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Las Vegas Art League

Lucille Bruner founded the Las Vegas Art League in 1950 after she moved to the city from Santa Fe, New Mexico. When the City of Las Vegas bought the Twin Lakes Lodge in what is now Lorenzi Park in Las Vegas, Nevada the Las Vegas Art League requested and obtained three buildings in which to teach and display art. The Art League became the Las Vegas Art Museum (LVAM) n 1974.

The Las Vegas Art Museum relocated to the Sahara West Library and Fine Art Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1997. They remained in operation until 2009.

Sources: Vivian Woods, "A Brief History of the Las Vegas Art Museum," http://www.lastplace.com/EXHIBITS/LVAM/history.html. Accessed July 6 2015.

Dave Itzkoff, "Las Vegas Art Musuem to Close," The New York Times, February 23, 2009