Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Preferred Title:
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Image View:
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Side view along the south elevation
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Creator:
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Wight and Wight (American architectural firm, active ca. 1916-1945)
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Location:
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site: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Location Note:
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4525 Oak Street
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GPS:
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+39.044973-94.581009
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Date:
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1930-1933 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Beaux-Arts; Neoclassical; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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art museum
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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limestone
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architecture; Art museums; Gardens; Ionic columns; sculpture garden; sculpture court
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Description:
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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)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Five
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Identifier:
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1A1-WW-NAM-A6
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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