Virginia Museum of Fine Arts records

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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts records

1919-1981

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A chronology and typescript history relating to the development of the Museum; a checklist of exhibitions which focused on Virginia and Southern artists; correspondence, including an exchange between Edward Hopper and the Museum's director Thomas Clyde Colt, Jr., and a letter from Louis M. Elshemius; and a catalog of works of art in the John Barton Payne collection.

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Art museum; Richmond, Va. From the description of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts records, 1919-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86132799 The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the nation's first state-supported art museum, opened to the public in 1936, "to promote education in the realm of art throughout the commonwealth," (Section 9-78, Code of Virginia). Partnership between private donors and state legislators, however established a pattern begun in 1919 when Joh...