Woodmere Art Museum , located in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , has a collection of paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs focusing on artists from the Delaware Valley and includes works by Thomas Pollock Anshutz , Severo Antonelli , Jasper Francis Cropsey ( The Spirit of Peace ), Joan Wadleigh Curran , Daniel Garber , Edward Moran , Violet Oakley , Herbert Pullinger , Edward Willis Redfield , Nelson Shanks , Jessie Willcox Smith , Benjamin West ( The Fatal Wounding of Sir Philip Sidney ), Philip Jamison , Barbara Bullock and N. C. Wyeth ( Anthony and Mr. Bonnyfeather ).
5-579: The collection includes the Violet Oakley lunette paintings of The Child and Tradition , Youth and the Arts , and Man and Science . Woodmere provides art classes for adults and children and conducts a variety of special events and exhibitions including gallery talks, field trips, lectures, concerts and an annual juried exhibition. The museum was opened in 1940, founded by Charles Knox Smith (1845–1916), an oil and mining businessman, in his will. Smith
10-400: Is a half-moon–shaped architectural space, variously filled with sculpture, painted, glazed, filled with recessed masonry, or void. A lunette may also be segmental, and the arch may be an arc taken from an oval. A lunette window is commonly called a half-moon window , or fanlight when bars separating its panes fan out radially. If a door is set within a round-headed arch, the space within
15-581: Is also employed to describe the section of interior wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line . A system of intersecting vaults produces lunettes on the wall surfaces above a cornice. The lunettes in the structure of the Sistine Chapel ceiling inspired Michelangelo to come up with inventive compositions for the spaces. In the Neoclassical architecture of Robert Adam and his French contemporaries such as Ange-Jacques Gabriel ,
20-422: The arch above the door, masonry or glass is a lunette. If the door is a major access, and the lunette above is massive and deeply set, it may be called a tympanum . A lunette is also formed when a horizontal cornice transects a round-headed arch at the level of the imposts , where the arch springs. If the top of the lunette itself is bordered by a hood mould it can also be considered a pediment . The term
25-838: Was born in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia and began his career as a grocer's boy and as an oil wagon driver. He rose to become a partner in that oil firm and subsequently invested in his own oil brokerage and a gold and silver mining company in Mexico. Smith's collection of paintings, sculpture and antiques form the base of the permanent collection. It is housed in his Victorian mansion, Woodmere, to which Smith had added large exhibition spaces. [REDACTED] Media related to Woodmere Art Museum at Wikimedia Commons 40°04′59″N 75°13′10″W / 40.0831°N 75.2195°W / 40.0831; -75.2195 Lunette A lunette (French lunette , 'little moon')
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