Amos Anderson Art Museum
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Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
in Helsinki
Helsinki
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, Finland
Finland
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This art museum has paintings by Francesco Bassano
Francesco Bassano
Two Italian painters, grandfather and grandson, are named Francesco Bassano:* Francesco Bassano the Elder * Francesco Bassano the Younger...
(Adoration of the Magi), Paul Signac
Paul Signac
Paul Signac was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style.-Biography:Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on 11 November 1863...
, Louis Valtat
Louis Valtat
Louis Valtat[p] was a French painter associated with the Fauves.Valtat is noted as a key link that accounts for the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse....
, Roger Fry
Roger Fry
Roger Eliot Fry was an English artist and art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism...
, Alfred Finch (View of Fiesöle), Ragnar Ekelund, Magnus Enckell
Magnus Enckell
Magnus Knut Enckell was a Finnish painter.Enckell was born in Hamina, a small town in eastern Finland, the son of Carl Enkell, a priest, and Alexandra Enckell...
, Eero Nellimarkka, Tyko Sallinen, Tove Janson (Fantasy), and the Swedish painter Palm.