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CHIHULY: RECENT WORK
In 2000, an unforgettable Dale Chihuly show christened the Naples Museum of Art
as it first opened its doors. In 2010, a spectacular new show by the renowned artist will
be part of the museum’s 10th-anniversary season. For four decades, Chihuly has
produced a body of work unlike any other, helping to redefine the medium and
revolutionize the American studio glass movement. Join us for this Chihuly exhibition
and see the beautiful and unique new pieces he has chosen to share with us!
Additionally, there will be a special store within the exhibition where visitors can purchase books and
Studio Edition glass and prints by Dale Chihuly.
CHIHULY: RECENT WORK
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JANUARY 23-APRIL 25, 2010
Chihuly: Recent Work is organized by the Naples Museum of Art in cooperation with Chihuly Studio.
The Chihuly lecture and exhibition are generously underwritten by the Harris Private Bank and Friends of Art at the Naples Museum of Art.
The work displayed is protected by copyright and any copying is expressly prohibited.
Above, L to R: Dale Chihuly, Flavus Black Vessel with Maroon Leaf, 1993, 17 x 34 x 17 inches. Photo by Chuck Taylor
Dale Chihuly, Saturn Red Black Macchia with Orange Chrome Lip Wrap, 2006, 26 x 41 x 28 inches. Photo by Terry Rishel
Dale Chihuly, Shell and Sealife Resting on Gilded Base, 1999, 22 x 16 x 16 inches. Photo by Scott M. Leen |
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LATIN AMERICAN PAINTING NOW
(PINTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE AHORA)
The Naples Museum of Art is recognized for its superb permanent collection of modern Mexican art, which includes works by Rivera, Tamayo, Orozco and many others. In addition to that collection, during the 2009-10 season, the museum will also showcase this very special exhibition of contemporary Latin American art. Made up of works on loan from galleries and public and private collections, Latin American Painting Now will feature a diverse array of works by approximately 50 artists in a variety of styles and techniques. Join us in this celebration and exploration of some of today’s most talented Latin American painters.
LATIN AMERICAN PAINTING NOW
(PINTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE AHORA) —
OCTOBER 2, 2009-JANUARY 10, 2010
This exhibition is organized by the Naples Museum of Art.
Above:
Carlos Luna (b. 1969 in Cuba), Es Tiempo Que Hablemos (It Is Time That We Speak), 2003 (detail), Oil on canvas, 66 x 78 inches. Courtesy of the Cisneros Group.
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ESPHYR SLOBODKINA:
REDISCOVERING A PIONEER
OF AMERICAN ABSTRACTION
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This is the most comprehensive art exhibition to date of artist, author and children’s book illustrator Esphyr Slobodkina (1908-2002). Organized on the 100th anniversary of her birth, this exhibition redefines Slobodkina’s role in American art while celebrating a lifetime of creative achievements. An innovative abstract artist, Slobodkina was a Russian émigré who came to New York on a student visa in 1928 to study at the National Academy of Design. Slobodkina was a WPA artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artist group. This exhibition, guest curated by Dr. Sandra Kraskin, director of the Sidney Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, highlights the best of Slobodkina’s oeuvre.
ESPHYR SLOBODKINA:
REDISCOVERING A PIONEER OF AMERICAN ABSTRACTION —
OCTOBER 2-DECEMBER 27, 2009
This exhibition is organized by The Slobodkina Foundation in association with the Heckscher Museum, and is guest curated by Dr. Sandra Kraskin, Director of the Sidney Mishkin Gallery.
Left: Esphyr Slobodkina, Crossroads #2,
c.1942, 43 ½ x 33 ½ inches, Oil on board
Collection Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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THE ART OF JANET FISH
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Renowned contemporary realist painter and printmaker Janet Fish was born in Boston in 1938, and raised on the island of Bermuda. Her grandfather, Clark Voorhees, was an American Impressionist painter who inspired Janet. Her father was an art history teacher, and her mother was a sculptor and potter. Fish is best known for her still life paintings, which often include figures and landscapes. Since the 1950s, Fish’s art has been shown in many major art institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Approximately 30 paintings will be featured in this show.
THE ART OF JANET FISH
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OCTOBER 2, 2009-
JANUARY 17, 2010
This exhibition is organized by the Naples Museum of Art with the cooperation of DC Moore Gallery, New York City.
Left: Janet Fish, Coffee Cake, 2003, 50 x 50 inches, Oil on canvas,
Art © Janet Fish/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Courtesy DC Moore Gallery
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WOMAN: THE ART OF GASTON LACHAISE
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French-born sculptor Gaston Lachaise (1882-1935) was famous for his amply proportioned female nudes. Lachaise left Paris for Boston in 1905 in pursuit of his love, Isabel, and a career as a sculptor. He identified Isabel, whom he married in 1917, as his “primary inspiration.” Lachaise, who never returned to Paris, became an American citizen and one of the most important sculptors in modernist art. In 1935, the Museum of Modern Art gave him a retrospective and honored him as “the greatest living sculptor.” Lachaise died suddenly that year, at the top of his creative powers. Thanks to the Lachaise Foundation in Boston, the artist’s monumental achievements may now be appreciated by a larger public through this traveling exhibition organized and maintained by the Foundation.
This exhibition features approximately 75 sculptures and 20 drawings.
WOMAN: THE ART OF GASTON LACHAISE
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JANUARY 12-APRIL 30, 2010
This exhibition is organized by The Lachaise Foundation, Boston, MA. Exhibition Tour Organization and Management by
Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.
Above: Gaston Lachaise, Floating Figure, 1927, Bronze, Courtesy Lachaise Foundation, Boston
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PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS:
THE ART OF BEN ARONSON,
JOEL BABB AND ALEC SOTH
This exhibition features three contemporary artists whose unique talents enable us to
see through “new eyes” the people, places and things that may often be perceived as
ordinary. Ben Aronson’s oils of cityscapes and the denizens who inhabit them have been
described as impressionistic photorealism. With color, light and gestural brushstroke,
Aronson brilliantly conveys the distinctive movement, luminosity and space that define
the urban environment. Joel Babb’s woodland paintings of interior Western Maine and
Florida are distinguished by a classic realism. Devoid of human presence, his large,
meticulously rendered landscapes evoke a silence, grandeur and spirituality in the
manner of great American landscapists such as Albert Bierstadt and Asher B. Durand.
Alec Soth’s photographs include landscapes, interiors and portraits taken on his drives
along the Mississippi River from Minnesota to Louisiana, as well as images from such
incongruous locales as Niagara Falls and Bogota. Soth skillfully documents ordinary
moments with photographs containing humor, pathos, uncompromising truth and
quiet sensitivity.
PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS:
THE ART OF BEN ARONSON, JOEL BABB AND ALEC SOTH —
JANUARY 30-APRIL 18, 2010
This exhibition is organized by the Naples Museum of Art. Generously underwritten by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Schwartz.
Above L to R:
Ben Aronson, Roof Tops, Paris, 2009, Oil, 12 x 12 inches, ©Ben Aronson. Courtesy Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA. Exhibition organized by the Naples Museum of Art. Generously underwritten by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Schwartz.
Joel Babb, The Dappled Brook, 2007, 48 x 51 inches, Oil on linen. ©Joel Babb. Courtesy Vose Galleries, Boston.
Alec Soth, Mother and Daughter, Davenport, IA, 2002, Chromogenic print. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
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FRENCH TWIST: MASTERWORKS
OF PHOTOGRAPHY
FROM ATGET TO MAN RAY
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This groundbreaking exhibition features 90 rare vintage prints from the golden age of French photography, 1900-1940. From the lyrical architectural views of Eugène Atget to the Surrealist inventions of Man Ray and Dora Maar, from the boyish wonder of Jacques-Henri Lartigue to the twilight-inspired moodiness of Brassaï, from the elegant still lifes of André Kertész to the sophisticated street theater of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ilse Bing, all major facets of French photography are surveyed and celebrated. This is a singular opportunity for those who appreciate photography to see these masterworks in one exhibition.
FRENCH TWIST: MASTERWORKS OF PHOTOGRAPHY FROM ATGET TO MAN RAY —
APRIL30-JUNE 26, 2010
All works are from the collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg.
This exhibition was organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions.
Left: Brassaï, Fille de Montmartre Playing
Russian Billiards, Blvd. Rochechouart, 1932-33,
11 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches,
Gelatin silver print |
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ASSOCIATED
AMERICAN ARTISTS,
ART BY SUBSCRIPTION
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In March of 1933, at a time when our nation was seized by an unprecedented
economic depression, art dealer Reeves Lewenthal formed the Associated American
Artists organization. His plan was to make fine art prints affordable to every American.
Members of the AAA began to make art for the masses and Lewenthal used the Post
Office to distribute catalogues offering a variety of prints by this group of committed
artists. Budding collectors sprang up all over the country. This exhibition features over
70 etchings, wood engravings, aquatints and mezzotints by approximately 49 members
of the AAA, including Thomas Hart Benton, Miguel Covarrubias, John Steuart Curry,
Mabel Dwight, Doris Lee, Reginald Marsh, Peggy Bacon and Grant Wood.
ASSOCIATED AMERICAN ARTISTS,
ART BY SUBSCRIPTION
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MAY 9-JUNE 26, 2010
This exhibition was organized by the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio.
Tour management by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, MO
Left: Thomas Hart Benton,
I Got a Gal on Sourwood Mountain,1938,
12
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x 9
⅛
inches, Lithograph
Collection of the Springfield Museum of Art |
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FLORIDA CONTEMPORARY 2010
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Left: Rick Lang, Amanda’s Haircut Shop, Bellview, Florida, 1998, Digital print, 12 x 12 inches.
Courtesy of the artist. |
This is the museum’s second Florida Contemporary exhibition. Last year, 46 artists
and nearly 70 works from all over the state were chosen by the museum’s curator to be
included in this intriguing show. From realism to abstraction (and everything in
between), the 2010 version of this exhibition will include recognized photographers,
painters and sculptors who have spent a lifetime at their craft together with an exciting
array of new artists that visitors can “discover” for themselves. While not a definitive
record of currently exhibiting Florida artists, Florida Contemporary will serve as an
overview of the innovative images, subject matter, techniques and mediums that
characterize the work being created in the state today.
FLORIDA CONTEMPORARY 2010
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MAY 15-JUNE 26, 2010
This exhibition is organized by the Naples Museum of Art.
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THE SAINT JOHN’S BIBLE
AND THE ART OF THE BOOK
The Naples Museum of Art is fortunate to have received for its permanent collection the Wisdom Books volume and the Prophets volume of The Saint John’s Bible Heritage
Edition. The museum will receive the remaining five copies of the seven-volume Heritage
Edition as they are produced. The gift of this fine art reproduction was made possible
through the Frey Family Foundation. The Saint John’s Bible (created between 1998 and
2005) was written and illustrated entirely by hand, and has been called by Smithsonian
magazine, “one of the extraordinary undertakings of our time.” Produced by scribes and
illuminators from around the world, the beautiful Heritage Edition of The Saint John’s
Bible is an outstanding example of the marriage of book-making, calligraphy and fine art.
In addition to presenting for the first time the two Heritage Edition copies of the Bible,
an extensive variety of the art of calligraphy, book-making and illustration will also be
shown. Among this astonishing array of art works will be examples created by scribes and
illustrators from all over the United States, including works by Florida-based calligraphers
and book artists.
THE SAINT JOHN’S BIBLE AND THE ART OF THE BOOK
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OCTOBER 2, 2009-JUNE 26, 2010
IN THE PHILHARMONIC GALLERIES
This exhibition is organized by the Naples Museum of Art.
Above: Donald Jackson, Ecclesiastes Frontispiece, Reproduced 2007, Offset Lithography on Cotton Paper using UV Ink,
24 11⁄16 X 15
7/8
inches, ©2007 Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at Saint John's University, USA |
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IMAGES OF HOPE, IMMOKALEE:
LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK
This is an exhibition of more than 60 works by the international award-winning photographer Brynn Bruijn. These magnificent photographs were created
through a fund of the Community Foundation of Collier County to increase awareness and strengthen Immokalee nonprofit programs and services to the
community. The town of Immokalee, located approximately 40 miles northeast of Naples, is a major agribusiness locale and a vital thread in the fabric of Collier County. Bruijn’s powerful photographs convey an authentic and illuminating portrait of Immokalee and
the people who live and work there.
IMAGES OF HOPE, IMMOKALEE: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK —
DECEMBER 1, 2009-FEBRUARY 7, 2010
IN THE PHILHARMONIC GALLERIES
This exhibition is organized by the Naples Museum of Art and
the Community Foundation of Collier County.
Above: Brynn Bruijn, Tomato Picker, 2009, 20x30", Digital photograph
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2ND ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION
In 2009, the Naples Museum of Art mounted its first Student Exhibition,
which included more than 170 works by Collier County public and private school students, grades K-12. This popular
exhibition will return in 2010, with even more examples of the best art being created in our Naples-area schools. A
diverse array of mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and photography will be shown.
The NMA and Harbour Risk Management invite everyone to join us in celebrating these exceptionally creative students
and the excellent art teachers and art programs that enrich our entire community.
2ND ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION —
MAY 2-16, 2010
IN THE PHILHARMONIC GALLERIES
Generously underwritten by Harbour Risk Management
This exhibition is organized by the Naples Museum of Art and the Community Foundation of Collier County.
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