Qualla: Weatherspoon Art Museum https://qualla.com/weatherspoon-art-museum 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/r/j/weatherspoon-art-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Weatherspoon Art Museum https://qualla.com/weatherspoon-art-museum Weatherspoon Art Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/weatherspoon-art-museum/ Photo credit Ptncsu12, CC BY-SA 3.0. The first gallery had no paintings yet, and the room had been a physics lab. In 1941 Gregory Ivy, the new head of the art department at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, talked his way into a vacant space in the McIver Building and called it a gallery. Eighty-five years later, the descendant of that improvised room holds close to 6,000 works - Warhol screenprints, de Kooning canvases, Calder mobiles, Cindy Sherman photographs, Matisse bronzes - and qualifies as one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary American art in the southeast. The Weatherspoon is the rare university museum that earned its national reputation by being curatorially serious before it was institutionally rich.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/j/weatherspoon-art-museum-wp/dnrj-weatherspoon-art-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Weatherspoon Art Museum: Named for a Teacher https://qualla.com/weatherspoon-art-museum/ Photo credit Ptncsu12, CC BY-SA 3.0. One year after the physics-lab opening, the gallery was renamed for Elizabeth McIver Weatherspoon - an art educator, a Woman's College alumna, and the sister of the late Charles Duncan McIver, who had founded the college itself fifty years earlier. The naming was not an act of va...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/j/weatherspoon-art-museum-wp/dnrj-weatherspoon-art-museum-named-for-a-teacher.mp3 0:06 2 full Weatherspoon Art Museum: The Cone Sisters' Gift https://qualla.com/weatherspoon-art-museum/ Photo credit Ptncsu12, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1950, Etta and Claribel Cone bequeathed 242 works to the Weatherspoon. The Baltimore sisters had spent decades buying art directly from Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, building a collection that would mostly go to the Baltimore Museum of Art - but a slice, including Matisse b...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/j/weatherspoon-art-museum-wp/dnrj-weatherspoon-art-museum-the-cone-sisters-gift.mp3 0:06 3 full Weatherspoon Art Museum: Art on Paper https://qualla.com/weatherspoon-art-museum/ Photo credit Ptncsu12, CC BY-SA 3.0. Since 1965 the museum has hosted the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, a biennial exhibition funded by the Dillard Paper Company. The shows feature artists working on or with paper - drawings, prints, collages, paper sculptures - and the Weatherspoon has bought from each show t...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/j/weatherspoon-art-museum-wp/dnrj-weatherspoon-art-museum-art-on-paper.mp3 0:06 4 full Weatherspoon Art Museum: Fifty States, Fifty Works https://qualla.com/weatherspoon-art-museum/ Photo credit Ptncsu12, CC BY-SA 3.0. Dorothy and Herbert Vogel spent forty years collecting contemporary art on a postal-clerk salary and a librarian's wages, filling their New York apartment with 4,000 works they bought directly from artists. When the time came to disperse their collection, they did something quiet...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/j/weatherspoon-art-museum-wp/dnrj-weatherspoon-art-museum-fifty-states-fifty-works.mp3 0:06 5 full Weatherspoon Art Museum: Garden and Galleries https://qualla.com/weatherspoon-art-museum/ Photo credit Ptncsu12, CC BY-SA 3.0. The sculpture garden carved out behind the Cone Building covers about 7,000 square feet, with native plantings winding among rotating contemporary sculptures. Inside, the six galleries cycle through fifteen or more exhibitions a year. The American Alliance of Museums first accred...

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