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Article: Museum accessions.(Florida State University)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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It is September again, the beginning of the school year in many parts of the country and so a good time to look at some of the recent acquisitions made by college and university art galleries. In 2000 Florida State University in Sarasota assumed the governance of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, part of the largest university museum complex in the nation. Having made a fortune in the family-owned circus business and later in real estate and the railroads, John and Mable Ringling established the art museum in 1927 and eventually supplied it with hundreds of paintings and decorative arts. The collection now numbers more than ten thousand objects from around the ...