For Immediate Release
August 1, 2007
Contact:
Corey Cronin 781/259-3628, ccronin@decordova.org
New Arrivals: Gifts to the Permanent Collection
James and Audrey Foster Galleries, Fourth Floor Hallway Gallery
September 1, 2007 – January 13, 2008
Exhibition Opening: Thursday, September 6 from 6 – 9 pm
LINCOLN, MA—Since its opening in 1950, DeCordova Museum’s collection has grown substantially, in large part due to the generosity of collectors and artists who have donated artworks to the Museum. With an emphasis on the work of New England artists, DeCordova’s collecting mission aims to acquire more modern and contemporary American art. Currently, there are more than 3200 works in the Permanent Collection, and each year the Museum adds at least fifty and sometimes several hundred new artworks—some purchased by the Museum through acquisition funds and foundation grants and others donated as gifts.
New Arrivals: Gifts to the Permanent Collection is the most current in a series of periodic exhibitions featuring artwork acquired by the Museum within the last few years. The exhibition focuses entirely on gifts to the collection, and includes 43 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, and digital images by 33 artists. There is no thematic agenda to New Arrivals; rather, the intent is to show the diversity of the Museum’s collection. Works range from the Asian-inspired abstractions of Ron Ehrlich to the detailed self-portraits of James Aponovich, which often refer to Italian Renaissance paintings, and from the delicate geometric hanging sculpture of William Wainwright, to the large-scale figurative sculpture of Penelope Jencks.
A number of the works have been donated by artists, such as Susan Erony’s painting, September 23, 1973, a moving tribute to the Chilean “disappeared,” and Peter Haines’s Hand Maquette, a model for a larger sculpture on view in DeCordova’s Sculpture Park. Others have been donated by Museum Trustees and benefactors. DeCordova is most grateful to all the generous donors whose gifts have enriched the Permanent Collection.
The featured artists are: James Aponovich (Hancock, NH) painting, Ken Beck (Boston, MA) painting, Samantha Crawford (Shelburne Falls, MA) painting, Pat de Groot (Provincetown, MA) painting, Ron Ehrlich (Providence, RI) painting, Susan Erony (Gloucester, MA) mixed media, Paul Cary Goldberg (Rockport, MA) photography, Peter Haines (Cambridge, MA) sculpture, Suzanne Hodes (Waltham, MA) drawing, Chuck Holtzman (Boston, MA) drawing, Jon Imber (Somerville, MA) painting, Phillip Jameson (Providence, RI) photography, Penelope Jencks (Newton, MA) sculpture, Elizabeth Johansson (Hancock, NH) drawing, Jacyln Kain (Jamaica Plain, MA) photography, Judith Scott Larsen (Cambridge, MA) photography, Julie Levesque (Newton, MA) sculpture, Sarah Malakoff (Roslindale, MA) photography, Matt McClune (Andover, MA) painting, Joyce McDaniel (Boston, MA) sculpture, Todd Mckie (Cambridge, MA) painting, Mark Milloff (Stockbridge, MA) drawing, Arno Rafael Minnikinen (Andover, MA) photography, Dean Nimmer (Hyde Park, MA) mixed media, Nicholas Nixon (Brookline, MA) photography, John Raimondi (New York, NY) drawing, Sally Reed (Groton, MA) printmaking, Richard Rosenblum (Deceased) digital photography, Michael Russo (Deceased) collage, John Walker (Brookline, MA) printmaking, William Wainwright (Gloucester, MA) sculpture, Cary Wolinski (Norwell, MA) photography, and Shelley Zatsky (Somerville, MA) photography.
New Arrivals is organized by Director of Curatorial Affairs Rachel Rosenfield Lafo.
For images, please contact Corey Cronin at ccronin@decordova.org or 781/259-3628.
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