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 Albright Art Gallery - Buffalo, NY Posted by:  Rayman
N 42° 55.942 W 078° 52.568
17T E 673305 N 4755492
The Albright Art Gallery, now known as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, is a world-class gallery featuring many contemporary works of art.
Waymark Code: WM28RJ
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 09/23/2007
Views: 63
The following is an excerpt from New York: A Guide to the Empire State in the Delaware Park section of the Buffalo points of interest.
The Albright Art Gallery, entrance on Elmwood Ave., is an impressive white marble building, given in 1905 to the people of Buffalo by John Joseph Albright. The building was designed by Green and Wicks of Buffalo. The central block with a pedimented portico is flanked by colonnaded galleries that lead to pedimented end gallery wings. The structure illustrates the monumental neoclassic manner, here rendered with strict adherence to the ornamental details of the Greek Ionic style. Each of the two side porches has four caryatids by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, directly inspired by those of the Erechtheum in Athens. The Elmwood Avenue façade includes a semicircular colonnade of 13 columns. In the interior, the large central Court of Sculpture is adorned with columns and pilasters; smaller rooms lead beyond to large galleries and, in the northwest corner, to the library, furnished in the modern manner.
The permanent collection of the gallery includes pairs of portraits by Gilbert Stuart and Ralph Earle, single paintings by Bellows, Inness, Burchfield, Speicher, and others, and a small collection of French masterpieces. The sculpture collection contains work by Brancusi, Maillol, Mestrovic, Epstein, Bourdelle, Noguchi, Haller, Despiau, Rodin, and Dobson. There are a number of outstanding individual pieces.
The gallery conducts more than a score of exhibitions yearly and carries on a number of cultural and educational services for school children and adults. It is managed by the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.
The building was originally planned to be the fine arts pavilion for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, however it was completed too late. An additional wing was added in 1962 to the south of the building, and the entire complex was renamed the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Today, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery enjoys a worldwide reputation as an outstanding center of modern art. Thomas Hoving, art historian and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, recently said that "the Albright-Knox Art Gallery should be on everyone's list to see, for it's an overwhelming art experience. Small, intimate, and seductive, the museum has one of the most thumping modern and contemporary collections in the world."¹ Collections include works by Gorky, Pollock, Warhol, Johns, Gauguin, van Gogh, Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Miró, Mondrian, Rodchenko, and others.
1. Albright-Knox Art Gallery website.
Book: New York
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 211
Year Originally Published: 1940
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