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Season Exhibitions 2007-08
Exhibitions are held in the Naples Museum of Art and in the Philharmonic Galleries.
The Philharmonic Galleries will be open one hour before most performances at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts to patrons with performance tickets. Come early and enjoy our Galleries as part of your Philharmonic Center experience! Naples Museum of Art tickets provide access to the Philharmonic Galleries during non-performance times. Between exhibitions and at non-performance times, the Galleries will be "dark" during the 2007-08 season.
Pablo Picasso:
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The first major Picasso exhibition on Florida’s West Coast, Preoccupations and Passions provides a fascinating introduction to the career of the most important artist of the 20th century. One of Picasso’s great gifts, and the reason he was able to return to center stage throughout his career, was his ability to revisit motifs time and time again, bringing new experiences and new media to the creative process. This exhibition will look at Picasso’s portraits (including portraits of some of the women in his life), his still lifes and the themes of Harlequin, Jester, Minotaur and Faun. Media represented will include oil paintings, watercolors, prints, sculpture and ceramics.
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Tuesday, January 29 through Sunday, May 18, 2008
Presented in the Donald & Jean Sampson Resource Room,
the Paul & Charlotte Corddry Galleries,
the Patrick & Patricia Longe Gallery and
the Martin Foundation Gallery
Graham Nickson: Private Myths
British-born artist Graham Nickson is widely known and admired for the
virtuosity of his large-scale figure paintings and landscapes, and for his
unique draftsmanship and use of color. Nickson has been an important
influence in American figurative art, both as a practicing artist and as dean
of the New York Studio School. Art historian Jack Flam cited his “Haunting
subject matter with rigorous pictorial construction.” Nickson is known in
Naples for his popular Painting Marathon workshops.
Organized by the Naples Museum of Art
The publication of the catalogue for this exhibition is generously
underwritten by
the Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.
Tuesday, October 2 through Sunday, January 13, 2008
Presented in the Donald & Jean Sampson Resource
Room, the Paul & Charlotte Corddry Galleries,
the Patrick & Patricia Longe Gallery and the
Martin Foundation Gallery
Catalogue available at the Museum Store Online:
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Graham Nickson: Private Myths
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Jerome Tupa
Painting the Pilgrimage: From Paris to Compostela
Father Jerome Tupa is an artist and Benedictine monk, whose colorful, lively, large-scale paintings explore the idea of pilgrimage as a metaphor for our journey through life. This exhibition features paintings derived from Father Tupa’s 2001 pilgrimage on The Way of Saint James (El Camino de Santiago), from Paris to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. This is the second of the three great Christian pilgrimages Tupa has taken and turned into art. From Paris to Compostela includes images from Paris, Chartres, Cahors, Granada, Segovia, Seville and Compostela, in which buildings appear to be organic, and, like flowers, twist and turn so as to face the light.
Generously underwritten by
Eugene and Mary Frey
U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Tuesday, January 29 through Sunday, May 18, 2008
Presented in the Robert & Carolyn Springborn Galleries
Catalogue available at the Museum Store Online:
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The Prints of Sean Scully
Fifty prints and an artist’s book, created over more than two decades, provide an engaging overview of the work of internationally-renowned artist Sean Scully. The Prints of Sean Scully includes etchings, aquatints and woodcuts as well as his more recent lithographs. In addition to exploring Scully’s prints, the exhibition illustrates the artist’s signature style – his interest in a vocabulary of abstract form and color, often resulting in works of a large scale. The exhibition is toured by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Naples Museum of Art is the first venue on the nationwide tour, after its showing in Washington, D.C.
Organized and circulated by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with support
from Gisele Galante Broida, Don Brown, Ruth Holmberg and Norfolk Southern
Corporation. The exhibition’s tour is supported in part by the C.F. Foundation,
Atlanta, and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment Fund.
Saturday, November 10 through Sunday, January 13, 2008
Presented in the Robert & Carolyn Springborn Galleries
The Mouse House:
Works from the Olga Hirshhorn Collection
“The Mouse House” is the name affectionately given to Olga Hirshhorn’s diminutive, art-packed house in Washington, D.C. Hirshhorn, who winters in Naples, and whose late husband Joseph H. Hirshhorn was the founding donor of the museum now bearing the Hirshhorn name in Washington, is an avid collector in her own right. Her collection includes work by Picasso, Dalí, Man Ray, Giacometti, Miró, Matisse, Calder, de Kooning and many other great 20th-century artists. The Mouse House presents an enlightening look at the ties between a collector and artists, and recreates some of the atmosphere of Hirshhorn’s “Mouse House.”
Organized by the Naples Museum of Art
Generously underwritten by Friends of Art at the Naples Museum of Art
Tuesday, December 11 through Sunday, June 29, 2008
Presented in the Stephen & Patricia Pistner Gallery
Related lecture: The Mouse House on Tuesday, January 22, 2008
20th-Century Treasures
Contemporary Gifts & Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection
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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
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Visions: Contemporary Drawings from the Dyke Collection
This exhibition features drawings from the renowned James T. Dyke Collection, and includes work by many contemporary masters, as well as classic modernists. Among the featured artists will be Claudio Bravo, Elaine de Kooning, David Hockney, John Curran and many others. Despite the advent of abstraction, drawing has remained at the core of art teaching, and with the return to figuration over the last 10 years, it has once again become the most important aspect of an artist’s training. This exhibition underlines the primacy of drawing. The selected works were chosen purely on a visual and aesthetic basis, without any reference to historical trends or comparisons.
Generously underwritten by Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust
Friday, December 21 through Sunday, June 29, 2008
Presented in the Jay & Patty Baker Gallery, the Stephen and Lety Schwartz Gallery and
the
Eugene & Mary Frey Gallery
Related lecture: A Lifetime of Unfolding Visions: Contemporary Drawings from the Dyke Collection on Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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
The Naples Museum of Art
is the only museum in the
country whose American
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Tuesday, October 2 through Sunday, June 29, 2008
Presented in the William J. and Suzanne V. von Liebig Galleries,
the James L. & Joan French Gallery and the Schoen Foundation Gallery
Modern Mexican Masters
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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.
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Tuesday, October 2 through Sunday, June 29, 2008
Presented in the Dolph & Sharon von Arx Galleries,
the Lutgert Family Gallery and the Friends of Art Gallery
Catalogue available at the Museum Store Online:
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20th-Century Mexican Art: The Pollak Collection, a fully illustrated guide to the remarkable Mexican art collected over a 30-year period by Harry and Sharley Pollak, was published by the Naples Museum of Art in September 2007. The Pollak Collection includes significant works from the masters of 20th-century Mexican art and reflects all of the major movements and developments of the time. Among the gems in this collection are Rufino Tamayo¹s monumental White Nude, José Clemente Orozco’s The Red Curtain, Alfredo Zalce’s Girl Selling Ducks and two works by Diego Rivera. 20th-Century Mexican Art: The Pollak Collection features full-color reproductions of all of the paintings, drawings and sculpture in the collection along with commentaries on the art and artists. It includes an illustrated interview with Harry Pollak and an essay about the collection by pioneering Mexican art dealer Mary-Anne Martin. Hardcover color catalogue produced by the Naples Museum of Art. $45 |
