Japanese Art Museum

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Part of Japanese Art Museum in 1974

Newspaper article with an image of the Japanese Art Museum building and an article promoting the museum's art collection. Text Section: Top Caption: "Mrs. Chandler bought this building at 426 South Staples Street in Corpus Christi, and had it completely renovated and redecorated to serve as the Japanese Art Museum housing Japanese and other Oriental art treasures." Main Headline: "COME SEE THE JAPANESE ART MUSEUM" Article Text: "You'll want to come again and again. There's too much to see at one time and to remember. The art that is here was collected in Japan over a long term of years by Mrs. Billie Trimble Chandler who was a teacher there for many years. She brought back to Corpus Christi - her home - thousands of art objects - paintings, sculptures, statues, films, slides, books, Hakata dolls and floral displays. There are many authentic scaled models of pagodas, shrines and temples. These are reproductions - made by architects - in miniature of well-known structures. While in Japan, Mrs. Chandler became interested in floral arrangements. She attended and earned diplomas from Japanese schools in that art. Back home in Corpus Christi, she bought a building at 426 South Staples Street, had it rebuilt, rearranged and redecorated to house her art collection. The spacious building will hold less than half of her very large collection. Much of it is in storage. There will be changes in museum displays from time to time, and new things to see. Mrs. Chandler wanted to give her art treasures to Corpus Christi, to make it possible for all to see the art she had spent so many years collecting. She has given her art collection to a non-profit corporation, named in her honor, the Billie Trimble Chandler Art Foundation. Col. Floyd H. Buch is chairman of the Foundation's board of trustees."
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Japanese Art Museum