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An American Celebration: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection
7/5/2003 - 10/19/2003
WEST PALM BEACH, FL - The Norton Museum of Art announces an
exhibition of newly acquired works by American artists. An American
Celebration: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection will feature
six American Impressionist and early American Modernist paintings
recently donated to the Museum by John And Priscilla Richman, and 18
American paintings from the Elsie and Marvin Dekelboum Collection.
Two recently acquired works by James Brooks and Norman Rockwell
complete the exhibition. An American Celebration: Recent Gifts to
the Permanent Collection, will be on view from July 5 through
October 19.
The gift from Priscilla and John Richman of six American
Impressionist and early American Modernist paintings enhances the
Museum's permanent collection by bringing the first example of an
artist's work into the collection or by adding to the work of
important artists currently represented in the collection. The works
are Frederick Frieseke, Woman Seated in an Armchair, ca. 1910;
Abbott Fuller Graves, Gathering Lilies, not dated; Robert Henri,
Orientale, ca. 1915; Rockwell Kent, Holsteinberg, Greenland, 1933;
Louis Ritman, Woman Gardening, 1916; and John Sloan, The Little
Flower, ca. 1920. The Richman gift brings the Museum's holdings of
American works of art to 912.
Commenting on the gift, John Richman said, "The Norton is an
exciting place to be associated with these days, and Priscilla and I
are delighted to have been able to make a gift which enhances the
American Collection. We think it is particularly fitting that the
first public showing of this group of paintings should be part of an
exhibit entitled An American Celebration.
Dr. Christina Orr-Cahall, Museum Director, remarked, "This generous
gift from John and Priscilla greatly enhances our American
Collection. Three of the American Impressionist painters -- Ritman,
Frieseke and Graves -- had not been previously represented in the
Norton's collection. Thanks to the Richmans and to Mrs. Elsie
Dekelboum, visitors to the Museum this summer will be able to enjoy
a superb exhibition of American paintings, and we are extremely
grateful to them."
The Priscilla and John Richman Gift:
John Richman has been a member of the Norton Museum of Art's Board
of Trustees since 1997 and is a former chairman & CEO of Kraft, Inc.
He and his wife Priscilla are long-standing supporters of the
Museum, and Mr. Richman is a current campaign committee member and
serves on the Works of Art Committee. In 2000 the couple
donated $500,000 to the Museum's Millennium Campaign to Secure the
Future. This additional gift of art includes the following:
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- Frederick
Frieseke, Woman Seated in an Armchair, ca. 1910, is the first
work by this artist to enter the collection. Frieseke was one of
the first American artists to study at Monet's Giverny, where he
became the most dominant member of this group and the most
representative of the impressionist style.
- Abbott Fuller
Graves' Gathering Lilies, not dated, is also the first work by
this artist to enter the collection. Graves, a well-respected
Boston impressionist, is best known for his paintings of gardens
and doorways.
- Robert Henri's
Orientale, ca. 1915, is the third painting by this artist in the
collection, but the subject of the first, an Irish child, is
very different in style from this new work, which is more
impressionistic.
- Rockwell Kent's
Holsteinberg, Greenland, 1933, is representative of this
artist's individual style. In the 1930s, Kent was considered one
of the best American contemporary painters. An important aspect
of Kent's life, which directly influenced his artistic
production, was his travel; he visited Greenland on three
separate occasions between 1929 and 1935. The Norton has several
works on paper by this artist; this is the first painting.
- The first work
by Louis Ritman to enter the collection, Woman Gardening, 1916,
is an excellent example of this artist's impressionist style and
subject matter: women out-of-doors. He studied at Giverny, where
he met Frieseke.
- John Sloan's The
Little Flower, ca. 1920, joins two other paintings by this
artist in the collection. Sloan, a member of the Ashcan School
along with Henri, is best known for his city scenes such as The
Little Flower, which depicts one woman leaning on a window sill
which looks out into the window of the apartment building across
from it, while another woman darns a sock; this painting is the
first of this artist's well-known subject matter in the
collection.
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The Elsie and
Marvin Dekelboum Collection:
The Norton Museum of Art originally exhibited the complete gift of
21 extraordinary works of art from Mrs. Elsie Dekelboum and her
husband, the late Marvin Dekelboum, in 2002. The impressive
collection consists of 19th- and 20th- century American and European
paintings, pastels and watercolors.
An American Celebration: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection
will feature 18 works by American artists including important
examples by Mary Cassatt, Colin C. Cooper, William M. Harnett,
Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Walt Kuhn, John Marin, Jerome Myers,
Maurice Prendergast, Charles M. Russell, John Sloan, and John H.
Twachtman.
Twachtman's Pink Flowers of 1892 is a charming view of the painter's
garden in Greenwich, Connecticut. It will be the second painting by
this important artist and teacher to enter the Norton Museum's
holdings. The Dekelboums' In the Wake of the Hunters, a striking
1896 picture of Native American life by Charles M. Russell, provides
a moving glimpse into what was already at that time a vanishing
culture. Mary Cassatt's 1907 Portrait of Helen Sears is a major
pastel from the artist's late period that represents the daughter of
one of her closest friends, the photographer Sarah Choate Sears.
Walt Kuhn's poignant 1931 Portrait of a Clown will also return.
Norman Rockwell and James Brooks:
An American Celebration: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection
exhibition also introduces works by two important artists, Norman
Rockwell's Tea Time, 1927, bequeathed by Gertrude Perlberg in 2001,
and James Brooks' Every, 1962, a gift from Charlotte Park Brooks in
2002. Brooks' Every joins other fine examples of Abstract
Expressionism in the Museum's collection such as Pollock's Night
Mist, 1945 and Sam Francis' Untitled, 1956.
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