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La Grande Vitesse, a public sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is located on the large concrete plaza surrounding City Hall and the Kent County Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Popularly referred to as simply "the Calder", since its installation in 1969 it has come to be a symbol of Grand Rapids, and an abstraction ...
The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) is an art museum located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, with collections ranging from Renaissance to Modern Art and special collections on 19th and 20th-century European and American art. Its holdings include notable modern art works such as Richard Diebenkorn’s 1963 Ingleside. The museum has in ...
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Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a 158-acre (64 ha) botanical garden, art museum, [3] and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1995, Meijer Gardens quickly established itself in the Midwest as a major cultural attraction jointly focused on horticulture and sculpture. [4]
By 1904, he had joined the pioneering Society of Western Artists, one of the era's most influential art organizations. And, in 1916, he was invited to become a member of the National Arts Club in New York. In addition, Alten was a longtime member of Detroit's prestigious Scarab Club, in which he was awarded a gold medal for his art in 1920. [5]
GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2010; A Time to Heal, Gerald R. Ford, Harper & Row, ISBN 978-0060112974, p432; Artists of Grand Rapids 1840–1980 - J. Gray Sweeney, Grand Rapids Art Museum; Artists in Michigan – 1900–1976, Wayne State University Press
November 17, 1915 - Reynold Henry Weidenaar was born to Dirk Weidenaar and Effie Kuiper Weidenaar in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1927 - He and his mother Effie and sister Jeanne begin to spell their last name Weidener (see Grand Rapids City Directory 1927).
The collection contains over 90 cars housed in a 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m 2) garage, [1] most of which are from the Art Deco era and the Great Depression. [4] The collection focuses mostly on American cars, including former makes such as Auburn , Cord , Duesenberg , Oldsmobile , Pontiac , and Packard in addition to cars built by Cadillac ...