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Article: Museum of Modern Art
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, established and incorporated in 1929. It is privately supported. Alfred H.
Barr
, Jr., was its first director. Operating at first in rented galleries, the museum specialized in loan shows of contemporary European and American art. A start toward its permanent collection was made with the Lillie P. Bliss bequest, which included nine Cézannes and the Daumier
Washerwoman.
Its present collection, which includes more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphics, photographs, videos, architectural drawings and models, and design objects, represents one of the finest groups of modern and contemporary art in the world. MoMA's merger ...
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