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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 ...
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 from 2021 to March 2024 was the temporary quarters of the Frick Collection while the Henry Clay Frick House ...
April 2, 1987 (655 W. Jefferson Blvd. University Park: Landmark large-event venue; headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners: 4: Aloha Apartment Hotel
Flora Payne Whitney served as a museum trustee, then as vice president. From 1942 to 1974, she was the museum's president and chair, after which she served as honorary chair until her death in 1986. Her daughter Flora Miller Biddle served as president until 1995. Her book The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made was published in 1999. [60]
A+D Museum was founded by Stephen Kanner and Bernard Zimmerman in 2001. [3] [4] Kanner was inspired by a similar museum he had visited in Helsinki, Finland.[4]The museum first opened its doors in January 2001 in the Bradbury Building, located at 304 South Broadway (3rd Street and Broadway) in downtown Los Angeles; a space donated by Ira Yellin.
Millard Sheets was born June 24, 1907, and grew up in the Pomona Valley, east of Los Angeles. [2] [3] He is the son of John Sheets. [4]He attended the Chouinard Art Institute and studied with painters Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle. [5]
This is a List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on the Westside.In total, there are more than 85 Historic-Cultural Monuments (HCM) on the Westside, and a handful of additional sites that have been recognized by the Cultural Heritage Commission for having been designated as California Historical Landmarks or having been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
Archibald Quincy Jones FAIA (April 29, 1913 – August 3, 1979) was a Los Angeles–based architect and educator known for innovative buildings in the modernist style and for urban planning that pioneered the use of greenbelts and green design.