Qualla: Huntington Museum of Art https://qualla.com/huntington-museum-of-art en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/huntington-museum-of-art-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Huntington Museum of Art https://qualla.com/huntington-museum-of-art Huntington Museum of Art: Introduction https://qualla.com/huntington-museum-of-art/ Photo credit Daderot, CC0. Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919, shaping the trajectory of twentieth-century architecture and design. In the mid-1960s, near the end of his life, Gropius and his firm The Architects Collaborative were hired to design an addition to a small West Virginia art museum. The Huntington Museum of Art - then still called the Huntington Galleries - was an unusual commission for one of the world's most famous modernist architects. He took it anyway. The galleries, auditorium, library, and studios Gropius designed for Huntington still stand on the same fifty-two acres above Ritter Park where Herbert Fitzpatrick donated the original plot in the 1940s. The museum is now the largest art museum in West Virginia, and one of the more surprising Gropius commissions in the United States.

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