Top to bottom:
Ángel Marcos, En Cuba 8/In Cuba 8, 2004,
silicon photograph on plexiglass. Gift of the artist
and Ernst Hilger Contemporary Art.
© Ángel Marcos, 2004.

Robert Cottingham, Corona, 1997, oil on canvas.
Gift of Robert and Cheryl Fishko.

The Naples Museum of Art’s contemporary art collection has grown significantly over the last few years, and this exhibition presents some of those recent acquisitions. Included are works by Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Gary Stephan, Ángel Marcos, Romero Britto and many others. Recent gifts of art from Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Eaton, Robert and Cheryl Fishko, Horst and Heidi Nickel, John Raimondi and John and Melissa Gridley will be featured.

Tuesday, October 2 through

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Presented in the Jay & Patty Baker Gallery,
the Stephen and Lety Schwartz Gallery and
the Eugene & Mary Frey Gallery

The Naples Museum of Art is the only museum in the country whose American
modernism collection is installed in rooms reflecting gallery design at various times
in the 20th century. For instance, works of art by John Marin, Marsden Hartley,
Oscar Bluemner, Arthur Dove and Charles Sheeler can be seen in a gallery reminiscent of Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 (c. 1917). A recreation of a room from Hilla Rebay’s Museum of Non-Objective Painting (c. 1939), the forerunner of the Guggenheim Museum, includes paintings by John Sennhauser, Jean Xceron, John Ferren, Alexander Calder and Dwinell Grant. Other rooms include works by Jackson Pollock and others. In addition, select items of period furniture are included in this year’s installation, giving the visitor a very special overview of the art and design of the period.

Tuesday, October 2 through

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Morgan Russell, Synchromy, (c. 1914-1915), oil on cardboard

Naples Museum of Art, made possible by

William J. and Suzanne V. von Liebig

A permanent collection including the Pollak Collection and works from the

Bryna Collection

The museum’s collection of 20th-century Mexican art has been redisplayed, to include more of the Bryna collection, which was donated in 2007 by Michael and Tonya Aranda. The Naples Museum of Art houses the largest collection of Mexican art in the Southeast, and its importance can be gauged by the fact that one of the museum’s paintings by Rufino Tamayo, Figura Blanca Desnuda (White Nude), 1950, was a centerpiece of the Tamayo retrospective that traveled in America and Mexico in 2007. The museum’s collection features works by the great Mexican muralists, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, as well as several works by Tamayo, and art by such luminaries as Armando Amaya, Leonora Carrington, Miguel Covarrubias, Roberto Montenegro, Juan O’Gorman, Pablo O’Higgins, Olga Costa and Armando Ortega Orozco. The collection spans a period of political unrest and unusual creativity, from just before the Mexican Revolution through the late 20th century.

Rufino Tamayo, Figura Blanca Desnuda (White Nude), 1950,
oil on canvas. Naples Museum of Art.

The Philharmonic Galleries will display a rich variety of painting, sculpture and drawing from the museum's extensive Permanent Collection throughout the 2007-08 season — as well as a re-installation of the popular Masters of Miniature exhibition, featuring exquisite miniatures on loan to the museum.

Called "a revelation" by The New York Times, Masters of Miniature offers esoteric glimpses into faraway times and places. Among its treasures: Bureau du Roi (King's Desk), by renowned furniture-maker Denis Hillman. This exquisitely detailed work is an exact miniature of the original desk designed by Jean-Henri Risener for Louis XV in 1769; it is considered the finest piece of miniature furniture in the world. Also featured are three period rooms commissioned by Ede & Ravenscroft from the brilliant English miniaturists Kevin Mulvany and Susan Rogers.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 through Sunday, June 29, 2008