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[15] [16] The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930; [17] at this time architect Noel L. Miller was converting three row houses on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village—one of which, 8 West 8th Street had been the location of the Studio Club—to be the museum's home, as well as a residence for Whitney. [18] The new museum opened ...
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In 1929, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art rejected Whitney's offer of the gift of nearly 500 new artworks that she had collected, Whitney established the Whitney Museum of American Art. [12] In 1931, she had architect Auguste L. Noel of the firm of Noel & Miller convert the three row houses at 8–12 West 8th Street into a gallery and ...
Adam D. Weinberg is an art museum curator. [1] He was the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art for 20 years, from October 1, 2003 to ...
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The Palo Alto Art Center was originally named the Palo Alto Community Cultural Center when it was founded in 1971. [2] Hayward Ellis King served as a consultant curator in 1972. [3] The building which occupies Palo Alto Art Center was built in 1953 by architect Leslie Nichols and used to be the location for Palo Alto's City Hall. [4]
945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection.
The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), with help from the city of Palo Alto funded Brown's 1970s murals. [4] The first Palo Alto mural by Brown was created in 1975. [4] The trompe-l'œil murals "Palo Alto Pedestrian Series" located in downtown Palo Alto feature imagery such as aliens, burglars, animals, and normal people. [4]