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The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. [1] The permanent collection has over 15,000 objects. Admission is free and open to the public. [2] The Smart Museum and the adjacent Cochrane-Woods Art Center were designed by the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. [3]
They endowed the Smart Museum of Art. He died on October 15, 1952, in Chicago, Illinois. Siblings Alfred Smart (1895–1951) He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on 17 June 1894 and attended the University of Illinois. After World War I, he joined his brother in Publishing Enterprises. He was secretary and treasurer until 1947 when he was appointed ...
Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop; the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, and Adler Planetarium in the Near ...
8. Smart Museum. The Smart Museum, named after Esquire magazine founders David and Alfred Smart, is an art museum with a focus on complex issues and diverse ideas. It is part of the University of ...
Alison "Ali" Gass is an American curator and museum director. She is the founding director of the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. [1] She has served as the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art San José, [2] Smart Museum of Art, [3] and chief curator of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.
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In September 1997, Alsdorf gave 400 works of Asian art to the Art Institute of Chicago, of which she was a trustee. [6] [7] She also donated to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago [8] and the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art. [1]
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Sue Taylor, Richard A. Born, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art: a guide to the Collection, 1990, p. 109; Ian Chilvers, John Glaves-Smith, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2009, p. 458; John Ives Sewall, A history of Western art, 1961 p. 887