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Title: A Spray of Promise
Description: Art review of the newly opened Spray Booth Gallery that occupies a back room accessible only through the new Volker Bicycles at 18th and Wyandotte streets. The initiatior of the gallery, Andrew Lyles, a 2010 Kansas City Art Institute graduate and avid biker, "enlisted artist friends to help fix it up and asked six former schoolmates to show work in the inaugural exhibition." Two color pictures show "Big Bob" by David Rhoads and Matt Jacobs' "Accidental Oriental (Girls)."
Date: 2011-02-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Art, Commerce Collide in Quandary
Description: Two paintings by Kansas artist Birger Sandzen are in the possession of the Kansas City, Kansas School District. The paintings were purchased by the senior class of 1922 and 1938 and for many years hung in Wyandotte High School. The classes paid $300 for the paintings at the time and they are now worth $195,000. In later years they have hung in the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library. The school district has not yet decided what to do with the artwork. Options include selling it, placing it back in the library, or loaning to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Includes a picture of the paintings and Stanley Lind from the 1938 senior class.
Date: 2007-01-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Blochs Add To Nelson Treasures
Description: A promised gift of 29 impressionist works was made today by Marion and Henry Bloch. According to Marc Wilson, director and CEO of the Nelson, this is the largest gift the museum has received. The gift includes works by Manet, Monet, Degas, and Pissarro. Four of the impressionist pieces will be on display in an exhibit starting February 13, 2010.
Date: 2010-02-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Foundation for Creativity
Description: The 2011 award winners of grants from Charlotte Street Foundation include Peggy Noland, Ricky Allman, and Andy Brayman. Works from the three are pictured: Noland's Crossroads boutique "with outlandish installations on themes that have included fast food, stuffed animals and fingernails;" Allman's painting "Free;" and Brayman's pottery "Double-Stem Vases with Blue and White."
Date: 2011-04-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Art Gallery
Description: Review of the additions of three paintings to the Nelson Gallery of Art--"The Entombment," by Josef de Ribera and two by Rembrandt, "The Slaughter House" or "Flayed Ox" and a self-portrait. From the Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri, for Year Ending June 30th, 1907.
Date: 1907-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Nelson Gallery of Art
Description: Section of the Twenty-first Annual Report of the Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri, for Year Ending June 30th, 1902, tells of the transfer of the "entire collection of reproductions of Old Masters, heretofore known as 'The Western Gallery of Art,' to the School District of Kansas City, and its change of name to 'The Nelson Gallery of Art' in recognition of the munificence of the donor, Mr. W. R. Nelson. The nucleus of this collection was presented to the Kansas City Art Association, for the city, in 1897." Because the association did not have a building suitable, the works were displayed and housed in the Kansas City Public Library building.
Date: 1902
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 'Canyon Suite' Fallout Still Echoes
Description: Article about the aftermath of the "Canyon Suite debacle". The Kemper Museum bought a set of watercolors in the early 1990s which were supposed to be early works by Georgia O'Keeffe. They were later found to be fakes. Article includes a "Time line of a fiasco".
Date: 2006-04-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: History of Kansas Takes Shape on 10-Piece Mural
Description: Dennis Schiel, who has spent hours researching and planning, began painting what will be a 10-piece panel mural depicting scenes from Kansas history. When completed, Schiel hopes it will be placed in the capitol in the visitors center. "Along with the mural, Schiel is planning a computer program written for the State's Web site" which allows someone to click on one of the 10 panels and find out the history of the tableau. Schiel plans to have it finished by January 2011, in time for the state's 150th anniversary.
Date: 2009-11-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A 'Final Countdown'
Description: The new Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will open on June 16, 2007. The addition is a 165,000-square-feet glass and steel structure designed by Steven Holl. The inaugural exhibitions will include a show of Impressionist paintings from the collection of Henry and Marion Bloch and an exhibit of 19th-century photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection which was recently acquired by the museum. This new addition will house the museum's permanent collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art, as well as 11,600 square feet of special exhibition space. Includes a diagram of the Bloch Building.
Date: 2006-06-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: American Artist, American Indians
Description: Article notes the traveling exhibit of George Catlin's paintings of American Indians, currently at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The exhibit opened February 7, 2004 and will run until April 18, 2004. The article includes the history of the artist's life as well as his trips West.
Date: 2004-02-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Those Centennial Portraits
Description: One of a series of letters to the editor from an eyewitness of Bingham's interaction with the female subjects of his portrait in Washington, D. C., testifying to "only a few idle moments" spent by the artist with the ladies Vinnie Ream and Mrs. Belknap. George Caleb Bingham painted a portrait in 1876 celebrating the centennial of the United States. Questions were raised in certain quarters as to the propriety of his behavior with the two women who were the subjects of the portrait.
Date: 1876-05-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Poetic Justice
Description: Article contains winning poetry from the Star's Missouri poetry contest. Poems are by Bill Bauer, Edward Cunningham, Judith Bader Jones and Jane Gibler. Article also features paintings by Allan Chow.
Date: 2005-08-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article