Ann Marie Mix and Susan Hammer were co-founding trustees of the museum. The group sought to keep away from wasting a historic construction slated for demolition and to revitalize it as a community art gallery. The early arts group was known as a “gallery” previous to the institution of a everlasting collection of art work. The San José Museum of Art is a modern and up to date art museum in downtown San Jose, California, United States.

The museum constructing was designed by architects William Templeton Johnson and Robert W. Snyder in a plateresque fashion to harmonize with current buildings from the Panama–California Exposition of 1915. The dominant function of the façade is a closely ornamented door inspired Museum of Art by a doorway on the University of Salamanca. The Cathedral of Valladolid additionally influenced the museum’s exterior design, and the architects derived inside motifs from the Santa Cruz Hospital of Toledo, Spain. Sponsor Appleton S. Bridges donated the building to the City of San Diego upon its completion.

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In 2009, the heirs of German artist George Grosz filed a lawsuit seeking restitution of three works by Grosz, and the heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy filed a lawsuit demanding the return of the portray by Pablo Picasso, entitled Boy Leading a Horse (1905–1906). The museum was open every day since its founding in 1929, till 1975, when it closed at some point a week to scale back operating bills. In 2012, it once more opened every single day, together with Tuesday, the in the future it has traditionally been closed. MoMA has seen its average variety of guests rise from about 1.5 million a year to 2.5 million after its new granite and glass renovation.