AlbrightKnox Art Gallery

The AlbrightKnox Art Gallery is an

art museum located at 1285 Elmwood
Avenue, Buffalo, New York in Delaware
Park. The gallery is a major showplace
for modern art and contemporary art. It
is located directly across the street
from Buffalo State College.

History

The parent organization of the Albright

Knox Art Gallery is the Buffalo Fine Arts
Academy, founded in 1862. It is one of the
oldest public arts institutions in the United
States. In 1890, Buffalo entrepreneur and
philanthropist, John J. Albright, a wealthy
Buffalo industrialist, began the
construction of the Albright Art Gallery for
the Academy. The building was designed
by prominent local architect Edward
Brodhead Green. It was originally
intended to be used as the Fine Arts
Pavilion for the Pan-American Exposition
in 1901, but delays in its construction
caused it to remain uncompleted until
1905.
The museum first began discussing a
possible expansion in 2001. In 2012, the
board commissioned the architectural firm
Snhetta to produce a master plan for
future growth.[

Exhibitions
In 1978, the AlbrightKnox Art
Gallery's exhibition on the work
of Richard Diebenkorn was
chosen to represent the United
States at the 28th Venice
Biennale. In 1988, the museum
again won the competition to
organize the exhibition
representing the United States in
Venice; the museum's curator
Michael G. Auping proposed
media artist Jenny Holzer

Collection

The AlbrightKnox Art Gallery

has long operated not by
collecting artists work in depth
but by trying to acquire key
works.[4]The gallery's
collection includes several
pieces spanning art throughout
the centuries. Impressionistic
and Post-Impressionistic
styles can be found in works
by artists of the nineteenth
century such as Paul Gauguin
and Vincent van Gogh.

 More modern pieces showing styles of abstract

expressionism, pop art, and art of the 1970s through the
end of the century can also be found represented by
artists such as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford
Still, and Andy Warhol. Additionally, the gallery is also
very rich in various pieces of post-war American and
European art; [6] their contemporary collection includes
pieces by artists such as Kiki Smith, Allan Graham, Georg
Baselitz, John Connell, and Per Kirkeby. The museum
bought Anselm Kiefer's large-scale Die Milchstrasse (The
Milkyway) (198587) in 1988 to celebrate its 125th
anniversary.[7]
The Albright-Knoxs current exhibition space can
accommodate only 200 works just 3% of its 6,740piece collection.

William Hogarth, The

Lady's Last Stake, 1759

Joshua Reynolds Cupid

as Link Boy, c. 17711777

Jacques-Louis
David,Portrait of
Jacques-Franois
Desmaisons, 1782

Thomas Gainsborough,Portrait of Miss Evans, c. 17861790