Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation Tour
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September 12, 2019 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | |||||
Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation Tour | |||||
526 Laguardia Place | |||||
NY | |||||
Join us for a guided tour of the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, the award-winning historic home, studio and art collections of sculptor Chaim Gross in the heart of Greenwich Village. The tour will explore three floors of the historic LaGuardia Place building, including Gross's first-floor sculpture studio and gallery, renovated in 1963 by the artist and later restored in 2017-18, as well as the Foundation's special exhibition space on the second floor. The third floor houses the Grosses' living and dining space featuring hundreds of works from their extensive private art collection, including important American paintings by Marsden Hartley, Willem De Kooning, Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence, and others, installed by the artist with his African, Pre-Columbian, Oceanic, and decorative arts and preserved as it was during his lifetime. ![]() Photo by Eliot Elisofon About the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation First established in 1974 with donations from over two dozen close friends and supporters of American artist Chaim Gross (1902-91), including Joseph H. Hirshhorn and Roy R. Neuberger, the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization in 1989. The Foundation is located in the couple's historic Greenwich Village townhouse and the artist's studio space at 526 LaGuardia Place, and opened its doors to the public in 1994. In 2009, the Foundation expanded its activities and opened to the public the building's third floor, comprised ![]() The Foundation stewards an extensive collection of over 10,000 objects that includes Gross's sculptures, drawings, and prints; a photographic archive; and Gross's large personal collection of African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian, American, and European art that remains installed in the townhouse as Gross had it during his lifetime. Since 2009 the Foundation has organized original exhibitions both onsite and at local and national venues on Chaim Gross and the history of American art. The Foundation also hosts public lectures and readings by major contemporary writers, poets and scholars. 1.5 CE credits FEE:
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