Record #:

32914

Author(s):

Not Given

Abstract:

Over one-hundred paintings purchased by the State Art Commission in 1952 with the General Assembly’s one-million-dollar appropriation of 1947 included several well-known Nativity scenes by European masters. One of the most important of them was Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens’, “The Holy Family with St. Anne.” A donation from the Phifer family of North Carolina to the State Art Society was also important in broadening the collection, which is now at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Source:

We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 41 Issue 12, Dec 1983, p16, il

Subject(s):

Art, European; Art and state; North Carolina Museum of Art--Collections