The Park Avenue Armory

The Winter Antiques Show brings the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to Newyork as a loan exhibition

The Winter Antiques Show brings thevirginia Museum of Fine Arts to Newyork as a loan exhibition

January 19-28

Nearly a century ago, Judge John Barton Payne gave 50 works and a $100,000 matching grant for the founding of an art museum.working together withvirginia governor John Garland Pollard, the pair established a temporary installation, with thevirginia

Museum of Fine Arts in its current form opening its doors in 1936.

Collecting for the Commonwealth/preserving the Nation: Celebrating a Century of Art Patronage at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts celebrates the collection that has accrued since Payne’s first 1919 donation and will be on view as a loan exhibition at the Winter Antiques Show.the museum’s director Alex Nyerges notes,“it seems particularly fitting that we should recognize these patrons at the Winter Antiques Show and commemorate their philanthropic spirit with support of the East Side House Settlement.”

With works made by Tiffany, René Lalique and Jean Schlumberger, as well as paintings by

Robert Stubb and John Singer Sargent, on display, the exhibition represents the best of the museum, including remarkable gifts from the James W. and

The Park Avenue Armory • 643 Park Avenue • New York, NY 10065 t: (212) 987-0446 • www.winterantiquesshow.com

Frances Gibson Mcglothlin Foundation and works from the Collection of Paul Mellon and Sydney and