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It also has a distinguished collection of Chinese art and 1,600 photographs, with seminal works representing photography's major developments.

With a distinguished collection of American and European art, particularly French Impressionist paintings, the Clark looks like a formal art museum, but its 140-acre campus offers hiking trails and picnicking.

In its opening scene, Simon Strulovitch – "a rich, furious, easily hurt philanthropist with on-again off-again enthusiasms, a distinguished collection of 20th-century Anglo-Jewish art … and a daughter going off the rails" – encounters Shylock in a Cheshire graveyard, transported to 21st-century England, but otherwise much as Shakespeare left him.

There is a distinguished collection of learned patterns; all other patterns are called derived.

It is owned by the Bettoja family, which also runs the Mediterraneo across the street, and is done throughout the public rooms in fin de siècle décor, rich in reds and golds, with a distinguished collection of paintings from the Risorgimento period of Italy's unification, including a self-portrait of painter-statesman Massimo d'Azeglio himself.

Lillian had an artists eye for photography: she built a distinguished collection that included works of Fred Picker, Paul Strand, Eugene Atget, Edward Weston, Alfred Steiglitz, Dorothea Lange, and Paul Caponigro, among others.

This twist is just one more example of the originality and wit Barrett demonstrates throughout a most distinguished collection of stories.

THE Shelburne Museum a complex of 38 historic houses on 45 acres on the shores of Lake Champlain -- has long been known as Vermont's Smithsonian for its distinguished collection of American folk art.

Dooky Chase ultimately grew into two adjacent shotgun houses, creating more room for, among other things, Chase's distinguished collection of mid- and late-twentieth century African-American art.

THE Accademia Carrara in Bergamo holds one of Italy's most distinguished collections of Venetian painting.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), museum campus in Los Angeles with distinguished collections of Asian (Indian, Tibetan, Nepalese), Islamic, medieval, Latin American, European, and modern art.