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William MacLeod Raine (June 22, 1871 – July 25, 1954) was a British-born American novelist who wrote fictional adventure stories about the American Old West. Raine circa 1902. Raine's novel Men in the Raw appeared in The Argosy in 1915. In 1959, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum ...
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.
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College [1] features works by American artists from the 19th through 21st centuries. Randolph College (founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College) has been collecting American art since 1907 and the Maier Museum of Art now houses its collection of several thousand American paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs from the 19th and 21st centuries.
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 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 ...
An art museum houses a permanent collection, whereas a gallery usually hosts a changing program of art exhibitions. However, some university and college art galleries also feature permanent collections or showcase collections owned by the larger institution. Some institutions have a museum or an art gallery, and some have both.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia . Private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the support of specific programs and all acquisition of artwork, as well as additional general support.
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]