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In
the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures
of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey
April 19 – July 20, 2008
Organized by the California African American Museum, this exhibition
offers a roadmap to the journey encountered by these collectors
as they embrace and acquire art and artifacts. The over 90 objects
offer only a sampling of the treasures held by the Kinseys who
have spent a lifetime building a significant private art and cultural
collection. From slave owner’s documents, to brilliant expressions
in paint and glimpses into nineteenth-century private lives, the
Kinsey Collection reflects a rich heritage which they have been
driven to capture and sustain for future generations. Personal
Treasures includes works of art by important African American artists
such as Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett and Sam
Gilliam as well as historical documents, artifacts and books representing
the history of African Americans.
In the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal
Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey was organized
by the California African American Museum. This exhibition
and its associated catalogue were made possible by funding
from the State of California and Friends, The Foundation
of the California African American Museum and lead sponsors
Northern Trust and Toyota Motor Sales.
Local sponsorship of this exhibition
is made possible in part through the generosity of the MetLife
Foundation, Northern Trust, Florida Power & Light Company,
American Express, Melvin and Claire Levine, Starbucks Coffee
Company, and the West Palm Beach Chapter of The Links, Inc.
Media support provided by The Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach Daily
News and WPTV NewsChannel 5.
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Buffalo Soldiers of 9th Cavalry, Parade Flag,
Ca. 1889.
Fabric.
Collection of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey |
Romare Bearden
(American 1911-1988):
Falling Star, 1979.
Lithograph,
Collection of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey |
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Highlights: African American Art from the Norton Collection
April 19 – August 31, 2008
Organized by the Norton Museum of Art, this companion exhibition
to The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey showcases
important works by African American artists from the 1920s through
the 1990s. Featured artists include Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks,
Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Thermon Statom, Bob Thompson,
and others. This grouping offers a glimpse at the diversity of
aesthetic expression from the African American community since
the early twentieth-century. Visitors can compare various styles
and media found in the broad scope of modern and contemporary art,
including pure abstraction, figural compositions and landscapes
done in mixed media collage, oil, photography and sculpture. Additional
examples of paintings and sculpture by African American artists
can be found interspersed in the Norton’s impressive American
art galleries.
Exhibition catalog - now viewable online!
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Organized by the Norton Museum of Art.
Local sponsorship of this
exhibition is made possible in part through the generosity of
the MetLife Foundation, American Express, Starbucks Coffee Company,
the Sydelle and Arthur I. Meyer Endowment, The Priscilla and
John Richman Endowment for American Art, the State of Florida,
Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida
Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Media support provided
by The Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach Daily News and WPTV NewsChannel
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Jacob Lawrence
(American, 1917 - 2000)
Man with flowers, 1954.
Tempera on gessoed Masonite
15.75 by 11.75 inches (40 by 29.8cm)
Purchase, the R.H. Norton Trust, 95.21
© 2008 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists
Rights Society (ARS), New York |
Faith Ringgold (American, born 1930)
The French Collection Part II, #12, Moroccan Holiday,
1997.
Acrylic on canvas, printed on tie-dyed fabric,
74.75 by 92 inches (189.9 by 233.7cm). Purchase, the R.H. Norton
Trust, 98.765 Faith Ringgold © 2007 |
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Alexander
Calder Jewelry
February 23 – June 15, 2008
The art of Alexander Calder has been celebrated and examined at
some length in numerous exhibitions. However, his work in the field
of jewelry is not so well-known, and when shown has been just a
small component of large survey exhibitions. Indeed, Calder dealt
with this field much as he did in his other work: the jewelry has
the same linear yet three-dimensional aspect as the mobiles, and
the parts that comprise each piece are hammered, shaped, chiseled
and composed in a fashion that precisely echoes the artist’s
creation of his sculpture. This exhibition will consist of approximately
one hundred objects—necklaces, bracelets, pins, earrings,
and crowns.
This exhibition is co-organized by the Norton Museum of Art, West
Palm Beach, Florida, and the Calder Foundation, New York. National
sponsorship of the exhibition has been generously provided by Melvin
and Claire Levine. Local sponsorship of this exhibition is made
possible in part through the generosity of Melvin and Claire Levine,
The Contemporary and Modern Art Council of the Norton Museum of
Art, The Milton and Sheila Fine Endowment for Contemporary Art,
the Dr. Henry and Lois Foster Endowment, and the Michael M. Rea
Endowment. Media support provided by The Palm Beach Post and Palm
Beach Daily News.
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Necklace, c.1940. Brass wire,
8 1/8 by 6 ¾ By 4 ½ inches.
Inscription: “C.S.”
Private Collection, New York
© 2007 Calder Foundation, New York |
Louisa Calder's 53rd Birthday Gift pin,
1958.
Gold and steel wire,
2.5 by 5.25 inches. Inscription: "XIX.II.LVIII" Private
Collection, New York
© 2007 Calder Foundation, New York |
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The
Hunter Gifts
November 17, 2007 – September
7, 2008
This coming season, the Norton Museum of Art will present The
Hunter Gifts, a series of photography exhibitions drawn from
a very recent donation of 162 photographs by Mrs. Irene Hunter
of Delray Beach, Florida and Manchester Village, Vermont. Including
some of the most important photographers of the twentieth century,
this gift adds many important names and images to the already significant
photography holdings at the Norton Museum. To feature as many photographers
as possible, and to continue the Norton's longstanding commitment
to furthering the visitor's understanding of photographic history,
this series will showcase the work of six international photographers
paired together. It is through these comparisons of generations
and cultures that photography's rich history will be not only illuminated
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Elliot Erwitt
(American, born France, born 1928):
Yale / New Haven,
1955, printed 1977.
Gelatin silver print, ed. 6/100,
6.5 by 9.5 inches (16.5 by 24.1 cm).
Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, gift of Irene Hunter 2006.44.1
© Elliot Erwitt / Magnum Photos |
Garry Winogrand
(American, 1928 - 1984):
Cape Kennedy, Florida, 1969, printed 1978. Gelatin Norton
silver print, ed. 5/100,
9 by 13 7/16 inches (22.9 by 34.1 cm). Norton Museum of Art, West
Palm Beach, Gift of Irene, 2007.7.1
© 1984 The Estate of Garry Winogrand.
All rights reserved. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. |
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Rubens
to Corot: The Delacorte Gift
On view from March 19, 2008
The Norton Museum of Art announces an
extraordinary gift of art from Mrs. George T. (Valerie)
Delacorte consisting of more than 65 objects including Old
Master, and 19th-and 20th-century paintings, sculpture and works
on paper including artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt,
Ferdinand Bol, Adriaen Hanneman, Giambattista Tiepolo, J.-B.-C.
Corot, Joaquin Sorolla, and Modigliani. This is a
transformational gift, making the Norton Museum’s collection of
Old Master paintings one of the largest and most important in
Florida. To celebrate this unprecedented gift, The Norton Museum
of Art will display a selection of its works in the ongoing
installation Rubens to Corot: The Delacorte Gift which will open
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Adriaen Hanneman
(Dutch, 1604–1671):
Two Boys Blowing Bubbles,
1655/65.
Oil on canvas, 31 7/8 by 26 inches.
Gift of Valerie Delacorte in memory of George T. Delacorte,
Publisher and Philanthropist, 2007.29 |
P.
Rubens: Head of
Saint
John
the
Evangelist,
1611/12 |
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