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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Kansas City, Missouri, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1930-1933 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorWight and Wighten_US
dc.date1930-1933en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-09T19:20:57Z
dc.date.available2013-01-09T19:20:57Z
dc.date.issued1930-1933en_US
dc.identifier181693en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1959en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/88311
dc.descriptionRelief on the east elevation; The building was designed by prominent Kansas City architects Wight and Wight (who also designed the approaches to the Liberty Memorial and the Kansas governor's mansion, Cedar Crest). Ground was broken in 1930, and the museum opened on December 11, 1933. The building's classical Beaux-Arts architecture style was modeled on the Cleveland Museum of Art. Thomas Wight, the brother who did most of the design work for the building said: "We are building the museum on classic principles because they have been proved by the centuries. A distinctly American principle appropriate for such a building may be developed, but, so far, everything of that kind is experimental. One doesn’t experiment with two-and-a-half million dollars." A third of the west wing was left unfinished when the building opened. Part of it was completed in 1941. The rest of the building was completed after World War II. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/8/2010)en_US
dc.format.mediumlimestoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectArt museumsen_US
dc.subjectBeaux-Artsen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectNeoclassicalen_US
dc.titleNelson-Atkins Museum of Arten_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-WW-NAM-A12en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeart museumen_US
dc.contributor.displayWight and Wight (American architectural firm, active ca. 1916-1945)en_US


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