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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.
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 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 ...
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]
William & Mary affiliated with the Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health, later renamed the Richmond Professional Institute, in 1925. The core campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, the institute's independent successor, comprises property purchased by Chandler and the Richmond division's director, H. H. Hibbs, between 1925 and ...
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.