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The Birmingham Museum of Art is owned by the City of Birmingham and encompasses 3.9 acres (16,000 m 2) in the heart of the city's cultural district. Erected in 1959, the present building was designed by architects Warren, Knight & Davis, and a major renovation and expansion by Edward Larrabee Barnes of New York was completed in 1993.
Third Hallgarten Prize (1888) Second Hallgarten Prize (1895) Charles Courtney Curran (13 February 1861 – 9 November 1942) was an American impressionist painter. [1] He is best known for his canvases depicting women in various settings. [2] As well as for his leadership role at the Cragsmoor Art Colony. [3]
Richard Howard Hunt (September 12, 1935 – December 16, 2023) was an American sculptor. [ 2] In the second half of the 20th century, he became "the foremost African-American abstract sculptor and artist of public sculpture." [ 3] Hunt, the descendant of enslaved people brought from West Africa through the Port of Savannah, studied at the ...
Cincinnati Art Museum has hundreds of paintings on display, but that's just the tip of the iceberg of what Cincinnati Art Museum actually has under its roof. Currently there are 444 paintings on ...
Bernheim Forest and Arboretum, formerly Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, is a 16,137 acres (65.30 km 2) arboretum, forest, and nature preserve located in Clermont, Kentucky (25 miles south of Louisville, Kentucky, United States ). Bernheim was founded in 1929 by Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, a German immigrant and successful brewer whose whiskey ...
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, based on the history of the Underground Railroad. Opened in 2004, the center also pays tribute to all efforts to "abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people". It is one of a new group of "museums of conscience" in the United States, along ...
The Cincinnati Art Museumis an art museumin the Eden Parkneighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies, and is one of the oldest in the United States. Its collection of over 67,000 works spanning 6,000 years of human history make it one of the most comprehensive collections ...
Designated. 25 April 1952. Reference no. 1210333. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery ( BM&AG) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history.