[1] The museum's construction and collection was established with funds from the estate of Dr. and Mrs. James Philip Gray,[2] and the steel frame Art Deco building was designed by New York-based firm Tilton and Githens.

[6] Between 1955 and 2001, the museum had a 16th-century Italian painting by Jacopo Bassano, called "Spring Sowing", in their collection.

[7] The piece had been stolen from the Italian embassy in Poland in 1939, and in 1945 the Lucerne Fine Arts Company, based in Switzerland, bought the painting from a Swiss woman who claimed it had been in her family for generations.

[9] On the second floor, the Carol and Noel Leary Gallery of Impressionist Art features a number of French impressionist paintings, including Grainstack by Claude Monet, and pieces by Degas, Gauguin, Pissarro, and Renoir.

[13] The museum has featured temporary exhibitions of pieces by Isabel Bishop, Marc Chagall,[14] Lisa Hoke,[15] Vassily Kandinsky,[16] William Jurian Kaula and Lee Lufkin Kaula,[17] Frances Flora Bond Palmer,[18] Theodore Rousseau,[19] Nelson Stevens, and Ai Weiwei.