Calendar of Events
Open October 1-June 30
for the 2011-12 season.
(Closed on Mondays and holidays.)

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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

2011-12 COLLECTION DISPLAYS

LEADERS IN AMERICAN MODERNISM
Selected works from the American Modernism Collection
A permanent collection featuring works
made possible by William J. and Suzanne V. von Liebig


Leaders in American Modernism exhibition at the Naples Museum of Art

An exciting new selection of works from the museum's American Modernism Collection will be on display this season. These paintings and drawings, many of which are from the Ahmet Ertegun Collection, represent all of the important movements in American art during the first half of the 20th century. Artists in the collection include Marsden Hartley, Oscar Bluemner, Arthur Dove, Jackson Pollock and many others. The art is installed in rooms reflecting designs from some of the most important galleries of the early 20th century.

 

 

 

 

 

LEADERS IN AMERICAN MODERNISM –
Saturday, October 1, 2011–Saturday, June 30, 2012

Arthur B. Davies, Facades, Oil on canvas, 23 x 28 inches
Collection of the Naples Museum of Art. 2000.15.053. Museum purchase.

MODERN MEXICAN MASTERS
Featuring works from the Pollak Collection and the Bryna Collection


Modern Mexican Masters exhibition at the Naples Museum of Art

 

 

 

 

 

This new installation, drawn from the largest Mexican art collection in the Southeast, includes works by such masters as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Miguel Covarrubias and José Clemente Orozco. The wide-ranging exhibition reflects the colors, vibrancy, beauty and mystery of Mexico and features some of the country's most important artists. Among the treasures in this exhibition is Rufino Tamayo's monumental painting Figura Blanca Desnuda (White Nude).

MODERN MEXICAN MASTERS –
Saturday, October 1, 2011–Saturday, June 30, 2012

Pedro Friedeberg, Cualquier Lado Por Arriba (Any Side Up), 1975, Acrylic on board mounted on wood, 29 x 29 inches
Collection of the Naples Museum of Art. 2002.2.027. Gift of Harry Pollak. © Pedro Friedeberg

Selections from the Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art
PERMANENT COLLECTION


Permanent Collection exhibition at the Naples Museum of Art

 

 

 

 

 

The Naples Museum of Art houses an extensive permanent collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, graphics, photographs and mixed media works. These artworks reflect a diversity of styles, mediums, techniques and subject matter. Throughout the season, the museum will feature rotating exhibitions of selections from the permanent collection, including new and recent acquisitions and art never before displayed in the museum.

The museum’s permanent collection will also showcase one of the finest collections of miniatures in the country, including an exquisite selection of Kupjack Rooms on loan from Kupjack and Associates and works from the Carole and Barry Kaye Collection.

PERMANENT COLLECTION –
Saturday, October 1, 2011–Saturday, June 30, 2012

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Premiere at La Scala, Milan, Gelatin silver print, 25.5 x 21 inches
Collection of the Naples Museum of Art. 1999.3.004. Bequest of Herbert and Ruth Abramson.

LOUISE NEVELSON: DAWN’S FOREST

Louise Nevelson, Dawn's Forest exhibition at the Naples Museum of Art

Louise Nevelson’s monumental Dawn’s Forest greets visitors inside the museum's dome. Nevelson’s largest and most complex sculptural environment, Dawn’s Forest consists of a dozen separate sculptures, created in the mid-1980s and containing elements from previous sculptures dating to 1971. It is also Nevelson’s last major work.

Nevelson (1899-1988) was one of the most important and influential figures in postwar American art, and the most internationally celebrated woman artist of her time. Her work continues to inspire contemporary sculptors today and is represented in hundreds of museums and private collections around the world.

Commissioned and owned by Georgia-Pacific LLC, and MetLife at the Georgia-Pacific Center in Atlanta since the 1980s, Dawn’s Forest has never before been shown in a museum setting. The sculptural installation was gifted to the Naples Museum of Art in 2010 and moved to its new permanent home in the museum’s Figge Conservatory.

LOUISE NEVELSON: DAWN’S FOREST —
Saturday, October 1, 2011–Saturday, June 30, 2012

(Detail) Louise Nevelson, Dawn’s Forest, 1986, Painted balsa-plywood
Collection of the Naples Museum of Art. 2010.7. Gift of GA-Met, a joint venture Georgia-Pacific, LLC.
© 2010 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

At top of page: Dale Chihuly Persian Ceiling, 2000 (detail). ©2000, Dale Chihuly