-The first photo, from 1920, shows a west-facing view of the center gallery wall in the first of several additions to the Worcester Art Museum. The Florentine School "Scenes at the Coronation of the Emperor Frederick III in Rome" hangs above a cassone amongst other works. This was a load-bearing wall, and it's removal necessitated the placement of the two large support columns in the center of the room today, in it's present use as the Museum Cafe.
-Last year, several of the paintings that were chosen to hang in the newly designed [remastered] galleries were removed from the adjacent Gallery 206. This comparison shows the gallery shortly after the paintings were removed, and when new works were brought out of storage to take their place.
-The sketch depicts the 5,000 year old Ancient Sumerian "Statuette of a Man" (3000-2500 B.C.). It is one of the oldest and most intriguing objects in the WAM collection. It is the beginning "50" in the collection's "50 Centuries of Art" tagline.
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| Cafe. Worcester Art Museum. by Travis Simpkins |
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| European Galleries. Worcester Art Museum. by Travis Simpkins |
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| Sumerian Statuette. Worcester Art Museum. by Travis Simpkins |
