Chrysler Museum of Art

The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum in Norfolk, Virginia.

The museum was founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. 1971 bequeathed to the American entrepreneur Walter Percy Chrysler, Jr., his wife, Jean Outland Chrysler from Norfolk native was born, his collection of works of art to the museum. The museum was renamed it in Chrysler Museum of Art. From the museum also two historic buildings in Norfolk are managed, the Moses Myers House and the Norfolk History Museum at the Willoughby - Baylor House.

In the museum there are including works by Tintoretto, Veronese, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez, Salvator Rosa, Gianlorenzo Bernini, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Gustave Doré, Albert Bierstadt, Auguste Rodin, Mary Cassatt, Paul Gauguin, Georges Rouault, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Richard Diebenkorn, Karen LaMonte and Franz Kline.

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