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3 unusual facts about Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building


Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building

It was built as a memorial to the Museum's founder, Electra Havemeyer Webb, and her husband, James Watson Webb.

Individual craftspeople and designers like Louis Comfort Tiffany, whose work can be seen in the Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building continued to work for upper class patrons, but inexpensive, factory-made chairs, tables, beds, and stands flooded and eager market of middle-class Victorians.

It features work by such western artists as Charles Russell and Harry Jackson; these artists, who often served as cowhands and guides of the western plains, modeled their work after real people and personal experiences.



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