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Show University of Utah Utah Museum of Fine Arts 101 Art and Architecture Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Senior Citizen Outreach Multi-Cultural Exhibit When the Multi-Ethnic High Rise Residence for Senior Citizens opened its doors in downtown Salt Lake City in 1981 the Otah Museum of Fine Arts was asked to provide art exhibits for the library. This was the beginning of a ten year affiliation during which the Museum has provided 98 art exhibits with accompanying educational programs for the residents at Multi-Ethnic. This Utah Museum of Fine Arts outreach program also offered at St. Mark's Tower Senior Residence, promotes understanding and appreciation of art, and realization that art is social commentary and an expression of cultural values. The Museum Receives Two Large Paintings Interdisciplinary Museum Fellowships th<: America~ This Museum tour features six days and five nights with visits to the San Antonio ~useum_ o[ Art to view the largest and most comprehensive exhibit of Mexican Art ever assembled; more than 400 works covering 3,000 years. The objects in the exhibit come from private and public collections in Mexico, the United States and Europe. The tour will also visit the Witte Museum, the McNay Art Museum, the King William Historic district, the Alamo and more. Air carrier Delta Airlines; accommodations at the deluxe Hilton Palacio del Rio on the Riverwalk; Welcome Dinner; Champagne brunch; private riverbarge dinner, lunch atop the Tower of the Americas, farewell dinner at Rio Rio restaurant. For more information please contact Pat Jarvis at Travel Zone, 531-1606. Tax Law Changes Helpful to Art Donors Congress has enacted legislation, effective January 1, 1991 for one year only, to permit individuals who donate works of art or other tangible property to museums to take a tax deduction based on the current market value of the works. The stake truck drove over campus sidewalks and lawn to the front entrance of the Museum. The front doors are 1O' 2" tall and the crated paintings with their frames removed, were 1 O' 6" tall. Our Preparator removed the center door jamb and the crate was carried through the front doors on an angle. The Summer newsletter will feature reproductions of the Boucher paintings. If you cannot wait until summer to see the paintings illustrated, and we hope you won't, the paintings are now on display in the Jennie Creer Stoddard Gallery of French Art. You can't miss them! The measure, part of the 1990 deficit-reduction package, essentially returns to tax rules in force before the 1986tax revision law. Under the 1986 law, donors who were subject to the alternative minimum tax could only deduct t~e price paid for artworks they contributed, not the appreciated vafue. Surveys of member institutions of the Association of Art Museum Directors (of which the Utah Museum of Fine Arts is a member) indicated a 63% decrease of gifts of art since the 1986 change. The Museum hopes that donors will take advantage of this one-year opportunity to make gifts of art objects to the Museum. Potential donors should consult their accountants or financial advisors to determine how the tax law window effects their specific tax situation. M.useurn opcr- an ons arc assisted by g r.ims from rhc Uuh An :s Ccxmcil, t he Institute o( Muscum San Antonio Art Tour Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries June 15 to 20, 1991 During 1990-91, three university students have held Museum Fellowships funded by an anonymous donor to further undergraduate research opportunities using the Museum's collection of world art. Jane Appleby, University of Utah senior in Philosophy, carried out a study of the Greek vases with regard to ancient Greek philosophy. Jill Haley, University of Utah senior in History studied women's fashions of the 19th century and recreated by hand, garments illustrated in a painting in the Museum's collection; and Kristine Jensen, Westminster College senior in History, Fine Arts and Humanities curated an exhibit of prints illustrating the 19th century Symbolist movement in art. During 1991-92 six University of Utah students will conduct research into areas of their own interest. John Beynon, English department, will research Magic Realism and its elements in art and literature; Frank Falk, College of Law, will develop an outreach program for elementary students using Museum objects; Dale Fowers, Art department, will recreate the unique Bromoil process of photographic reproduction; Heidi Hill, Languages and Literature department, plans to study the Marian imagery of the Italian Renaissance in the Museum's co11ection; Keith Kostuchowski, Art department, will create porcelain vessels based on selected pieces of the Xing Dynasty of China; and Janice Ugaki, College of Business, will study art values and the effects of the international art market on collections. Accredited bv A~~0<..iadon of Museums. The crated painting~ were transferr.ed fr~m the climate-controlled air-suspension moving van to a University stake truck 1:Jnder the supervision of the Getty Museum Preparator, Robert K1eefe. J •, i } The J. Paul Getty Museum has most generously lent the Museum two large Francois Boucher paintings. The Fountain of Love and The Bird Catchers show peasants and aristocracy in amorous games in the countryside. The High Rise will mark its tenth anniversary April 25th and 26th with a residents' banquet Thursday and an open house for the public on Friday from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. The Museum of Fine Arts, in celebration of the tenth anniversary, is placing a multi-cultural exhibition at Multi-Ethnic High Rise during the months of March and April. Cultures represented in the exhibition are USA, Central American, African-American, Navajo, Japan, China, Russian and India. Non Profit Organization U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT Strvi<.o ;md the N:monal Endowmeni for rk Arrs. Museum Insider Thi s program is made possible in r3rt by a granc from th<=Ur1h Endowmen t for the H umanin es, :1 srace based afTilia1C: of rhe ~:i.rional Endvwmtnt for the Humaniries. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad Russian Art Tour Russia's "Mother Volga" and Treasures of the Golden Ring August 23 to September 9, 1991 This 18 day tour to Russia includes five days in Moscow with visits to the Pushkin Museum, the Armory Museum in the Kremlin, the Tretyakov Museum and more. After two days in Moscow, the group ~ll bo~~d the m.s. Maxim Gorki, docked on the Moscow River to JOm their program of th:cc nights and tw? days of sightseeing in Moscow. The ship then depa_rts, via the M~scow qtna1, for a seven-day cruise on the mi~hty Volga River to view the famous "Golden Ring of Ancient Russian Cities." These cities are untouched by time and offer gol~-domed towns of medieval Russia, rarely visited by tounsts. The m. s. Maxim Gorki, a modem, air-conditioned ship with hearty Russian and Cont~nental cuisine, will be ~ome for nine days. In Kazan, capital of the Tatar Republic, the group leaves the ship and flys to Leningrad for four days of visits to the Hermitage Museum, Petrodvorets (the summer palace of Peter the Great), Catherine's Palace, and a host of other sights in this city, built by Peter the Great to rival Venice. From Leningrad the tour will fly to Copenhagen for an afternoon and overnight before returning to Salt Lake City. For more information, please contact Pat Jarvis at Travel Zone, 531-1606. Museum hours: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday; 2:00 - 5:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday. Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah Newsletter Editor, Charles R. Loving Free weekend parking is available in the Fine Arts parking lot. Weekdays the Museum validates parking in the Marriott Library pay lot or visitors may park at the meters in the Fine Arts parking lot. Weekday parking is generally easier after 2:00 pm. Museum Information 581-7332 (recorded message) Museum Administration 581-7049 Educational Services 581-3580 Utah Museum Of Fine Arts University Of Utah April May June 1991 General Custer, from the Cowboys and Indians suite, 1986, Andy Warhol, Serigraph, 36" x 36", Gift of Edith Carlson O'Rourke The Death of St. Joseph, c. 1695, France~co Sofimena (1657-17~7), Oil on Canvas 86 112." x 66 3/4" Gift of the Marriner S. Eccles Foundation and the Friends.of the Art Museum for the Marriner S. Eccles Collection ~f . Masterworks. This very_ recent addition to the ~ermanent _colle~1on 1s a work of exceptional quality. Solimena was the most famous painter in Eu~ope after the death of Carlo Maratta in 1713. The painting is one of the most 1mp<:>rtant late Baroque ftal_ian altarpieces wesJ of t~e Miss1ssiP,pi. The Gibson Gallery will shortly be reinstalled to show this maier work at its best. |
