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29-578: The Carnegie Prize was established in 1896, to recognize the best painting shown in the first annual exhibition of the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute . Unlike most American annual exhibitions, which were limited to artists born or resident in the United States, the Carnegie exhibitions were international. To attract top painters from home and abroad, the Carnegie exhibitions offered high cash prizes—$ 1,500 for

58-409: A collection of 230 dinosaur fossils—including the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex known to date—as well as exhibits such as Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems , Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians, and Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt. The museum's Powdermill Nature Reserve was established in 1956 to serve as a field station for long-term studies of natural populations, and now forms the core of

87-552: A host of artists. In 1985, the Carnegie Prize was refocused to recognize not just a single work of art but an honoree's entire body of work. In the 1990s, the exhibition expanded to include non-traditional artists and filmmakers. As of 2019, 67 Carnegie Prizes had been awarded and one was refused (Irish painter Francis Bacon , 1967). The Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida was awarded it twice (1964 for an individual sculpture, 1979 for his body of work). American painter Cecilia Beaux

116-437: A music venue, a social media studio called Warhol Creative, and expand places for public art exhibits. The proposed site would be around 58,000 square feet (17,500 square meters), including a first-floor concert venue with standing room for up to 1,000 people, a second-floor mezzanine, and an events space that could hold up to 360 people on the fourth floor. The third floor would be used for offices and support spaces. The project

145-606: A number of temporary and permanent exhibits, including Highmark SportsWorks , the Miniature Railroad & Village , and the Robot Hall of Fame . On February 21, 1990, Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz introduced Senate Bill S. 2151, which allowed the USS Requin , a World War II submarine , to be transferred as an exhibit for the science center. The purpose of the exhibit is for visitors to learn how people lived and worked on

174-778: A role in Armstrong's resignation. On November 1, 1997, the AWFVA donated all Warhol film and video copyrights to the museum. In 2013, it was announced that in Manhattan , New York City , in the Essex Crossing development on the Lower East Side , an annex to the main Pittsburgh museum was scheduled to open by 2017. However, the museum announced in March 2015 that it had dropped its plans to open

203-488: A series of name changes and transformations—adding a gold medal for sculpture (beginning in 1958), and going from a schedule of every year to every second or third year, and now, to every fourth or fifth year. The exhibitions in the late 1970s were retrospectives of established artists. In 1982, the exhibition was renamed the Carnegie International , and returned to its original mission of showing recent works by

232-630: Is headquartered in the Carnegie Institute and Library complex in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The Carnegie Institute complex, which includes the original museum, recital hall, and library, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1979. Two of the Carnegie museums, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Museum of Art , are both located in

261-563: The Andy Warhol Museum is the first museum to exclusively focus on an American postwar artist. The building which houses the Andy Warhol Museum was originally built in 1911 for industrial purposes, but was redesigned for the museum by architect Richard Gluckman . The museum currently has seven floors of gallery and exhibition space as well as an underground education studio and conservation lab. Warhol's primary artistic technique

290-732: The Carnegie Prize of the National Academy of Design , the Carnegie Prize of the Society of American Artists , the Carnegie Art Award (Sweden), or with the Carnegie Medal (literary award) . Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is a nonprofit organization that operates four museums in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States . The organization

319-648: The United States . It is the largest museum in North America dedicated to a single artist. The museum holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives from the Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol . The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and is a collaborative project of the Carnegie Institute , the Dia Art Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for

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348-405: The 19th and 20th centuries. In 2001 the museum acquired the archive of African-American photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris , consisting of approximately 80,000 photographic negatives spanning from the 1930s to the 1970s. Many of these images have been cataloged and digitized. The museum's permanent collection includes European and American decorative arts from the late seventeenth century to

377-582: The AWFVA had donated more than 1,000 of Warhol's works worth over $ 55 million, a donation that grew to about 3,000 works. On May 13–14, 1994, the museum attracted about 25,000 visitors to its opening weekend. Armstrong, its founding director, resigned nine months after its opening; at the time of his resignation, the museum had had "tense relations" with the AWFVA and the Carnegie Institute, its financial backer, though The New York Times could find no one involved who would say whether that friction played

406-570: The Carnegie Institute and Library complex in Oakland, a landmark building listed on the National Register of Historic Places (ref #79002158, added 1979). It also houses the Carnegie Music Hall and the main branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh . Andrew Carnegie donated the library and the buildings. With the goal of inspiring people to do good for themselves and their communities,

435-636: The First Class winner, $ 1,000 for the Second-Class winner and $ 500 for the Third-Class winner. The First-Class winner's cash prize was accompanied by the Carnegie Gold Medal of Honor (1896), designed by Tiffany & Co. and cast by J.E. Caldwell & Co. Often, especially in the early years, the prize-winning painting was purchased for the museum's permanent collection. The exhibition has undergone

464-472: The New York annex. In October 2019, an audio tape of publicly unknown music by Lou Reed , based on Warhol's 1975 book, “ The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again ”, was reported to have been discovered in an archive at the museum in Pittsburgh. In 2022, the museum announced a $ 60 million expansion deemed The 'Pop District' covering six blocks in Pittsburgh, PA. The expansion looks to build

493-480: The Visual Arts (AWFVA). The museum is located in an 88,000-square-foot (8,200 m ) facility on seven floors. Containing 17 galleries, the museum features 900 paintings, close to 2,000 works on paper, over 1,000 published unique prints, 77 sculptures, 4,000 photographs, and over 4,350 Warhol films and videotaped works. Its most recent operating budget (2010) was $ 6.1 million. In addition to its Pittsburgh location

522-500: The boat. The Buhl Planetarium and larger Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh merged in 1987, leading to an October 1989 groundbreaking on the newly-named Carnegie Science Center building. A large donation by the Kamin family led to the science center's renaming in 2024. The Andy Warhol Museum The Andy Warhol Museum is located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , in

551-480: The director of the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1974 to 1990, was named the museum's first director in 1993. Matt Wrbican joined the staff of the museum before it opened, inventorying Warhol's belongings in New York, and has become the archivist and an expert on Warhol's work. By 1993, the 88,000-square-foot (8,200 m ) industrial warehouse and its extensive renovations had cost about $ 12 million, and

580-458: The entire Andy Warhol Video Collection, 228 four-minute Screen Tests , and 45 other films by Warhol; and extensive archives, including Warhol's Time Capsules . While dedicated to Andy Warhol, the museum also hosts many exhibits by contemporary artists. When Andrew Carnegie envisioned a museum collection consisting of the "Old Masters of tomorrow," the Carnegie Museum of Art arguably became

609-817: The first museum of modern art in the United States. The museum was founded as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute in 1895. The name was changed to its current name in 1986. Today the museum continues showcasing contemporary art by staging the Carnegie International exhibition every three to five years. Numerous works from the International exhibitions have been acquired for the museums' permanent collection including Winslow Homer 's The Wreck (1896) and James A. McNeill Whistler 's Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate (1884). The Hall of Sculpture, constructed in white marble , replicates

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638-573: The interior of the Parthenon . The Hall of Architecture contains the largest collection of plaster casts of architectural masterpieces in America and one of the three largest in the world. Opened in 1974, the Sarah Scaife Galleries Annex was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes and Associates. The Sarah Scaife Foundation gift nearly doubled the exhibition square footage. The modernist addition

667-534: The museum has sponsored 56 traveling exhibits that have attracted close to nine million visitors in 153 venues worldwide since 1996. Plans for the museum were announced in October 1989, about 2½ years after Warhol's death. At the time of the announcement, works worth an estimated $ 80 million were donated to the newly announced museum by the AWFVA and the Dia Art Foundation. Thomas N. Armstrong III , who had been

696-674: The museum's Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystems. Research teams that included Carnegie scientists have made discoveries such as Puijila darwini and Hadrocodium wui . Opened in 1991, but with a history that dates to October 24, 1939, the Kamin Science Center is the most visited museum in Pittsburgh. The Kamin Science Center houses the Buhl Planetarium & Observatory, the Rangos Giant Cinema Theater, and

725-401: The present, works on paper, paintings, prints (most notably Japanese prints), sculptures and installations. Opened alongside the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1895, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is currently home to over twenty million objects and artifacts. Carnegie oversaw the collecting from 1895 to 1907 and it reflected his ideas of evolutionary development. Most notably, it houses

754-485: The terms for donations required communities to support them in exchange for the building and initial investment by Carnegie. The words "free to the people" inscribed above the entrance of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh illustrate his vision. The other two museums, The Andy Warhol Museum and the Kamin Science Center , are located in separate facilities on Pittsburgh's North Shore . Opened on May 15, 1994,

783-477: Was designed to not compete with the existing building. Trustee James L. Winokur says of architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, "He kept the old building out front. He was not terribly concerned about getting credit, just concerned about doing the job right, and he did do it right." The Heinz Architectural Center , opened as part of the museum in 1993, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings, prints and models. Most of these are from

812-600: Was silkscreen pop art, which he gained notoriety for in the early 1960s. The serial images derived from the culture's consumerism and conception of beauty are reified in a form of art which represent the identity of constituents in postwar American society. Images used by Warhol, which have made him famous for his contributions to pop art , include celebrities and consumables such as Marilyn Monroe and The Campbell's soup can . The museum's collection includes over 4,000 Warhol art works in all media — paintings , drawings , prints , photographs , sculptures , and installation ;

841-511: Was the first woman awarded the Carnegie Prize (1899); German sculptor Rebecca Horn was the second woman (1988). South African artist William Kentridge was the first filmmaker awarded it (1999). Documenta , the German contemporary art exhibition, was the only organization awarded the prize (1979). English artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was the first woman of color awarded the prize (2018). The Carnegie International's prize should not be confused with

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