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NORTON MUSEUM OF ART ANNOUNCES YEAR-ROUND SCHEDULE
OF SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
Deborah Butterfield, Candida Höfer, and Betye Saar feature in
monographic exhibitions; French Impressionism and Boston: Masterworks
from the Museum of Fine Arts -highlight of the winter season
West Palm Beach, FL– The Norton Museum of Art has announced a year
round, highly diverse schedule of special exhibitions for the coming
year. Three major living artists, Deborah Butterfield, Candida Höfer,
and Betye Saar will have monographic exhibitions. Two other special
exhibitions are organized by the Norton Museum of Art: Candida
Höfer:Architecture of Absence, and Matisse in Transition: Portraits of
Lorette, 1916 to 1917 which is being co-organized with the Guggenheim
Museum.
Deborah Butterfield: Horses
September 17–December 11, 2005
Deborah Butterfield: Horses, features twelve evocative sculptures
of horses in bronze, steel, and mixed media by the internationally
acclaimed Montana sculptor. Most of the pieces are from Deborah
Butterfield’s personal collection: they have rarely, if ever, been seen
by the public. Butterfield’s horses have been the single sustained focus
of her work for over 30 years. A DVD entitled Deborah Butterfield:
Dialogue with the Artist showing the artist at work in her Montana and
Hawaii studios, and a step-by-step overview of the bronze casting
process at the Walla Walla Foundry, will also be on view. The exhibition
is accompanied by the book Deborah Butterfield, the first major survey
of the artist’s work and career, by Robert Gordon. This exhibition was
organized by the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana.
Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence
October 1, 2005–January 1, 2006
Co-organized by the Norton Museum of Art and University Art Museum,
California State University, Long Beach, Candida Höfer: Architecture
of Absence, is the first North American survey exhibition devoted to
this celebrated German artist. Over the last thirty years, Candida Höfer
has created meticulously composed images of the interiors of public and
institutional spaces–spaces marked with the richness of human activity,
yet devoid of human presence. The fifty large-scale chromogenic prints
in the exhibition embrace the full spectrum of Höfer’s illustrious
career with an emphasis on recent work. All works have been borrowed
directly from the artist’s studio and her gallery in Cologne, offering a
unique opportunity to present new projects that are currently in
progress, as well as iconic works retained by the artist that have never
been shown in the United States. The exhibition catalogue, with an essay
by Virginia Heckert, the Norton’s William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator
of Photography, is the first major English-language publication on
Höfer's work, published by Aperture.
French Impressionism and Boston: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine
Arts
November 19, 2005–March 5, 2006
This exceptional exhibition is one of the most important presentations
of Impressionism ever mounted in the State of Florida. After opening in
Nagoya, Japan, in April 2004, the exhibition will move to the Royal
Academy this summer before making its American debut at the Norton
Museum of Art on November 19, 2005. It will illuminate the process of
artistic education and assimilation exemplified by the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston’s impressive collection of both French and American
Impressionists.
Eloquently surveying the development of Impressionism in both France and
America, French Impressionism and Boston will tell the
fascinating story of how the latest and most advanced examples of French
art came to be collected by eager Bostonians during the second half of
the nineteenth century. Boston was home to some of the best-informed and
most progressive collectors of modern painting in the United States.
They were among the first to embrace the successive waves of stylistic
innovation occurring in France, and, along with their peers in New York,
the most avid collectors of modern French art. Not surprisingly, the
Museum of Fine Arts was the first American museum to organize a Monet
retrospective (in 1911) and to purchase a work by Edgar Degas, Race
Horses at Longchamps, 1871, included in this exhibition.
French Impressionism and Boston consists of fifty-three paintings; among
them are twelve Monets, including Camille Monet and a Child in the
Artist’s Garden at Argenteuil, 1875, Meadow with Haystacks near
Giverny, circa 1875 and Waterlilies, 1905. Other highlights
include Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot’s Forest of Fontainebleau,
1846; Edouard Manet’s Street Singer, circa 1862; Pierre-Auguste
Renoir’s Grand Canal, Venice, 1881; Childe Hassam’s Grand Prix
Day, 1887; and John Singer Sargent’s Helen Sears, 1895.
French Impressionism and Boston: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine
Arts has been organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Matisse in Transition: Portraits of Laurette, 1916 to 1917
January 28–April 16, 2006
Co-organized by the Norton Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, Matisse in Transition: Portraits of Laurette, 1916 to
1917 is the first in-depth examination of this fascinating period of the
artist’s career when he began to paint in series. The focus of this
suite of works was Matisse’s new Italian model who is known to us only
by her first name, Laurette. Matisse painted her in a great variety of
guises and poses. The exhibition will show each moment in this eventful
and densely wrought progression. More than twenty paintings and numerous
related drawings, lent from public and private collections in both
Europe and America, will be on view at the Norton before the exhibition
continues at the Guggenheim Museum (New York City) where it will be
presented from May 6 to July 23, 2006. Institutions lending works
include the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Musée National d’Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Brooklyn
Museum of Art. The numerous private lenders include descendants of the
artist himself.
Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment
March 18–June 4, 2006
Betye Saar is one of the most distinguished figures in the American art
community. Born in 1926 in Los Angeles, she emerged in the 1960s as a
seminal figure in the redefinition of African-American art, encouraging
her viewers to contemplate both the surface and underlying issues in her
works. This will be her first full-career retrospective, incorporating
her early personal assemblages of the 1960s; politically charged works
dealing with issues of race made in the 1970s; new directions addressing
technology and issues of personal memory from the 1980s; and her latest
body of work, which demonstrates a fusion of many ideas resonating
throughout her career. The exhibition was organized by the University of
Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor.
Elements from the Front Range Contemporary Quilters
May 13–August 13, 2006
Elements from the Range Contemporary Quilters is a survey of some
of the most innovative quilt work being created today. The Front Range
Contemporary Quilters, established in 1988, is one of the oldest art
quilt guilds in the United States with members in Colorado, Wyoming, New
Mexico, and Kansas. Inspired by the themes and atmosphere of the West,
these artists explore the concept of elements from a wide array of
perspectives. Their quilts allude to earth, air, fire, and water as well
as to environmental degradation, seasonal change, day and night. Robert
Shaw, author of The Art Quilt, has selected forty contemporary and
innovative quilts for this exhibition. The creativity of these
contemporary quilters incorporates the accessible and familiar with the
new and edgy using a media that has become, for many artists, a strong
avenue for contemporary expression. The exhibition was organized by
Front Range Contemporary Quilters, traveled by Exhibits USA.
Art of the Needle: Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelburne Museum
June 17–September 10, 2006
Art of the Needle features 40 of the finest examples of
nineteenth-century textile art, and one very rare eighteenth-century
quilt, drawn from the Shelburne Museum’s world-renowned permanent
collection of over 400 American quilts. The Shelburne was the first
museum to exhibit quilts as works of art and artifacts, in 1952. The
quilts in this exhibition are grouped into eight principal construction
or design themes: album, Amish, appliqué, chintz appliqué, pieced,
Victorian (crazy and log cabin), white work, and whole cloth. Each
category highlights a particular quilting method or design style. Taken
together they embody an extraordinary range of artistic impulses—from
the exacting precision of stitching in white work quilts to the
exhilarating color and chaos of crazy quilts. Art of the Needle will
resonate with history enthusiasts appreciating quilts as records of a
time and a place, and art lovers who will be impressed with the quilts’
often dramatic visual qualities. The exhibition is organized by the
Shelburne Museum, Vermont.
The Norton Museum of Art is open Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. (Closed Mondays from May through October and on
major holidays.) General admission is $8 for adults, $3 for visitors
ages 13-21, and free for Members and children under 13. West Palm Beach
residents receive free admission to the permanent collection every
Saturday, with proof of residency. Palm Beach County residents receive
free admission to the permanent collection the first Saturday of each
month, with proof of residency. An additional charge may apply for
special exhibitions. For general information, please call (561) 832-5196
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