81. The art museum has a fine permanent collection that includes such notable painters of Maine scenes as Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth. 82. The Asia Society invited artists, writers, dancers and other creative folks to peruse the permanent collection and select their favorites for exhibition. 83. The budgets and gallery space of these minimuseums may be limited, but the permanent collections are often remarkable, sometimes superb. 84. The center has no permanent collection. 85. The experience of seeing them in the relatively uncrowded conditions of permanent collection galleries is certainly superior to enduring the mobs in Washington. 86. The docents spoke eloquently about Eveleth and the permanent collection pieces. 87. The entrance to the permanent collection of his work in Kawasaki is a futuristic tunnel-corridor painted hot red and bathed in red light. 88. The first floor, where the permanent collection is installed, is surrounded by glassed-in verandas. 89. The Frick also shows special exhibitions, though the main draw is its extraordinary permanent collection. 90. The entire collection will be on view in the new fifth-floor permanent collection galleries when they open in April. |