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01/03/2002
M. Webb
Ankeney Quoted in American Art Review Dec 2001
What a great pleasure to read the first paragraph of the article "Dallas Museum of Art" by Eleanor Jones Harvey and Lyle C. Gray in the December 2001 issue of American Art Review:
"Shortly after his arrival in 1932, Dr. John S. Ankeney, the first professional director of the Dallas Museum of Art, observed:
'Nature made Dallas rich, Time will make her powerful, but only Art an make her great.'
He well understood the role of a mahor art museum to give focus to a city's cultural aspirations, particularly a young ambitios city like Dallas. The DMA is presently the largest encyclopedic art museum in the southern half of the United States..."
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