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3 unusual facts about Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building


Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building

It was built as a memorial to the Museum's founder, Electra Havemeyer Webb, and her husband, James Watson Webb.

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Individual craftspeople and designers like Louis Comfort Tiffany, whose work can be seen in the Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building continued to work for upper class patrons, but inexpensive, factory-made chairs, tables, beds, and stands flooded and eager market of middle-class Victorians.

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It features work by such western artists as Charles Russell and Harry Jackson; these artists, who often served as cowhands and guides of the western plains, modeled their work after real people and personal experiences.



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