Sentence examples for had no works from inspiring English sources
A spokeswoman for the Art Institute of Chicago, Erin Hogan, said the museum had no works in its collection donated by Mr. MacLean, although he recently pledged $5 million for the endowment campaign for the Art Institute school.
When Alfred Barr, the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, wrote in a 1934 catalogue essay that the Metropolitan had no "works" (he meant paintings) by Gauguin, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Rousseau, Matisse, Derain, Picasso, Dunoyer de Segonzac, or Modigliani, Herbert Winlock, the Met's director, sent a note to Bryson Burroughs, the paintings curator.
They chose, among others, a pen-and-ink character study by Tiepolo that differed from other drawings by him already in the collection, and a Redouté watercolor of plums chosen for its sheer beauty and because the Frick had no works by that botanical artist.
But there was PHILIPPE DE MONTEBELLO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, standing at a podium in its candle-lighted Temple of Dendur, announcing that the museum had no works by Donatello, Verrocchio or Caillebotte, and scarcely any archaic jades, a high point of Chinese art.
