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Wichita / Stati Uniti d'America

Wichita è un comune degli Stati Uniti d'America e capoluogo della contea di Sedgwick nello Stato del Kansas. La popolazione era di 389 255 persone al censimento del 2018, il che la rende la città più popolosa dello stato e la cinquantunesima città più popolosa della nazione. L'area metropolitana di Wichita, che include le contee di Butler, Harvey, Kingman, Sedgwick, e Sumner, possiede una popolazione di 644 888 persone nel 2018. Fondata nel 1868 e incorporata nel 1870, è situata nei pressi del fiume Arkansas. È una capitale mondiale dell'industria aeronautica; vi si trovano infatti gli stabilimenti della Bombardier, Boeing, Raytheon e Cessna. Nella grande fabbrica della Boeing di Wichita durante la seconda guerra mondiale, vennero costruiti quasi la metà di tutti i superbombardieri strategici B-29 Superfortress; il programma di produzione accelerata nel gigantesco impianto di Wichita di un'arma ritenuta di importanza decisiva per l'esito della guerra, divenne noto come la battaglia del Kansas. I B-29 Superfortress furono i protagonisti degli attacchi aerei contro il Giappone del 1944-45 e in particolare del catastrofico bombardamento incendiario su Tokyo del 10 marzo 1945 e dei bombardamenti atomici di Hiroshima e Nagasaki del 6-9 agosto 1945. Nel secondo dopoguerra a Wichita sono stati costruiti anche la maggior parte dei bombardieri nucleari Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, che rimasero per tutta la Guerra fredda il pilastro fondamentale dell'arsenale dello Strategic Air Command.

Wichita Art Museum

Wichita / Stati Uniti d'America

The Wichita Art Museum is an art museum located in Wichita, Kansas, United States.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 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, 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 115,000 total square feet. In January 2020, the museum announced that it would begin renovation on its main entrance and lobby.

Ulrich Museum

Wichita / Stati Uniti d'America

The Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art is a museum located on the campus of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. The museum opened on December 7, 1974 in McKnight Art Center, where it is still located today. It is best known for the large Venetian glass and marble mosaic by Joan Miró found on the facade of the building, titled Personnage Oiseaux, a 28-by-52-foot mural on 80 panels. It is also well known for the large Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection of 80 works across 330 acres, which was named Top Ten among campus sculptures in 2006 by Public Art Review. The sculpture collection includes works by Fernando Botero, Andy Goldsworthy, Lila Katzen, Joan Miró, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Otterness, Auguste Rodin, Sophia Vari, Elyn Zimmerman, and Francisco Zuniga. The Outdoor Sculpture Collection is part of the museum's permanent collection, which contains approximately 6,500 objects. The full collection is searchable online through the Ulrich Museum Collection Portal. The museum's permanent collection includes works by Benny Andrews, Diane Arbus, Barkley Hendricks, Nan Goldin, Zhang Huan, Sol LeWitt, Joan Mitchell, Gordon Parks, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol, among many others. The collection also contains large groups of works by a number of artists, including Lee Adler, Minna Wright Citron, Gordon Parks, Marian Stephenson Patmore, and Harry Sternberg.