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Pink Palace in Memphis (2008) The Pink Palace Family of Museums is a group of museums maintained by the City of Memphis and Memphis Museums, Inc. They display collections of historical, educational and technological significance. [1] The following museums are part of the group: The Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium in Memphis.
The three murals were commissioned in 1934 by the Public Works of Art Project of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's government, as part of a series of numerous art and public works projects to employ artists and others during the Great Depression. [4] Callicott, who died in 2004, taught at the Memphis College of Art. [5]
Area history, culture Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: Memphis: Shelby: West: Art: Collections include Italian Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionist, and 20th-century artists, English portraiture, contemporary paintings, 19th- and 20th-century sculpture and decorative arts Memphis Music Hall of Fame: Memphis: Shelby: West: Music: Memphis musicians
The Memphis Brooks Museum received a donation of 75 works — including paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and videos — by Black artists.
Memphis Museum of Natural History and Industrial Arts opens. Sterick Building constructed. Population: 253,143. [9] 1931 Memphis World newspaper begins publication. [11] Cotton Carnival begins. [3] [24] 1932 – Memphis Times newspaper begins publication. [4] 1936 – Memphis Academy of Art founded. 1937 – Firestone factory in operation in ...
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The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest fine art museum in the state of Tennessee. A smaller art museum, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in east Memphis focuses on impressionism. Downtown Memphis is home to the Peabody Place Museum, the largest collection of 19th-century Chinese art in the nation.
The Memphis city council voted to keep the arena open in 2004. [19] A committee headed by Memphis businessman Scott Ledbetter studied possible uses of the arena in 2005 and considered such uses as converting the arena into a casino, an aquarium, a shopping mall, or an indoor theme park. [20]