The Wichita Art Museum is an art museum located in Wichita, Kansas , United States.
28-714: The museum was established in 1915, when Louise Caldwell Murdock ’s Will which created a trust to start the Roland P. Murdock Collection of art in memory of her husband. The trust would purchase art for the City of Wichita by “American painters, potters, sculptors, and textile weavers.” The collection includes works by Mary Cassatt , Arthur G. Dove , Thomas Eakins , Robert Henri , Douglas Abdell , Winslow Homer , Edward Hopper , Yasuo Kuniyoshi , John Marin , Paul Meltsner , Horace Pippin , Maurice Prendergast , Albert Pinkham Ryder and Charles Sheeler . The Museum's lobby features
56-469: A ceiling and chandelier made by Dale Chihuly . The museum opened in 1935 with art borrowed from other museums. The first work in the Murdock Collection was purchased in 1939. Mrs. Murdock's friend, Elizabeth Stubblefield Navas, selected and purchased works of American art for the Murdock Collection until 1962. The building was enlarged with a new lobby and two new wings in 1963. In 1964,
84-672: A Queensware (a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood ) store on North Main Street. She married Roland Pierpont Murdock in 1877 and founded the Twentieth Century Club with him in 1899 in Wichita. She served as its president until 1906. After her husband's death in 1906, she studied interior design with Frank Alvah Parsons in New York City, then returned to Wichita Kansas and designed and built
112-418: A foundation was established for the purpose of raising funds for new acquisitions. In the 1970s, the city built a new and larger climate controlled facility. In 2003, the museum finished another expansion project giving the building a total of 115,000 square feet (10,700 m). The current building was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes . Tera Hedrick, an art historian and Wichita East High School graduate,
140-549: A single e-book platform. In 2014, ProQuest acquired Pi2 Solutions, a privately owned company specializing in Drug Safety Triager (DST) & Product Literature Database (PLD) systems for the biopharmaceutical industry. The company aligned Pi2 Solutions with its ProQuest Dialog corporate information service. In 2015, ProQuest acquired SiPX and Coutts Information Services, including the MyiLibrary platform and
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196-515: A web-based citation manager of which it had been part owner since 2001. RefWorks was merged with ProQuest's existing COS business to form RefWorks/COS. Also in 2008, ProQuest acquired Dialog , a major online database firm, from Thomson Reuters . In 2010, ProQuest acquired two properties from LexisNexis, the Congressional Information Service (CIS) and University Publications of America (UPA). CIS produced one of
224-416: Is an Ann Arbor, Michigan -based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene Power . ProQuest is known for its applications and information services for libraries, providing access to dissertations, theses, ebooks, newspapers, periodicals, historical collections, governmental archives, cultural archives, and other aggregated databases. This content
252-503: The Parsons School of Fine and Applied Art Interior Architecture (1906) Occupation Architect Buildings Wichita Public Library , Caldwell-Murdock Building, Murdock Theater Projects 20th Century Club of Wichita Louise Caldwell Murdock (1857–1915) was an American interior designer / architect. Louise's father, J.E. Caldwell brought his family to Wichita from New York in 1871 and opened
280-431: The 15th century. While work continues to digitize the contents of the microfilm vault, ProQuest is already providing navigation of 125 billion digital pages, including nearly 20 million pages of newspaper content dating from pre-Revolutionary War America. In 1999, the company name changed to Bell & Howell Information and Learning , and then in 2001 to ProQuest Information and Learning ; Bell & Howell renamed itself
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#1732793756361336-719: The American Revolution, Lineage Book, Volume 51 ^ Galland, Bess Innes. Some Recollections of Louise Caldwell Murdock, pg. 5. ^ Tharp, BD (May 2009). "Twentieth Century club celebrates 100th anniversary" (PDF) . Active Aging . p. 12 – via Bonnie Tharp. Further reading [ edit ] "Wichita Gets Gift of American Art: Paintings by 8 Well-Known Artists Purchased for Its Municipal Museum". The New York Times . September 20, 1939. p. 28. ProQuest 102914676 . Ross, Novelene (January 1, 1999). "A celebration of American painting" . USA Today . Archived from
364-499: The Caldwell Murdock building on East Douglas, which at seven floors became Wichita's tallest building. References [ edit ] ^ Linderman, Carrie (March 2012). "Womens Focus: A Local Historian's Look at National Women's History Month" . Womens Focus . ^ "State Register Listing: Twentieth Century Club" (PDF) . Kansas State Historical Society . ^ Daughters of
392-621: The Online Acquisitions and Selection Information System (OASIS). In October 2015, ProQuest acquired Ex Libris . It was to merge the Workflow Solutions division of ProQuest, which included the former Serials Solutions, into Ex Libris, with the enlarged entity to be named "Ex Libris, a ProQuest Company". In June 2016, ProQuest acquired Alexander Street Press , a provider of streaming videos and ebooks. In January 2020, ProQuest acquired Innovative Interfaces, Inc. ,
420-549: The ProQuest Company. Also in 1999, the company acquired Chadwyck-Healey , a one-time microfilm publishing company that was one of the first to produce full-text CD-ROM databases. This acquisition gave Proquest ownership of a 100+ person publishing operation based in Cambridge, England and became the basis for a substantial overseas expansion. During the 2000–2004 fiscal years, as well as the first three quarters of
448-542: The company acquired Copley Publishing Group. In 2005 three ProQuest executives formed a distribution company called National Archive Publishing Co, of XanEdu, UMI, and Digital Service Operations. The building that would house this new company stood at 300 Zeeb Road in Scio, home to nearly 6 billion pages of information. In 2006, ProQuest Company, then the parent company of ProQuest Information and Learning, sold it to Cambridge Information Group , owner of R. R. Bowker . From
476-692: The development of the company, including how University Microfilms assisted the OSS during World War II . This work mainly involved filming maps and European newspapers so they could be shipped back and forth overseas more cheaply and discreetly. Power also noticed a niche market in dissertations publishing. Students were often forced to publish their own works in order to finish their doctoral degree . Dissertations could be published more cheaply as microfilm than as books. ProQuest still publishes so many dissertations that its Dissertations and Theses collection (formerly called Digital Dissertations) has been declared
504-477: The dissertations market grew, the company expanded into filming newspapers and periodicals . The company's main newspaper database is ProQuest Newsstand. In 1962, Xerox acquired the company for 51,750 shares of Xerox common stock, worth about $ 7.9 million. Under Xerox's ownership, the name of the company changed several times, from University Microfilms to Xerox University Microfilms , to University Microfilms International , then shortened to UMI . In 1985, it
532-544: The following names: Eugene Power , a 1927 BA and 1930 MBA graduate of the University of Michigan , founded the company as University Microfilms in 1938, preserving works from the British Museum on microfilm. By June 1938, Power worked in two rented rooms from a downtown Ann Arbor funeral parlor, specializing in microphotography to preserve library collections. In his autobiography Edition of One , Power details
560-575: The official U.S. off-site repository of the Library of Congress . The idea of universal adoption of microfilm publication of doctoral dissertations was furthered considerably by two articles researched and written by a then recent recipient of the doctorate in history at Stanford University. Vaughn Davis Bornet seized on the idea and published "Doctoral Dissertations and the Stream of Scholarship" and "Microfilm Publication of Doctoral Dissertations". As
588-912: The operational concept behind the acquisition was integrating ProQuest's products and applications with Web of Science . ProQuest was founded as a microfilm publisher. It began publishing doctoral dissertations in 1939, has published more than 3 million searchable dissertations and theses, and is designated as an offsite digital archive for the United States Library of Congress . The company's scholarly content includes dissertations and theses, primary source material, ebooks, scholarly journals, historical and current newspapers and periodicals, data sources, and other content of interest to researchers. ProQuest Video Preservation and Discovery Service, allows libraries to preserve and provide access to their proprietary audio and video collections. In May 2014, ProQuest LLC also operated businesses under
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#1732793756361616-993: The original on April 10, 2016 . Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via HighBeam Research. Updike, R. (February 3, 1999). "At TAM: Glimpses of a Fertile Era in Art". Seattle Times . Wichita Carnegie Library: A Vision Restored ; a Landmark Preserved . Fidelity Bank. 2010. Muhr, Jeffrey, ed. (2014). "Louise Caldwell Murdock (1858-1915)". Biography and Genealogy Master Index . Gale. Authority control databases [REDACTED] International VIAF FAST WorldCat National United States Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louise_Caldwell_Murdock&oldid=1183640449 " Categories : American women architects American interior designers 1857 births 1915 deaths American women interior designers Hidden category: Articles with hCards ProQuest ProQuest LLC
644-445: The time of this sale, this article follows the history of ProQuest Information and Learning, not ProQuest Company. (ProQuest Company subsequently renamed itself to Voyager Learning Company, and later became part of Cambium Learning Group . ) In 2007, ProQuest Information and Learning was merged with CSA to form ProQuest CSA. Later that year it was renamed ProQuest LLC. In 2008, ProQuest LLC acquired complete ownership of RefWorks ,
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756-455: Was hired as curator in 2017 after serving in an interim role. In January 2020, the museum announced that it would begin renovation on its main entrance and lobby. Louise Caldwell Murdock Louise Caldwell Murdock Born 1857 Caneada, New York Died 1915 Wichita, Kansas Nationality American Alma mater Studied with Frank Alvah Parsons , founder of
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