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35-418: Lee Hall may refer to: People [ edit ] Lee Hall (artist) (1934–2017), American abstract painter, writer, educator, and former university president Lee Hall (playwright) (born 1966), English playwright and screenwriter Jesse Lee Hall (1849–1911), American Western lawman Lee Hall (died 1955), pilot of United Airlines Flight 629 , destroyed by

70-644: A 700 lb (320 kg) ball and chain to the leg of the sculpture. In 1994, the Volunteer Park facility reopened as the Seattle Asian Art Museum. In 2007, the Olympic Sculpture Park opened to the public, culminating an eight-year process. In 2017, the Seattle Asian Art Museum closed for a two-year $ 54 million renovation and expansion project. The museum reopened February 8, 2020. In September 2021, employees of Seattle Art Museum called for

105-588: A BFA degree in 1955. She had studied under painter John Opper . She continued her studies at New York University and received a MA degree in art education in 1959, followed by a PhD in creative arts in 1965. She did postdoctoral work at Warburg Institute . Hall was an abstract landscape painter. Early in her career she formed relationships with painters Elaine and Willem de Kooning, and art dealer Betty Parsons . She had exhibited her paintings alongside Jackson Pollock , Mark Rothko , and Robert Motherwell . For many years she had maintained her painting studio on

140-518: A bomb in 1955 Places [ edit ] Lee Hall, Virginia , a community within Newport News, Virginia Lee Hall Mansion , the historic NRHP-listed house for which the community is named Lee Hall Depot , the historic NRHP-listed train station that served the community from the late 19th to the late 20th century Lee Hall (Virginia Tech) , a residence Hall on the campus of Virginia Tech Leigh Hall (Gainesville, Florida) Lee Hall,

175-481: A boycott of the museum for policies they claim unfairly target unhoused people. Soon after, in October 2021, SAM Director and CEO, Amada Cruz , signed onto a letter on behalf of the museum in support of increasing the city's police budget. The letter also advocated for subsidized security for nonprofit institutions, despite the recent termination of SAM's contract with Star Protection Services due to employee misconduct and

210-528: A building at Wolfson College, Cambridge , England Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lee Hall . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lee_Hall&oldid=1145572219 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

245-564: A downtown city block, the former J. C. Penney department store on the west side of Second Avenue between Union and Pike Streets. They eventually decided that this particular block was not a suitable site: that land was sold for private development as the Newmark Building, and the museum acquired land in the next block south. On December 5, 1991, SAM reopened in a $ 62 million downtown facility designed by Robert Venturi . The next year, one of Jonathan Borofsky 's Hammering Man sculptures

280-1051: A farm in Lyme , Connecticut . Lee’s art is held in many museum collections including the Indianapolis Museum of Art , the Montclair Art Museum , the Seattle Art Museum , the Newark Museum of Art , the Hudson River Museum , the Weatherspoon Art Museum , the Rhode Island School of Design Museum , the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art , and the Mint Museum . Hall taught at State University of New York at Potsdam (SUNY Potsdam) from 1958 until 1960; she

315-626: A painting by Henri Matisse which had been looted by Nazis in World War II, after having requested that the family sue in order to reach a legal settlement that included another art dealer. So in October 1997, Rosenberg's family filed suit in District Court , to recover the painting Odalisque (1927 or 1928). It was the first lawsuit against an American museum concerning ownership of Nazi plunder during World War II. Then museum director Mimi Gardner Gates brokered an 11th hour settlement that returned

350-534: A retrospective of the work of Northwest School painter Mark Tobey that traveled to four other U.S. museums. Tobey's works and highlights of SAM's Asian collection were featured under the museum's aegis at the Century 21 Exposition (the 1962 Seattle World's Fair ). A Jacob Lawrence retrospective in 1974 honored a giant of African American art who had settled in Seattle four years earlier. Leonardo Lives (1997) featured

385-525: Is a 9-acre (3.6 ha) free and open public park on the Seattle waterfront just north of downtown. It opened on January 20, 2007. Amada Cruz was named director and CEO of the Seattle Art Museum in 2019. She succeeded Kimberly Rorschach who served as director from 2012 to 2019. The Seattle Art Museum only receives 4% of its funding from the government; the rest of its operating costs are covered by ticket fees and its membership base. As of 2014,

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420-639: Is an art museum located in Seattle , Washington , United States. The museum operates three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle ; the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park , Capitol Hill ; and Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened in 2007. The SAM collection has grown from 1,926 pieces in 1933 to nearly 25,000 as of 2008. Its original museum provided an area of 25,000 square feet (2,300 m );

455-762: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lee Hall (artist) Lee Hall was born on December 15, 1934, in Lexington , North Carolina . Her parents divorced when she was young and her early childhood was spent in Florida. She attended the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, in Greensboro (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro ) and received

490-644: Is located at University Street and First Avenue, and was completed by Venturi , Scott Brown and Associates at 150,000 square feet (14,000 m ) with a $ 28.1 million budget. In 2006, the Seattle Art Museum began expanding its 1991 location in a joint effort with Washington Mutual (WaMu); the enlarged building was originally known as the WaMu Center. The expansion actually began in July 2004. Several pieces had to be temporarily moved to prevent them from being damaged due to vibrations during construction. This would have been

525-663: Is suggested, meaning that the museum would like visitors to pay the complete admission but if they can not pay fully they can still enjoy the museum. After the Century 21 Exposition, the fairgrounds became Seattle Center, and the UK Pavilion became the Modern Art Pavilion of the museum. It remained in use until 1987. The Asian Art Museum has been located since 1994 in the original 1933 Deco/Moderne SAM facility in Volunteer Park on Seattle's Capitol Hill. The Olympic Sculpture Park

560-619: The Academy for Educational Development (AED) the following year. In 1993, Hall released the book Elaine and Bill, Portrait of a Marriage: The Lives of Willem and Elaine de Kooning (1993, HarperCollins) which was highly debated amongst artists and caused controversy due to the portrayal of Elaine de Kooning as "a sexual predator". Hall died of stomach cancer on April 17, 2017, in Northampton , Massachusetts . Seattle Art Museum The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM )

595-538: The Codex Leicester , the last manuscript of Leonardo da Vinci in private hands, which had then been recently purchased by Bill Gates . As of January 2023, the museum's collection includes about 25,000 pieces. Among them are Alexander Calder 's Eagle (1971) and Richard Serra 's Wake (2004), both at the Olympic Sculpture Park; Cai Guo-Qiang 's Inopportune: Stage One (2004), a sculpture constructed from cars and sequenced multi-channel light tubes on display in

630-613: The 1970s, never taking a salary. SAM joined with the National Council on the Arts (later NEA ), Richard Fuller, and the Seattle Foundation (in part, another Fuller family endeavor) to acquire and install Isamu Noguchi 's sculpture Black Sun in front of the museum in Volunteer Park. It was the NEA's first commission in Seattle. In 1983 to 1984, the museum received a donation of half of

665-845: The artwork, after which the museum sued the gallery which had sold it the painting in the 1950s. Author Héctor Feliciano said it was only the second instance in the US of a museum returning looted art. The Seattle Art Museum contains the Dorothy Stimson Bullitt Library and the McCaw Foundation Library for Asian Art. The Dorothy Stimson Bullitt Library was founded in 1991. As of 2011 it contained 20,000 books and subscribed to 100 periodicals. It specializes in African art, contemporary art, decorative ars, European art, Modern art, and photography. The McCaw Foundation Library for Asian Art

700-513: The building September 9, 2009, and renaming it the Russell Investments Center . Currently, Russell Investments , a Northwestern Mutual subsidiary, is headquartered there, having relocated from Tacoma, Washington . Admission to the SAM's indoor facilities is free on the first Thursday of each month; SAM also offers free admission the first Saturday of the month. And even the normal admission

735-547: The construction, the museum's downtown location was closed from January 5, 2006, to May 5, 2007. The expanded building offers 70 percent more gallery space, an expanded museum store, and a new restaurant. In anticipation of the expansion, over a thousand new pieces, with a total value over a billion dollars, were donated to the collection. Washington Mutual's 2008 failure and subsequent acquisition by JPMorgan Chase resulted in Northwestern Mutual purchasing WaMu's share of

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770-538: The continued opposition of staff and community members. On January 7, 2022, the visitor service officers filed to unionize in partnership with IUPAT 116. In May 2022, security employees voted to form an independent union, the SAM Visitors Service Officers (VSO) Union. The National Labor Relations Board certified the SAM VSO Union as the security officers' representative on June 8, 2022. Since then,

805-831: The group renamed itself as the Art Institute of Seattle. The Art Institute housed its collection in Henry House, the former home, on Capitol Hill, of the collector and founder of the Henry Art Gallery , Horace C. Henry (1844–1928). Richard E. Fuller , president of the Seattle Fine Arts Society, was the animating figure of SAM in its early years. During the Great Depression , he and his mother, Margaret MacTavish Fuller, donated $ 250,000 to build an art museum in Volunteer Park on Seattle's Capitol Hill. The city provided

840-472: The initial foundation phase of the WaMu Center. In addition to reworking the Venturi building, SAM now takes up the first four floors of a 16-floor building designed by Portland, Oregon architect Brad Cloepfil . SAM also owns the next eight floors, which WaMu originally rented; Washington Mutual owned the top four floors. As SAM expands in the future, it can take over one or more of the rented floors. Because of

875-498: The land and received ownership of the building. Carl F. Gould of the architectural firm Bebb and Gould designed an Art Deco / Art Moderne building for the museum, which opened June 23, 1933. The Art Institute collection formed the core of the original SAM collection; the Fullers soon donated additional pieces. The Art Institute was responsible for managing art activities when the museum first opened. Fuller served as museum director into

910-605: The lobby of the SAM Downtown; The Judgment of Paris (c. 1516–18) by Lucas Cranach the Elder ; Mark Tobey's Electric Night (1944); Yéil X'eenh (Raven Screen) (c. 1810), attributed to the Tlingit artist Kadyisdu.axch'; Do-Ho Suh 's Some/One (2001); and a coffin in the shape of a Mercedes-Benz (1991) by Kane Quaye . The museum returned to the heirs of 1930s French-Jewish impressionist and post-impressionist art dealer Paul Rosenberg

945-403: The museum has a $ 23 million budget. As a result of the banking crisis, the museum in 2009 lost $ 5.8 million in annual rental and related income from its tenant Washington Mutual . It faced an accumulated debt of $ 56 million dating back from when the museum and Washington Mutual partnered on a new downtown building they intended to share. After the bank was sold to JPMorgan Chase in 2008, it left

980-572: The museum has recognized and bargained with the SAM VSO Union as the security officers’ collective bargaining representative, and is negotiating with the VSO for the first contract to cover the security officers. Among the museum's notable exhibitions were a 1954 exhibition of 25 European paintings and sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; these pieces were donated to SAM in 1961. A 1959 Van Gogh exhibit drew 126,100 visitors. That same year, SAM organized

1015-639: The museum with eight floors of office space, at a cost of about $ 5.8 million a year. Help came in the form of grants from the JPMorgan Chase and the Gates Foundation . The museum's endowment for art purchases is currently at less than $ 7.8 million. In 2016, the Seattle Art Museum was the Seattle Art Fair's Beneficiary Partner where it received $ 100,000 from the Opening Night Preview. While

1050-473: The number of visitors has grown, the pattern is more complicated: 346,287 people visited the museum in its first year; in 1978 the traveling exhibit Treasures of Tutankhamun (shown in the facility at Seattle Center ) drew 1.3 million visitors in four months; 2007 attendance was 797,127. In 2010, the exhibition "Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris" drew more than 405,000 and

1085-542: The present facilities provide 312,000 square feet (29,000 m ) plus a 9-acre (3.6 ha) park. Paid staff have increased from 7 to 303, and the museum library has grown from approximately 1,400 books to 33,252. SAM traces its origins to the Seattle Fine Arts Society (organized 1905) and the Washington Arts Association (organized 1906), which merged in 1917, keeping the Fine Arts Society name. In 1931

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1120-582: Was an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Art at Keuka College from 1960 until 1962; she taught at Winthrop College (now Winthrop University ) from 1962 until 1965; and served as Chair of the Department of Art at Drew University from 1965 until 1974. From 1975 until 1983, Hall served as the 13th President of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. During her tenure at RISD Hall

1155-503: Was founded in 1933. As of 2011 it contained 15,000 book volumes and subscribed to 100 periodicals. It specializes in Asian art. The museum's main collection moved to its present location on First Avenue in December 1991; the museum's original building became the Seattle Asian Art Museum in 1994. The building, a limestone-covered rectangle with a streak of tile and terra cotta around its outside,

1190-449: Was installed outside the museum as part of Seattle City Light 's One Percent for Art program. Hammering Man would have been installed in time for the museum's opening, but on September 28, 1991, as workers attempted to erect the piece, it fell, was damaged, and had to be returned to the foundry for repairs. Hammering Man was used in a guerrilla art installation on Labor Day in 1993 when Jason Sprinkle and other local artists attached

1225-575: Was part of the effort to introduce the first computer system for the administration, she was in leadership during the unionization of the faculty, she worked to revise the faculty manual, and to restructure the financial administration. On June 30, 1983, Hall stepped down from her role as president of RISD and she was succeeded by Thomas F. Schutte. After RISD, Hall became a partner in the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City as well as joined

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