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The benefactor, James
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layout. The first floor has classrooms, artist studios, lecture and event spaces, and a museum store. The rear reception area opens to the garden, part of
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heard in the state court of New York during 1900 and 1901. On
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completed the drawings of the building in mid-1903, and a drawing of the proposed building was published in the
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to design the gallery. He planned a
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The Gibbes Museum of Art has remained nearly unchanged; this postcard is dated 1907.
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