SEASON EXHIBITIONS

• Pablo Picasso: Preoccupations and Passions

• Graham Nickson:  Private Myths

• Jerome Tupa

Painting the Pilgrimage:

From Paris to Compostela

• The Prints of Sean Scully

• The Mouse House:

Works from the Olga Hirshhorn Collection

• 20th-Century Treasures

Contemporary Gifts & Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection

• Visions: Contemporary Drawings from the Dyke Collection

• Leaders in American Modernism

• Modern Mexican Masters

PAST EXHIBITIONS

• 2007-08_Season Exhibitions
• 2006-07 Season Exhibitions

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.

Organized by the Naples Museum of Art

Generously underwritten by:
Patty and Jay Baker
Paul and Charlotte Corddry
Stephen and Lety Schwartz
Robert and Carolyn Springborn
Sharon and Dolph von Arx

Graham Nickson: Private Myths
This fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, featuring the large-scale, enigmatic paintings of British-born artist Graham Nickson. For more than 30 years, Nickson has been making dispassionate, thoughtfully staged images of an invented world, filling his paintings with heated colors and strangely juxtaposed figures. Many of his beach scenes were inspired by his annual visits to Naples.

Hardcover color catalogue produced by the Naples Museum of Art. $40

Painting the Pilgrimage: From Paris to Compostela
This fully illustrated hardcover book traces Father Tupa's boldly original artistic journey from Paris to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It includes reproductions of all the oil paintings and watercolors in the exhibition of the same name, along with sketches, the artist's "Pilgrim's Journal," an interview with Tupa and photographs by award-winning photographer Bart Bartholomew.

 
Hardcover color catalogue produced by the Naples Museum of Art. $35

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.

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.

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