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Laurence Chalfant Stevens Sickman (1907–1988) was an American academic, art historian, sinologist and Director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. [ 1 ] Education
Cafe in the museum Shuttlecock. The museum was built on the grounds of Oak Hall, the home of Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson (1841–1915). [2] When he died in 1915, his will provided that upon the deaths of his wife and daughter, the proceeds of his entire estate would go to purchasing artwork for public enjoyment.
The Spencer Art Reference Library (SARL) is a library housed in the Bloch Building of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. Its collection of over 260,000 visual arts related resources support the work of the museum.
In her book “The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A History,” Kristie Wolferman reports that in 1933, 1934 and 1935, “Sickman sent crate after crate of Chinese art objects to the Nelson-Atkins.”
Today, his artistic talent is recognized and embraced by Kansas City’s West Side community where he grew up, and is considered one of the most respected names in the local Hispanic art world.
[1] [2] In December 2005, the collection was donated to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.c [3] [4] At that time, the collection consisted of 6,500 images by 900 artists, with an estimated market value of $65 million.
The family of Kansas City businessman and philanthropist Morton Sosland had commissioned the couple to produce a work of art for the Nelson grounds. It was up to the sculptors to come up with an idea.
The Artists' File Initiative (AFI) is an archival project established in 2015 and located in The Spencer Art Reference Library at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.. The mission of AFI is to create archival files documenting the careers of the creative community of Kansas City, Missouri.