Collection
The present David Dechman Senior Curator of Photography is Roxana Marcoci, PhD. The MoMA photography collection consists of over 25,000 works by photographers, journalists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and amateurs, and is thought to be one of the most important on the earth. MoMA, which owned a 17,000 sq ft lot at fifty Museum of Art three West 53rd Street west of its existing constructing, sold it to developer Gerald D. Hines for $125 million in January 2007. Work on the tower was delayed due to a lack of funding following the Great Recession. On April 15, 1958, a fireplace on the second flooring destroyed an 18-foot-long (5.5 m) Monet Water Lilies portray .
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel LeutzeThe museum’s collection of American art returned to view in new galleries on January 16, 2012. The new installation supplies guests with the historical past of American art from the 18th by …
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