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May 11, 2017 · But its biggest cultural star is the Nelson-Atkins museum. The collection is encyclopaedic, the pieces often top quality. Here, for example, you find one of the most important holdings of Chinese art outside of China, a world-class Indian collection, and European pictures that include Caravaggio’s Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness (1604).
Francesco Mosca, called Moschino, Italian (1525-1578). Atalanta and Meleager with the Calydonian Boar, ca. 1564-1565. Carrara marble, 81 x 40 x 42 inches. Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust, 34-94. Paul Gauguin, French (1848-1903). Faaturuma (Melancholic), 1891. Oil on canvas, 37 x 26 7/8 inches. Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust, 38-5.
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One Hundred Years of French Painting 1820-1920, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 31-April 28, 1935, no. 64, as The Olive Grove. Possibly Vincent Van Gogh, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 12-July 10, 1936, hors cat., as Olive Grove.
Mar 25, 2023 · Thanks to a generous recent gift from The Saul Steinberg Foundation, we can slip into Steinberg’s world to reason along with him, wondering and marveling along the way. Organized by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Image Caption: Saul Steinberg, American, born Romania (1914–1999). Untitled, 1957. Ink and watercolor on Strathmore paper, 12 5 ...
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Bingham to Benton: The Midwest as Muse, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 5–July 31, 2005, no cat. Gallery LabelThomas Hart Benton's Persephone recasts a Greek myth in a contemporary, rural guise. Beautiful Persephone was abducted by Hades, who imprisoned her in the underworld.