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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of Asian art. In 2007, Time magazine ranked the museum's new Bloch Building number one on its list of "The 10 Best (New and Upcoming ...
Opened in 1933, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has more than 40,000 works of art. The museum’s outstanding feature is its collection of Asian art. The collection of Chinese landscape paintings is one of the finest in the West, and the museum’s holdings of Chinese ceramics and decorative arts are also noteworthy.
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When the massive Beaux Art Nelson-Atkins’ Building opened in 1933, newspapers nationwide reported visitors “amazed,” “gasping at its innovations and marveling at its luxury.” Still, times being the Great Depression, operations were modest: only three telephones serviced the entire building; lights in the galleries were turned off when people left a...
When William Rockhill Nelsonarrived in Kansas City in the early 1880s, he found a raw frontier town. He pronounced it “incredibly ugly and commonplace” and determined that “if I were to live here the town must be made over.” As founder of The Kansas City Star, Nelson soon became a crusader for civic improvements, setting out to make the city more b...
Original Nelson-Atkins Building – 1933 Groundbreaking for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, a neoclassic structure designed by Kansas City architects Wight and Wight, took place on July 16, 1930. The structure was made of warm buff limestone with a rosy cast, quarried in William Rockhill Nelson’s home state of Indiana. Only two years were needed to ...
Van Gogh painted two groups of olive tree paintings in the summer and fall of 1889 while recuperating at the mental health facility of St.-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, in southern France. There, in the last year of his life, he painted almost 150 works, at least fifteen of which form part of the series.
- Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853-1890
- Olive Trees
- June/September 1889
A Dream Realized. The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts was the realization of the dreams of William Rockhill Nelson and Mary McAfee Atkins. Both envisioned a world-class art museum in Kansas City as a means of enhancing the cultural life of Kansas City, their adopted hometown.
The art in place, Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum opened to the public December 11, 1933. It rated high praise in national-circulation magazines and newspapers, which exclaimed over the opulence of the building, the beautiful landscaping, the outstanding art collection, and the state-of-the-art lighting and ventilation techniques.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, is home to more than 42,000 works of art with a campus that includes the original Nelson-Atkins Building (Wight and Wight, 1933), the Bloch Building expansion (Steven Holl Architects, 2007), and the 22-acre Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park (Dan Kiley). It ...
