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unusual facts about Albright-Knox Art Gallery



Albright

Albright College, a liberal arts college located in Reading, Pennsylvania

Albright Institute of Archaeological Research

Today, the Albright Institute is one of three separately incorporated institutes affiliated with the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), the others being the American Center of Oriental Research –ACOR- in Amman, Jordan, and the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute –CAARI- in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Albright Peak

Albright Peak is the only mountain peak named for Horace M. Albright, the second director of the National Park Service.

Albright Stonebridge Group

Albright Stonebridge Group has strategic partners with several firms, among them Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP, an international law firm based in Washington, D.C.; Palacio y Asociados, based in Madrid, Spain; Joschka Fischer & Company, based in Berlin, Germany; and Bespoke Approach, based in Adelaide, Australia.

Carol Heiss

However, at the following World Figure Skating Championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, Heiss defeated Albright for the title; it was the first of her five consecutive world titles.

Edmund A. Walsh

On May 29, 2012, both Karski (posthumously) and Albright received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama.

Eugene Kingman

Early in his career (he was in his third year at Yale), he was commissioned by Horace M. Albright to paint seven paintings of park scenes at Sequoia, Mt. Rainier, Grand Teton, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Crater Lake.

Hazel Henderson

She has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara) and held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California (Berkeley).

Jean Hélion

Hélion's work is in many French museums, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, and the Tate Gallery, London.

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

His work has been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY; The Getty, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.

Joseph Berg Esenwein

He was president of Albright Collegiate Institute in 1895-96, and in the following year held the position of educational director of the Y. M. C. A. at Washington Heights, New York City.

Joseph Medill Patterson Albright

Albright is the scion of a media empire, the grandson and namesake of Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News who had rivaled William Randolph Hearst in the 1930s.

Mallinckrodt General Clinical Research Center

In the 1940s, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., head of the Mallinckrodt Chemical Company and a college friend of Albright's, contributed enough money to fund three additional inpatient beds on the unit.

Matthew 5:14

Albright and Mann note that Cicero described Rome as light to the world, but that it is unlikely that this verse borrows from him.

My Little Margie

Vern Albright is the vice-president of the investment firm of Honeywell and Todd, where his bosses are George Honeywell (Clarence Kolb) and Todd (George Meader).

Portrait of Seymour H. Knox

It was donated by the families of his two sons, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour H. Knox III and Mrs. and Mrs. Northrup R. Knox, to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in honor of Seymour H. Knox II for his 60 year contribution as a member of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.

Q-D-Š

William Foxwell Albright believed that Qudšu (meaning "holiness") was a common Canaanite appellation for the goddess Asherah, and Albright's mentor Frank Moore Cross claimed qdš was used as a divine epithet for both Asherah and the Ugaritic goddess, Athirat.

Robert Nickle

Robert Nickle's work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Indianapolis Museum, Smithsonian Museum, Carnegie Institute Museum and the National Gallery in Washington.

Susan Rothenberg

Recent exhibitions include a retrospective organized by Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo (1992–1994), which traveled to Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Chicago, and Seattle (1992); a retrospective at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Monterrey, Mexico (1996); a survey of prints and drawings presented by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (1998); and Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1999).

Tetsuo Ochikubo

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D. C.), and the Honolulu Museum of Art are among the public collections holding works by Tetsuo Ochikubo.

The American Wolves

During the match Sweeney tried to attack Kevin Steen with his boot, but Albright chased him to the back and the champions retained.

Thomas Scheibitz

Scheibitz' works are included in major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.


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