Sentence examples for acquisitions of works from inspiring English sources

She has also been responsible for important acquisitions of works by artists like Beuys, Donald Judd, Robert Gober and Matthew Barney.

He has also been responsible for the Walker's acquisitions of works by popular living artists, including Doug Aitken, David Hammons, Thomas Hirshhorn, Pierre Huyghe and Luc Tuymans.

He also started the departments of pre-Columbian and Primitive art and contemporary art, which under him made the museum's first acquisitions of works by Picasso, Calder, Brancusi, Klee, Giacometti and many others.

This show of more than 100 paintings celebrates the Met's acquisitions of works by School of Paris painters, going back to 1946 when Gertrude Stein bequeathed her portrait, done by Picasso in 1906.

Over the next 50 years there were new acquisitions of works by, among others, Piero della Francesca, Goya, Constable, Van Eyck, Memling, Ruysdael and Claude (the monumental "Sermon on the Mount").

Since 1998 the museum's membership has risen to 44,000 from 24,000, and its acquisitions of works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Chuck Close and Frank Stella put the institution in the top ranks of American museums of modern art.

Pretty well, judging from recent acquisitions of work by Pipilotti Rist, Matthew Barney and Cai Guo-Qiang.

Pretty well, judging by recent acquisitions of work by Pipilotti Rist, Matthew Barney and Cai Guo-Qiang.

In all, the Aldrich Purchase Fund gave 112 works to the museum, including its first acquisitions of work by Mr. Stella, Agnes Martin, Brice Marden and Tom Wesselman.

WHEN he founded the world's first museum of contemporary art here in 1853, King Ludwig I of Bavaria pioneered government-financed acquisition of works by living artists.

Beginning in 1982, Mr. Mondadori was personally involved in the acquisition of works by Gabriel García Márquez a few months before Mr. Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize.