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- 1971-05-25
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
1971 color Richards stock footage. Hundreds of Tacoma art lovers attended the grand opening of the Tacoma Art Museum's permanent home on May 25, 1971. Thanks to the generosity of longtime members, Helen Murray and her late husband, Lowell T. Murray, Sr., the museum was able to be relocated to the former headquarters of the (National) Bank of Washington, 1123 Pacific Ave. Museum director Jon Kowalek assembled paintings from ten museums and private collections which included works by Renoir, Boudin, Gainsborough, Matisse, Pollock and Tobey. No velvet ropes or glass enclosures barred visitors from an up-close-and-personal view of the exhibits, as evidenced by the couple above. (TNT 5-26-71, A-1 - article)
Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma); Paintings; Building dedications--Tacoma--1970-1980;