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Sondra Freckelton
Sondra Freckelton (June 23, 1936 – June 10, 2019) was an American sculptor and watercolorist. She also known as Sondra Freckleton, and Sondra Beal. Life and career Sondra Freckelton was born on June 23, 1936, in Dearborn, Michigan. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1955, she married to fellow realist artist Jack Beal (1931–2013). Her sculpture was included in the 1959 exhibition ''Recent Sculpture U.S.A.'' at the Museum of Modern Art (as Sondra Beal). Her work was also included in the 1964 ''Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture'' at the Whitney (as Sondra Beal). In the mid-1970s Freckelton began focusing on watercolor painting. Freckelton died on June 10, 2019, in Oneonta, New York. Her work is in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Virgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dearborn, Michigan
Dearborn is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring Metro Detroit, suburb of Detroit, Dearborn borders Detroit to the south and west, roughly west of downtown Detroit. In the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it had a population of 109,976, ranking as the List of municipalities in Michigan, seventh-most populous city in Michigan. Dearborn is best known as the hometown of the Ford Motor Company and of its founder, Henry Ford. The first written settlement of Dearborn is from the 18th century by French Canadians, French Canadian voyageurs who initially called the settlement La Belle Fontaine or Place aux Fontaines because of the abundant Spring (hydrology), springs in the city. Therefore, Dearborn was once named Springwells, an Anglicisation, anglicization of the French name. The settlement was connected to the Detroit River ribbon farm communities and other farms connected to the River Rouge (Michigan), Rouge River and the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma City Museum Of Art
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) is a museum located in the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. The museum features traveling special exhibitions, original selections from its own collection, a theater showing a variety of foreign, independent, and classic films each week, and a restaurant. OKCMOA also houses a collection of Chihuly glass among the most comprehensive in the world, including the 55-foot Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower in the museum's atrium. History and development The Oklahoma City Museum of Art traces its origins to early projects of the Oklahoma Art League and Art Renaissance Club—groups that promoted art education in early Oklahoma City. Later, more formal programs emerged, with an Experimental Gallery by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), open to the public. When the museum incorporated, May 18, 1945, the federally funded gallery became a private institution. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Sculptors
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2019 Deaths
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1936 Births
Events January–February * January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House. * January 28 – Death and state funeral of George V, State funeral of George V of the United Kingdom. After a procession through London, he is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympics, IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10–February 19, 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the support of specific programs and all acquisition of artwork, as well as additional general support. Considered among the List of largest art museums, largest art museums in North America for area of exhibition space, the VMFA's comprehensive art collection includes African art, American art, British sporting art, Fabergé, and Himalayan art. One of the first museums in the Southern United States, American South to be operated by state funds, VMFA offers free admission, except for special exhibits. The VMFA, together with the adjacent Virginia Historical Society, anchors the Museum District, Richmond, Virginia, Museum District of Richmond, an area of the city known also as "West of the Boulevard". The museum includes the Leslie Cheek Theater, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM; formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art made in the United States from the colonial period to the present. More than 7,000 artists are represented in the museum's collection. Most exhibitions are held in the museum's main building, the Old Patent Office Building (which is shared with the National Portrait Gallery (United States), National Portrait Gallery), while craft-focused exhibitions are shown in the Renwick Gallery. The museum provides electronic resources to schools and the public through its national education program. It maintains seven online research databases with more than 500,000 records, including the Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture that document more than 400,000 artworks in public and private collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Museum Of Contemporary Art
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), formerly known as the Madison Art Center, is an independent, non-profit art museum located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. MMoCA is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and preserving modern and contemporary art. Its mission is to educate and inspire by means of rotating permanent collection exhibitions, special exhibitions, film series, and educational programming. The museum opened in its current home adjacent to the Overture Center for the Arts on April 23, 2006. Both MMoCA and the Overture Center were designed by architect César Pelli. History MMoCA is one of Madison's oldest cultural organizations. Established as the Madison Art Association in 1901, the organization presented education programs and exhibitions in borrowed spaces. In 1964, the organization leased the former Lincoln School on Lake Mendota and merged with the Madison Art Foundation to become the Madison Art Center. In 1980, the Madison Art Center moved into th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oneonta, New York
Oneonta ( ) is a Administrative divisions of New York#City, city in southern Otsego County, New York, Otsego County, New York (state), New York, United States. It is one of the northernmost cities of Appalachia. Oneonta is home to the State University of New York at Oneonta and Hartwick College. SUNY Oneonta began as a normal school and a teacher's college in 1889, and Hartwick College moved into the city in 1928. The approximately 5,800 students from SUNY Oneonta and the approximately 1,500 students at Hartwick make up a significant percentage of the population of Oneonta. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, Oneonta had a population of 13,079. Its nickname is "City of the Hills." While the word "oneonta" is of undetermined origin, it is popularly believed to mean "place of open rocks" in the Mohawk language. This refers to a prominent geological formation known as "Table Rock" at the western end of the city. The city is surrounded by the Administrative divisions of New York#Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalamazoo Institute Of Arts
The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA) is a non-profit art museum and school in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. History In 1924, members of the Kalamazoo Chapter of the American Federation of Arts established an art center "to further the development of interest and education in and of regard and appreciation for the various arts." The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts current building was unveiled in September 1961. Designed by the Chicago, Illinois, firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the structure is based on a Mies van der Rohe design for a small museum, in the International style (architecture), International Style of architecture. In 1997, the KIA began a $14.5 million expansion and renovation. The project increased the size of the KIA to , and added a two-story lobby gallery, auditorium, classrooms and galleries, gallery shop, library and an interactive gallery for children. Dale Chihuly's ''Kalamazoo Ruby Light Chandelier'', a colorful chande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Institute Of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park (Chicago), Grant Park. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, includes works such as Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, ''A Sunday on La Grande Jatte'', Pablo Picasso's ''The Old Guitarist'', Edward Hopper's ''Nighthawks (Hopper), Nighthawks'', and Grant Wood's ''American Gothic''. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present curatorial and scientific research. As a research institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five conservation laboratories, and Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, one of the nation's largest art history and ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
