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 . In 1971 the American entrepreneur Walter Percy Chrysler, Jr. , whose wife Jean Outland Chrysler was a native of Norfolk, bequeathed his collection of works of art to the museum. The museum was then renamed the Chrysler Museum of Art. The museum also manages two historic buildings in Norfolk, the Moses Myers House and the Norfolk History Museum at the Willoughby-Baylor House .
The museum includes works by Tintoretto , Giambattista Pittoni , 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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Coordinates: 36 ° 51 '23.8 " N , 76 ° 17' 34.5" W.