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Along with the collection, the museum also maintains a schedule of self-organized and traveling exhibitions. Each year, the museum presents 10–12 special exhibitions in its galleries. The museum opened in 1994 with an exhibition of rare early series of 28 watercolors by Georgia O'Keeffe, known as the "Canyon Suite" (1916–1918), that had ...
This was a professional and personal coup for Sickman: his reputation as a scholar and the collection he had built at the Nelson Gallery made Kansas City one of only four cities the exhibition would visit, after Paris, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. [14] Laurence Sickman retired on January 31, 1977, and was named Director Emeritus and advisor to ...
Frommer's cited the Nerman Museum as a significant cultural attraction when they listed Kansas City as one of their top 10 world travel destinations for 2012. [2]In April 2006, Public Art Review magazine named JCCC one of the top 10 university/college campuses for public art in America, citing the outdoor sculpture and the paintings, ceramics, photography and works on paper installed ...
Findlay Galleries was founded as "Findlay Art Rooms" In Kansas City, Missouri, in 1870, by William Wadsworth Findlay. Initially, the company sold art supplies (including paints, brushes, canvas, etc.) as well as paintings. [1] William's son, Walstein C. Findlay, took over the business.
William Rockhill Nelson (March 7, 1841 – April 13, 1915) was an American real estate developer and co-founder of The Kansas City Star in Kansas City, Missouri. He donated his estate (and home) for the establishment of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He is buried at Mt. Washington Cemetery with his wife, daughter and son-in-law.
The Frederick R. Koch Foundation, which he founded, is a major donor to the Morgan Library & Museum [8] and Frick Collection in New York City and to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. [3] Of particular note are The Frederick R. Koch Collections at the Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library at Harvard University, and at Yale ...
Bernie Madoff has six grandchildren, according to the Post: Daniel, Katie, Anne, Emily, Audrey, and Nicholas. All of his grandchildren have changed their last names to avoid being linked with ...
In 1978, Helen Foresman Spencer, another female Kansas City collector, made a substantial gift to fund the construction of a new space, under the directorship of Charles C. Eldredge. The new building was designed by the architect and Class of 1926 alum Robert E. Jenks in the Neoclassical style from Indiana limestone .