Taking a Step-by-Step Approach to Growth

Founded in 1935, the museum is one of the three oldest in the country, along with MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, dedicated to modern and contemporary art. It gave Jackson Pollock his first museum show, as well as Arshile Gorky and Clyfford Still, who returned the favor in 1975 with a gift of 28 canvases.