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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.
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In the spring of 2006, complete exhibits from the BAC were seen at Texas Tech University, the Untitled [ArtSpace] in Oklahoma City, and the St. Petersburg Arts Center in Florida. In addition, two of the BAC's holdings by William Christenberry were loaned to the Smithsonian American Art Museum for a year-long survey of Mr. Christenberry's career.
It was considered scandalous by the Kansas City Art Institute, and was borrowed by the showman Billy Rose, who hung it in his New York nightclub, the Diamond Horseshoe. It is now held by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Karal Ann Marling, an art historian, says it is "one of the great works of American pornography." [4]
Kansas "Chandalier" Kansas State University, Beach Museum of Art acquired in 1996 [28] Persian Seaform Ceiling, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, 2003 [29] Kentucky. The Spirit of the Maker, Maker's Mark Distillery, Loretto, 2014 [30] Massachusetts. Lime Green Icicle Tower, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2011 [31] [32]
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City bought the painting in 1986. The museum paid $2,500,000, which was a new record for a Benton painting. [2] The painting inspired Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite, a 1974 photograph by Judy Dater. [3]
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