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Hill Art Foundation

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Hill Art Foundation Building, View from High Line

Hill Art Foundationis a public exhibition and education space located inChelsea, Manhattan,New York City.[1]The foundation, founded byJ. Tomilson and Janine Hill,opened to the public in February 2019.[2]Located on10th Avenueand West 24th Street inPeter Marino'sGetty Building,the 650 m2(7,000 sq ft) space[3]exhibits works from the Hill Art Foundation collection as well as works on loan.[4]The Foundation is free and open to the public and will offer educational programming for the public as well as for New York City high school students.[5]

Architecture

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The foundation has two main galleries, one of them double-height, overlooking theHigh Line,and some smaller spaces also designed for showing art.[6]

Works

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The Hill Collection focuses on in-depth collecting within four main categories: Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, Old Master paintings, Modern Masters, and Contemporary artists. Works from the Hill Collection have been loaned to prominent museums worldwide, including the 2014 exhibition Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection at The Frick Collection which featured Renaissance and Baroque bronzes and a selection of Post-War works from the collection.[7]

In addition to rotating exhibitions of works from the Hill Collection and other domains, select works from the Hill Collection are permanently installed.Drains,a 1990 sculpture in castpewterbyRobert Gober,is installed inset into the walls of the gallery,Untitled,a monumental 2013 sculpture inbronzeand copper-plated steel byChristopher Woolis installed on an outdoor terrace, andThe Creation and the Expulsion from Paradise,a 1533 series ofstained glasspanels byValentin Bouschis installed opposite the windows overlooking West 24th Street.[8]

References

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  1. ^"Hill Art Foundation".Hill Art Foundation.
  2. ^Wool, Christopher (6 March 2019)."Christopher Wool's paintings and photographs at the new Hill Art Foundation".New York Times.Retrieved7 March2019.
  3. ^Julie Belcove (30 November 2018),Art collector J Tomilson Hill: ‘It’s about what I like’Financial Times.
  4. ^Lotty, Pogrebin (July 28, 2016)."A Billionaire Is Opening a Private Art Museum in Manhattan".New York Times.RetrievedJuly 29,2016.
  5. ^"Hill Art Foundation".Hill Art Foundation.
  6. ^Julie Belcove (30 November 2018),Art collector J Tomilson Hill: ‘It’s about what I like’Financial Times.
  7. ^"Hill Art Foundation".Hill Art Foundation.
  8. ^"Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained".Hill Art Foundation.Retrieved2023-05-02.

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