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Cafe in the museum Shuttlecock. The museum was built on the grounds of Oak Hall, the home of Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson (1841–1915). [2] When he died in 1915, his will provided that upon the deaths of his wife and daughter, the proceeds of his entire estate would go to purchasing artwork for public enjoyment.
The Hallmark Photographic Collection was amassed by Hallmark Cards, Inc. and donated to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri in December 2005. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At the time of donation, the collection consisted of 6,500 images by 900 artists, with an estimated value of $65 million.
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 .
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, August, 2013, "About Face: Contemporary Portraiture" Portland Art Museum , Portland, OR, October 2014-January 2015, "Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40"
The Dean: Frank Nelson Wilcox (1887-1964) was an exhibition of over 200 works depicting American scene, Europe, the Northeast Coast, and American west, spanning much of Wilcox's career. [13] [23] The exhibition included works from the Wilcox Estate, and was presented at Wolfs Gallery in Cleveland from September 19 through November 30, 2019.
Ruth Thorne-Thomsen (born 1943 New York City) is an American photographer who resides in Philadelphia. Important collections of her work are held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She was married to the photographer Ray K. Metzker until his death in 2014.
Mark Greenwold is an American painter, born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1942, whose subjects often include figures in psychologically charged domestic interiors, executed with pathologically laborious detail. [1] He began exhibiting in New York in the late 1970s, where he currently lives and works.
Julius Caesar Strauss (July 1857 - 1924), known professionally as J. C. Strauss, [1] was an American photographer who was active in St. Louis, Missouri, at the turn of the 20th century. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a poor Bavarian-born tailor, he left home and sneaked into St. Louis in 1876 and opened a photography studio in 1879. [2]