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This museum houses artwork by A. E. Backus and other Florida artists. [1] The museum contains the largest public collection of paintings by Backus, [1] a preeminent Florida landscape painter. The A.E. Backus Museum & Gallery, an 8,000 sq. ft. public visual arts facility, was established in 1960 by Backus and a group of local art enthusiasts.
Beanie was mostly self-taught, although he did enjoy two summer stints at the Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1924–25. [12] Backus always earned his living through his artistic talent, first as a commercial artist painting signs, billboards and theater marquees, and later encouraged by Dorothy Binney Palmer, his first true patron, to pursue his landscape paintings as a full-time ...
Fort Pierce, FL: A. E. Backus Museum and Gallery, 2008. DVD. Hambrick, Jack. The Highwaymen: Florida’s Outsider Artists. Harrington Park: Janson Media, 2003. DVD. Hurd, Gordon K. "Alfred Hair (1941-1970) - A charismatic businessman who created a movement for Florida’s black artists." The New York Times "Overlooked" Series, 2019.
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Art museums and galleries established in 1960" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
H.E.A.R.T.S. Veterans Museum of Texas Huntsville Walker [150] Sam Houston Memorial Museum Huntsville Walker Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Place [151] Samuel Walker Houston Museum and Cultural Center Huntsville: Walker: Both Samuel Walker Houston and his father Joshua Houston were enslaved people owned by Sam ...
Alfred Warner Hair was born 20 May 1941 in Fort Pierce, Florida, one of seven children of Samuel and Annie Mae Hair. [2] Hair graduated from Lincoln Park Academy in 1961, and attended one year at community college before dropping out to pursue his career as an artist.
20th Century Technology Museum. The list of museums in the Texas Gulf Coast encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, located in the River Oaks community in Houston, Texas, United States, is a 14-acre (57,000 m 2) facility of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) that houses a collection of decorative art, paintings and furniture. [2] Bayou Bend is the former home of Houston philanthropist Ima Hogg.