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What's New? Recent Additions to the Collection
September
12 – October 21, 2009 Reception: Friday, Sept. 11, 5-7 p.m.
Recent acquisitions to the Museum of Art's permanent collection will be on view during the What's New? Recent Additions to the Collection. Top row: Elyot Henderson, Cape Neddick River, 1967; Leonard Edmondson, Figures of Reflection, 1953. Row two: Joseph Lindon Smith, Egyptian Wall Mural, c. 1920s; Janet Fish, Yellow Bowl, 1981; Sam Gilliam, Cool Zebras 16, 2007. Row three: Kara Walker, Freedom, a Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times, 1997; Don Lent, from Plants and Creatures, 2005. Row four: Paul Landacre, Growing Corn; two works by Don Lent, from Plants and Creatures, 2005. Row five: Savory, Major and Knapp, The Court of Death (det.), 1859 ; Melvin Zabarsky, Kandinskywald, 1993.
What's New? Recent Additions to the Collection highlights new acquisitions to the Museum of Art's permanent collection, which includes over 1,500 paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and works on paper used for teaching, research, and exhibition. Through gifts by generous donors and purchases through the Edmund G. Miller Art Collection Fund, a number of important works of art have recently been added. Included in this exhibition are works by a variety of distinguished artists, including Rockwell Kent, Janet Fish, Judy Pfaff, Sam Cady, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol, among others.
Sidney Hurwitz: Five Decades
September 12 – October 21, 2009 Reception: Friday, Sept. 11, 5-7 p.m.
Works by Sidney Hurwitz will be on view from September 12 – October 21, 2009.
Sidney Hurwitz: Five Decades spans 50 years of the artist's production, from his early woodcuts and figure studies to his intricately rendered etchings of industrial architecture, an exploration which he still continues today.
The exhibition was organized by Boston University School of Visual Arts and Boston University Art Gallery in celebration of Professor Emeritus Hurwitz, who taught at BU from 1965 until his retirement in 1999. This exhibition is sponsored at UNH in part by the Friends of the Museum of Art.
October 31 – December 14, 2009 (Closed November 11 and 25-29) Reception: Friday, Oct. 30, 5-7 p.m.
Artists Collect
We all know that artists make art; but how many of them collect art? And what do they choose to collect? In conjunction with the concurrent exhibition in the Scudder Gallery, based on textiles which an artist collected and then used as the basis for subject matter in her paintings, we took a look through our permanent collection to select work that was collected by other artists and then donated to the Museum. We will feature representative works by the artists who donated, as well as works donated by them.
Alice Spencer,
Shirt #2 , acrylic on gesso and sand on board, 30" xc 22"
Alice Spencer: Fabricating Time
Textiles are one of the oldest forms of material culture. Textiles convey important ideas about human history, social values, and personal identity. Having collected examples of textiles from different culture groups around the world, Alice Spencer uses these rich colors, textures, and histories as a springboard for her own paintings. This exhibition was conceived of as a dialogue between the paintings and the source of their inspiration, and both are on view in a dynamic visual relationship that celebrates the beauty of each art form.
Duplication of images is not allowed.
All Museum of Art exhibitions and programs are supported in part by the Friends of the Museum of Art.