on 8 September 1968, of five figures (Mark Williams, Fred Smith, Dave Cassidy, Tony Jones and Bob Sheldon) from the Midlands Arts Centre, who had been promoting avant garde music performances at the centre's outdoor auditorium and had been involved in Mike Leigh's experiments in improvised theatre, but had become ...