Smurfit Art Collection
Smurfit Art Collection is a collection of art work by the businessman Michael Smurfit Sir Michael Smurfit, KBE (born 7 August 1936), is an English-born Irish businessman. In the "2010 Irish Independent Rich List" he was listed at 25th with a €368 million personal fortune. Early life Smurfit, who was born in St Helens, .... The Smurfit art collection contains work by such artists as Jack Butler Yeats, Louis le Brocquy, Sir John Lavery, Donald Teskey, Peter Collis, Martin Mooney, Norah McGuinness, and Anne Madden. The collection contains 500 pieces built up over 20 years of collection. References Private collections in the Republic of Ireland {{UK-art-display-stub ...
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Collection (museum)
A museum is distinguished by a collection of often unique objects that forms the core of its activities for exhibitions, education, research, etc. This differentiates it from an archive or library, where the contents may be more paper-based, replaceable and less exhibition oriented, or a private collection of art formed by an individual, family or institution that may grant no public access. A museum normally has a collecting policy for new acquisitions, so only objects in certain categories and of a certain quality are accepted into the collection. The process by which an object is formally included in the collection is called ''accessioning'' and each object is given a unique accession number. Museum collections, and archives in general, are normally catalogued in a collection catalogue, traditionally in a card index, but nowadays in a computerized database. Transferring collection catalogues onto computer-based media is a major undertaking for most museums. All new acquisiti ...
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