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Raines was walking on Grand Parade on the sea-front promenade at Eastborne on 24 January 1935 when he collapsed and died before a doctor could be called. [4] He was only a short distance from his home at Avonmore, 24 Granville Road. [note 3] His daughter Florence Harriet was the executor of his will. His estate was valued at just under £400. [6]
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art: Virginia Beach: Virginia Beach: Tidewater/Hampton Roads: Art: Focuses on 20th-century art with changing exhibitions of American & international artists. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Richmond: Richmond: Central: Art: Encyclopedic collection of 33,000 works of art from almost every major world culture
The VMFA has its origins in a 1919 donation of 50 paintings to the Commonwealth of Virginia by Judge John Barton Payne.During the Great Depression, Payne collaborated with Virginia Governor John Garland Pollard to gain funding from the federal Works Projects Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to augment state funding and establish the state art museum in 1932. [7]
The William King Museum of Art (WKMA) is a visual arts and cultural heritage museum located in Abingdon, Virginia. It is housed in a historic 1913 former school building. [1] The William King Museum of Art features galleries showcasing art of the region and of the world, both contemporary and historic.
The Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia announced in 2016 the appointment of the ICA's first chief curator, Stephanie Smith, [9] formerly a chief curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. [10] Lauren Ross was announced as the inaugural curator of the museum in Artnet News. [11]
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum (DWDAM), is a museum dedicated to British and American fine and decorative arts from 1670-1840, located in Williamsburg, Virginia. Situated just outside the historic boundary of Colonial Williamsburg , DWDAM was founded with an initial 1982 [ 2 ] donation by DeWitt Wallace (1889–1981) and his wife ...
The restaurant space at the Wichita Art Museum is about to get a new tenant after 15 years.. Muse Cafe, a Latour-operated restaurant that first opened in the museum in 2007, put on its last ...
The Muscarelle Museum of Art is a university museum affiliated with the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. While the Museum only dates to 1983, the university art collection has been in existence since its first gift – a portrait of the physicist Robert Boyle – in 1732. Most early gifts to William & Mary relate to its ...