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New York University. Art Collection


  • [The New York University Art Collection, of which the Grey Art Gallery is now guardian, was founded in 1958 with the acquisition of Francis Picabia's Resonateur (c.1922) and Fritz Glarner's Relational Painting (1949-1950). Today the collection (which includes approximately 6,000 objects) is primarily composed of late-19th and 20th century works, ranging from Pablo Picasso's monumental public sculpture, Bust of Sylvette, to a Joseph Cornell box, Chocolat Menier, from 1952. The collection's particular strength is American painting from the 1940s to the present, with works by such well-known artists as Romare Bearden, Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Kenneth Noland, and Ad Reinhardt. European prints are also well represented, with works by Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, and Picasso, to name a few.]

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    • NYU Art Collection

  • Additional Information

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Address: 100 Washington Square East , New York , New York 10003
        • Affiliation Address:
        • City: New York
        • State: New York
        • Post Code: 10003

    • Associated Locale

        New York (N.Y.)

    • Field of Activity

      (lcsh) New York University--Art collections

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  • Sources

    • found: The New York painter, c1967:t.p. (New York University Art Collection)
    • found: New York University. Art Collection. NYU: New York University Art Collection, [1960?]
    • found: New York University. Art Collection. New York cool: painting and sculpture from the NYU Art Collection, 2008:foreword (Founded by Howard Conant in 1958 at the Washington Square campus) page 9 (By 1965 the NYU Art Collection totaled 640 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs, most of which were installed throughout the campus and, occasionally, in exhibitions at the Loeb Student Center.) page 15 (The collection has grown substantially and now numbers over 4,800 works. Approximately 800 are installed in facilities throughout the NYU campus; the remaining 4,000 are stored on site.)
    • found: NYU Grey Art Gallery website, 27 July 2017:collections page (Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art, including Iranian Art, Indian Art, and Turkish Art; The New York University Art Collection) - https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu/collections/
    • found: OCLC database, 4 August 2017(access points: New York University. Art Collection, New York University. Art Collection (New York, N.Y.), New York University. Art Collection. Loeb Student Center.)

  • General Notes

    • [The New York University Art Collection, of which the Grey Art Gallery is now guardian, was founded in 1958 with the acquisition of Francis Picabia's Resonateur (c.1922) and Fritz Glarner's Relational Painting (1949-1950). Today the collection (which includes approximately 6,000 objects) is primarily composed of late-19th and 20th century works, ranging from Pablo Picasso's monumental public sculpture, Bust of Sylvette, to a Joseph Cornell box, Chocolat Menier, from 1952. The collection's particular strength is American painting from the 1940s to the present, with works by such well-known artists as Romare Bearden, Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Kenneth Noland, and Ad Reinhardt. European prints are also well represented, with works by Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, and Picasso, to name a few.]

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  • Change Notes

    • 2006-11-29: new
    • 2017-11-11: revised

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