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ROANOKE, Va. - It was a fortuitous circumstance: An aging medium- sized city was the right place at the right time for a bequest of coveted art that led to its new avant-garde museum.
American realist Thomas Eakins did most of his work in Philadelphia, but his last living heir lived in Roanoke and had some of his portraits and personal effects. Museums elsewhere had designs on the 19th-century collection, but Peggy Macdowell Thomas decided she wanted her Eakins paintings to remain in Roanoke.See the full content of this document
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New Va. Museum Celebrates Art's Wide Range
Roanoke wanted them too, enough to build them a museum.
When excited arts supporters learned of the 2001 bequest, they decided they needed a better showcase for the collection than...See the full content of this document
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