Museum of Art Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art is a museum in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. The museum is privately owned and was established in 1905. The museum acquired the old Cedar Rapids Public Library building after the library moved into a new location in 1985.
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- 1905
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- Cedar Rapids
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The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art is a museum in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. The museum is privately owned and was established in 1905. The museum acquired the old Cedar Rapids Public Library building after the library moved into a new location in 1985.
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Museum of Art Cedar Rapids was founded in 1905, with headquarters in Cedar Rapids. It is a member of Association of Midwest Museums and North American Reciprocal Museum Association.
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Overview
The current home of the museum, designed by post-modern architect Charles Moore, was built adjoining the old library in 1989. The mission of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art is to excite, engage, and educate its community and visitors through its collection, exhibitions and programs.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Cedar Rapids Museum of Art • Established — 1905 • Type — Art museum • Location — 410 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa • Website — www.crma.org
2008 flood
2008 flood
• Illustration — Image of the 2008 flood In 2008, the downtown of Cedar Rapids was devastated by the worst flood in the city’s recorded history. The lower storage areas and basements of the Museum were severely damaged by flooding that also threatened the exhibition spaces. The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art had just installed a $200,000 art storage system in its basement six months before the June floods. The Museum’s collection was moved to the higher levels and none of the artwork is known to have been damaged.
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Museum of Art Cedar Rapids is associated with United States. Recorded from 1905.
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Museum of Art Cedar Rapids established.
1905
Museum of Art Cedar Rapids is recorded from 1905.
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• Illustration — Young Corn from the Grant Wood collection The museum has significant collections from several prominent Iowa artists. The 63000 sqft museum displays temporary exhibitions of contemporary art and hold the world's largest collection of works by Grant Wood, Marvin Cone, and Bertha Jaques, works by Mauricio Lasansky and the Riley Collection of ancient Roman portrait busts. The Grant Wood collection includes his paintings Woman with Plants and Young Corn. In 2002, the CRMA was given the building that houses the original studio of Grant Wood. Located just three blocks from the Museum, the loft studio, known by its fictitious address of 5 Turner Alley, was designed and constructed by Wood, who lived and worked there between 1924 and 1935. It was here that he painted American Gothic (1930)—now part of the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago—and many of his most famous paintings. The Grant Wood Studio is open to the public for guided tours on Saturdays and Sundays. The Marvin Cone collection includes many of his best-known landscapes and abstracts. Cone was a collaborator and friend of Grant Wood. The museum also includes significant pieces by Mauricio Lasansky, Malvina Hoffman, Ann Royer, Carl Van Vechten and many others.
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- 1.Cedar Rapids Museum of Art . Crma.org (2007-12-20). Retrieved on 2013-09-05.
- 2.Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Tfaoi.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-05.
- 3.View Museum Info. Museumsusa.org (2009-05-20). Retrieved on 2013-09-05.
- 4.http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/venues/Cedar_Rapids_Museum_of_Art.html
- 5.Items Owned By Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Museum Syndicate. Retrieved on 2013-09-05.
- 6.Grant Wood At 5 Turner Alley. Tfaoi.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-05.
- 7.Cedar Rapids Museum of Art . Crma.org (2007-12-20). Retrieved on 2013-09-05.
- 8.Marvin Cone Online. Artcyclopedia.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-05.
- 9.Marvin Cone Gallery . Public.coe.edu. Retrieved on 2013-09-05.
- 10.https://ecoartblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/water-in-basement-of-cedar-rapids.html
- 11.http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/cedar-rapids-flood-update-art-museum/
- 12.Des Moines Register.
- 13.Flood Recovery Update - Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Crma.org. Retrieved on 2013-09-05.
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