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34-541: The museum houses collected architecture (the Chapter House, 1932), acquired paintings by Monet (1910) and Gauguin (1921), and presented photography as an art form (1904). The Worcester Art Museum also has a conservation lab and year-round studio art program for adults and youth. In September 1896, Stephen Salisbury III and a group of his friends founded the Art Museum Corporation to build an art institution "for

68-505: A Rembrandt , a Burne-Jones , and a room of Impressionist and 20th-century works by Monet , Matisse , Renoir , Gauguin , and Kandinsky . The American painting collection includes works by Thomas Cole , Winslow Homer , John Singer Sargent , William Morris Hunt , Elizabeth Goodridge , among others. In the 20th-century gallery, the Museum displays works by Franz Kline , Jackson Pollock , and Joan Mitchell . In 1901, John Chandler Bancroft,

102-514: A 200-member Corporation and over 3,000 members and 100 Business Partners. It employs 65 full-time and 128 part-time personnel (including 56 professional artist faculty) and enlists hundreds of volunteers and docents. In November 2017, the Museum was awarded reaccreditation by the American Alliance for Museums. April 10, 2021 – January 16, 2022 What the Nazis Stole from Richard Neumann (and

136-545: A collection of works worth over one million dollars. Four individuals were charged with the theft as well as the theft of seven artworks stolen from the Boyden Library at Deerfield Academy . In 2013, Worcester's Higgins Armory Museum closed its doors and its renowned collection of arms and armor was integrated into that of the Worcester Art Museum. A permanent arms and armor gallery will open no later than 2023; in

170-649: A degree from Harvard Law School in 1861, and was admitted to the bar that October. Like his father, he maintained a long association with the American Antiquarian Society . He was elected a member in 1863, served on its board of councilors from 1847 to 1884, as vice-president from 1884 to 1887, and as president from 1887 until his death in 1905. He was also an active member of the Worcester County Horticultural Society , servings as president from 1879 to 1881. A Republican , he

204-437: A matching style. The most distinctive addition was added in 1931–33 in the form of the large wing facing Salisbury Street. Designed to include the Chapter House and Renaissance Court, this addition was designed by William Truman Aldrich of Boston, an architect known for museums. This was followed in 1939-40 by the addition of a fourth floor to the original building, designed by G. Adolph Johnson of Worcester. The next addition

238-417: A selection of 5,000 Japanese prints , drawings, and books, willed to the museum from John Chandler Bancroft , son of John Bancroft. In 1905, Stephen Salisbury died and left the bulk of his five million-dollar estate to the museum. The Worcester Art Museum continued to grow, with some of the significant early works donated or loaned by the artist and collector Helen Bigelow Merriman . Between 1932 and 1939,

272-495: A wealthy Bostonian, bequeathed more than 3,000 Japanese prints. The Bancroft Collection spans the history of woodcut printmaking in Japan, with particular strength in rare, early images from the late 17th and 18th centuries. Salisbury's estate donation included many portraits commissioned by his family, as well as sculpture, furniture, and silver. These works, by artists such as Gilbert Stuart , Thomas Crawford , and Samuel F.B. Morse and

306-713: The State Senate , was president of the Worcester National Bank, and directed the Worcester & Nashua Railroad . He was a trustee of the Worcester City Hospital and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute . Stephen Salisbury III was born in Worcester on March 31, 1835. He graduated from Harvard College in 1856, and studied abroad for two years at Friedrich Wilhelm University . He received

340-755: The Mayan History . [REDACTED] Media related to Stephen Salisbury III at Wikimedia Commons The Architects Collaborative The Architects Collaborative ( TAC ) was an American architectural firm formed by eight architects that operated between 1945 and 1995 in Cambridge, Massachusetts . The founding members were Norman C. Fletcher (1917–2007), Jean B. Fletcher (1915–1965), John C. Harkness (1916–2016), Sarah P. Harkness (1914–2013), Robert S. McMillan (1916–2001), Louis A. McMillen (1916–1998), Benjamin C. Thompson (1918–2002), and Walter Gropius (1883–1969). TAC created many successful projects, and

374-580: The United States and internationally. In its initial decades, TAC's architecture was mainly in the International Style , early examples of which had been created by Gropius and his colleagues at the Bauhaus and elsewhere. Starting in the 1970s, TAC's style largely shifted from modernism to postmodernism , which was generally coming into favor in the architectural field. As the firm's staff increased and

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408-549: The Worcester Art Museum joined a consortium of museums and institutions to sponsor expeditions to the archaeological sites where the city of Antioch once stood. This group of museums, including Princeton University , the Musée du Louvre , the Baltimore Museum of Art , and Harvard University 's affiliate, Dumbarton Oaks , discovered hundreds of intricate floor mosaics. The Antioch mosaics , as they are now known, were split up among

442-615: The benefit of all." Salisbury then gave a tract of land, on what was once the Salisbury farm (now fronting Salisbury Street in Worcester, Massachusetts), as well as $ 100,000 USD to construct a building designed by Worcester architect Stephen C. Earle . The museum formally opened in 1898 with the Rev. Daniel Merriman as its first president. The museum's collection then consisted largely of plaster casts of "antique and Renaissance" sculptures, as well as

476-471: The craftsmen Paul Revere , Edward Winslow, and Nathanial Hurd, constituted the nucleus of the American collections. The Worcester Art Museum operates on a $ 10M annual budget and is governed by an active 25-member Board of Trustees, made up of local, national, and international members with expertise in finance, investment, museum management, art history, education, and real estate development. In addition, it has

510-432: The eight partners would hold weekly meetings on a Thursday to discuss their projects and be open to design input and ideas. However, as the firm grew larger there were many more people on a team and it was more difficult to consolidate into one group. Therefore, many other "groups" of architects within the firm were formed and carried out the same original objective. The position of the firm's president would be rotated amongst

544-538: The entire campus for the University of Baghdad , from 1958 to 1963. Only a few of Gropius' designs survived into the campus' final iteration, the faculty tower, a few classroom buildings, and the Open Mind monument. The project was met with both financial and political difficulties over several years which hampered a timely completion. TAC's other work included many corporate, government, and recreational buildings in both

578-675: The firm had been losing money in unbuilt designs, especially in the Middle East . TAC was bankrupt and closed in April 1995. In response, many archives and architectural libraries worked fast to retrieve TAC's drawings and records. The majority of these are now stored in the Rotch Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . While the innovative process the TAC architects believed so deeply

612-570: The institutions. The Worcester Art Museum received many mosaics including the Worcester Hunt , which is now installed in the Renaissance Court's floor. On May 17, 1972, the museum suffered a major theft of artwork. Two men wearing masks entered the museum just before closing. The two men stole The Brooding Woman and Head of a Woman by Paul Gauguin , Mother and Child by Pablo Picasso , and St. Bartholomew, then attributed to Rembrandt ,

646-463: The meantime, major works from the Higgins collection are on view in galleries throughout the museum, alongside Greek, Roman, Asian, and European works of art. The Worcester Art Museum started as a small three-story building, designed by Stephen C. Earle of Earle & Fisher , and constructed by Norcross Brothers in 1897–98.[4] Very little of the exterior of this original building can be viewed due to

680-421: The multiple expansions the museum has undertaken. From the start this was the expectation, as Stephen Salisbury and his architects planned the original building as the southern component of a larger structure, five times the size, which would have a central courtyard and front onto Salisbury Street. The first expansion was a rear wing in 1920–21, designed by one of the original architects, Clellan Waldo Fisher , in

714-519: The museum purchased a 12th-century French chapter house that was originally part of the Benedictine Priory of St. John at Bas-Nueil, in the commune of Berrie, Vienne in France . Installed in 1932, and linked to the museum in 1933 via the grand Renaissance Court, the chapter house was the first medieval building ever transported from Europe to America.[13] The remaining portion of the priory at Bas-Nueil

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748-681: The museum. He also bequeathed $ 3 million to the museum. Salisbury dedicated part of his time and economic resources to the research and popularization of the Mayan culture in the Yucatan Peninsula . He wrote a number of articles in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society about the subject, such as: The Mayas, the sources of their culture , The statue of Chac Mool , Terracota figures from Isla Mujeres , The K'atun of

782-561: The professional world and lend notability to the firm, they sought to add a senior practitioner. John Harkness pitched the idea of joining the Architects' Collaborative to Walter Gropius , who had asked Harkness to teach a master's class at Harvard . Walter Gropius agreed and became the eighth member of the group. Other principals came to include Richard Brooker, Alex Cvijanović , Herbert Gallagher, William Geddis, Roland Kluver, Peter Morton and H. Morse Payne, Jr. The idea of "collaboration"

816-679: The scope of the projects became more complex, and an office in Rome was opened in the 1960s, which oversaw projects primarily in Europe and the Middle East . This was followed by the opening of an office in San Francisco in 1985. Gropius was a part of TAC until his death in 1969 at age 86. The group continued on, but the firm fell into financial problems in the 1980s. This was largely due to TAC being unable to pay expenses which they owed to various financial institutions and other corporations. Among other things,

850-512: The search to get it back) See also: Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts Stephen Salisbury III Stephen Salisbury III (1835–1905), also referred to as Stephen Salisbury Jr. , was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician. The son of a wealthy landowner, Salisbury helped manage the family's extensive properties and businesses in Worcester County, Massachusetts . Like his father, Salisbury served in

884-586: The senior partners. TAC's initial work consisted of residential projects, mainly single-family houses. The most notable design was Six Moon Hill in Lexington, Massachusetts , a community dwelling in which several of the houses were the residences of the founding partners, excluding Gropius. Another one of TAC's specialties in this period was school buildings, which included many elementary and secondary public schools throughout Massachusetts and New England . TAC also designed many buildings for universities, among which

918-458: The style of the earlier buildings, are complementary to them in material and color. In November 2015, the museum unveiled a new walkway ramp at the Salisbury Street entrance. Designed by Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY Architects, the bridge-like structure boldly combines contemporary design with the museum's 1933 Beaux-Arts exterior while making the historic main entrance fully accessible. In 1927,

952-597: The war at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York, and later, John Harkness worked with Jean Fletcher for Saarinen and Swanson in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan the firm started by Eliel Saarinen . Jean Fletcher and Sarah Harkness had both studied at the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture . This group of friends were committed to forming a collaborative practice. To help them navigate

986-590: Was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1893 to 1895. In 1896, along with a group of prominent citizens of Worcester, he founded the Worcester Art Museum . In 1900, he erected the Bancroft Tower , in honor of George Bancroft , a friend of Salisbury's father. Salisbury died from pneumonia at his home in Worcester on November 16, 1905, leaving his extensive collection of mostly American art to

1020-741: Was designated a monument historique in 1988. Decorating the Renaissance Court floor is unequivocally one of Worcester's greatest ancient treasures – a group of Antioch mosaics dating from the first through the sixth century A.D, which was excavated at Antioch in Syria. In addition to the Roman, mosaic-laden, Renaissance court and French chapter house, strengths of the permanent collection include collections of European and North American painting, prints, photographs, and drawings; Asian art; Greek and Roman sculpture and mosaics; and Contemporary art. European paintings include some Flemish Renaissance paintings, an El Greco ,

1054-592: Was not until 1970, thirty years later, when the Higgins Education Wing, designed by The Architects Collaborative , was added. This building added studios, classrooms, exhibition spaces and a new main entrance. The most recent major addition was the Frances L. Hiatt Wing, added in 1983 on the east side of the original building. Designed by Irwin A. Regent & Associates of Worcester, it is intended for special exhibitions. These later buildings, though they do not match

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1088-527: Was the Harvard Graduate Center , a small campus of dormitories and a building devoted to student activities. King Faisal II had a bidding process for the redesign of the city of Bagdad in order to turn into a busting urban center, the process included many popular postwar architects including Frank Lloyd Wright , Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier , Josep Lluís Sert , and Alvar Aalto . Gropius, alongside The Architects Collaborative designed and planned

1122-400: Was the basis of TAC. As described by McMillen, conforming to the ideal of anonymity helped bind the office together. It was carried out in that an entire group of architects have their input on a project, rather than putting an emphasis on individualism. There would be a "partner-in-charge", who would meet with clients and have the final decision of what goes into the design. Originally, each of

1156-666: Was well respected for its broad range of designs, being considered one of the most notable firms in post-war modernism. Norman Fletcher , Louis McMillen , Robert McMillan , and Ben Thompson first laid the conceptual foundation for what became the Architects Collaborative while they were classmates at Yale University , where they discussed forming "the World Collaborative," which would be an ideal office combining painting, sculpture, and architecture. Upon graduation, Norman Fletcher worked with John Harkness during

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