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Show Utah Museum of Fine Arts Exhibits Words and Images: Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg and Lee Bontecou February 16 to March 15, 1992 Gallery One This exhibition features the works of three visual artists who have responded to the written language in their art work. Robert Motherwell's A la Pintura is a response to Spanish poet Rafael Alberti's ~m of the same title. The poem celebrates the artists role with specific references to artists' tools: the palette, brushes and pigments. Sculptor and printmaker Lee Bontecou and poet Tony Towfe collaborated to create Fifth Stone, Sixth Stone, 1968, six copper plate hard ground' etchings with aquatint. The third work is Robert Rauschenberg's Surface Series. These works are from the Museum's extensive print collections. Surface Series, 1970, Robert Rauschenberg, serigraph, 35" x 35", 1984-64-~ I have Special Reservations, 1946, Elizabeth Catlett, linoleum cut, 61/2" x 61/4", 1991-39-11 Wall Sconce, Margaret Gilmour (Glasgow, Scottland), silver, Collection of Dr. Bernard J. Simbari The Black Woman Elizabeth Catlett Frontispiece January 12 to February 12, 1992 This suite of 15 prints was acquired by the Museum to participate in the University of Utah 1992 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration. The series deals with the multiple roles of Black women in the American civil rights struggle and was sponsored by a 1945 Julius Rosenwald Fellowship. Catlett received art training at Howard University (B.S. 1937) and later undertook graauate study with Grant Wood at the University of Iowa (M.F.A. 1940). She has a long career as an artist and teacher in America and in Mexico. An early participant in the Civil Rights Movement, her work deals with the struggles of underprivileged people (including a strong interest in Mexicans) to improve their political, economic and cultural lives. In discussing the purpose of her work Catlett says, "I have always wanted my art to service Black people -- to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential...Learning how to do this and passing that learning on to other people have been my goals." The Museum has also reor~anized the permanent display of African Art for the Martm Luther King, Jr. celebration. The exhibit features never before exhibited work from the Owen D. Mort, Jr. Collection of African Art and other recent acquisitions. Arts and Crafts -- Utah Collections A Sampler January 12 to February 16, 1992 Beatrice M. Hansen Gallery Furniture, art pottery, metal sculpture, and fabric from the Arts and Crafts ~riod, as well as related books and manuscripts from the University's Marriott Library will be seen in this exhibit. The Arts and Crafts Movement began in En~land as a reaction against the mass-produced furnishings of the IndustriafRevolution. Arts and Crafts artists sought to revitalize the noble spirit of individual craftspeople designing hand-made utilitarian wares for the general population. As a social ideal, the movement was a failure because the hand-crafted objects were too expensive for the "masses." Aesthetically, however, the Arts and Crafts Movement left a le&acy of finely crafted and carefully designed products. This exhibit is a sampler or precursor to a larger exhibit of Arts and Crafts objects in Utah collections scheduled for 1993, organized by local collectors. Salt Lake City High Schools January 19 to February 9, 1992 Gallery One This annual exhibition features the best art works created by students in the three Salt Lake City High Schools and always draws a devoted crowd. Still-Life, Ginepro No. 2, 1979, William Bailey, from the Intimate Views exhibit Intimate Views: Still Life Selections horn the Glenn C. Janss Collection of American Realism March 29 to May 10, 1992 Gallery One The Janss Collection of American Realism, which contains over 400 works on paper, magnificently documents the persistence of representational art in the 20th century. The collection, wfiich was first exhibited in San Francisco at the Museum of Modem Art in 1986, reflects Glenn Janss' lifelong passion for the philosophical nature of realism. The entire collection is on a 10 year loan to the Boise Art Museum and has been curated into several smaller exhibitions which are shown on a rotating basis. "Intimate Views" features works executed in a variety of media by artists who delight in depicting arrangements of objects from everyday life. The still life can be traced throughout much of art history. Early examples can be seen in the mysterious wall frescoes of ancient Rome. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Dutch masters such as Pieter Aertsen and Jan De Heern painted still lifes based on symbolic moral lessons and iconographical standards of the times. During the 19th century, William Harnett introduced the narrative still life tradition in American painting. Realist artists often employ the still life to explore more formal concerns. Through die rendering of the observed, artists can explore subtle manipulations of line, shape, color, pattern ana space. In Autumn Leaves and Fruit, artist Janet Fish utilizes lush arrangements of fruit and transparent glassware to explore concepts of color and form. Other works in the collection challenge traditional notions of what constitutes our perceptions of reality. William Bailey is perhaps the most complex and influential 'realist' artist in the exhibition. Bailey, who resists being classified as a realist, explores subtle shape and color relationships through a series of contemplative arrangements that are created solely from the artist's imagination. The works in Intimate Views: Still Life Selections from the Glenn C. Janss Collection '!f American Realism pro- vide the viewer with a unique glimpse into traditional and non-traditional interpretations of contemporary still life painting. Advisory Board Education ART IN BLOOM 1992 Education Programs Remember ART IN BLOOM a year and a half ago? That was the gala spring event in the Museum that featured an exhibit of beautiful and exotic flower arrangements interpreting individual works of art from the Museum's collection, an opening reception and dinner, an auction, films, Professor Lennox Tierney from the University and our other wonderful guest speaker from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Chris Giftos. Well, by popular demand, we are doing it again May of 1992. As before, it will be a week-end long event, featuring an exhibit of flowers and art. We'll offer much of what we did for the first ART IN BLOOM but there will be some new events as well, including two outstanding and internationally known guest speakers and demonstrators. More details will come later, but in the meantime - mark your calendar! Save the dates of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 1st, 2nd and 3rd. And for your very, special Christmas giving, you may purchase gift certificates in the Museum Gitt Shop for Saturday's all-day program, May 2nd. We're looking forward to seeing you all at the Museum's second presentation of ART IN BLOOM. The Museum's Education programs reached a record number of students this fall. Since September, the schedule for guided tours has been completely filled through December. In addition, many classes have come to the Museum from all grade levels and used self-guided tours which are published and distributed by the Educational Services Department of the Museum. In October the Salt Lake City PARTners program began. This program serves 2,200 fourth grade stucfents in the Salt Lake City School District. Each classroom has a Docent visit to prepare the children for their tour to the Museum. This year the Docents presented The Magic of Art and helped the students recreate one of the paintings in the Museum. Each student also received a booklet to take home, The Magic of Art, with information and activities to help them learn about the elements of art: color, line, shape, form, texture, light and shadow. The booklet was funded by grants from the R. Harold Burton Foundation ancf the Utah Arts Council. In the Spring of 1992, all of the Salt Lake City School District fourth grades will again receive a visit to the classroom by a docent and a tour of the Museum. In addition to the Salt Lake City School District, the Museum's Educational Services Department provides guided tours for any school that calls in advance and requests a tour. The staff and docents are also active in providing tours for university and college students. Treasures and Trifles Thank You! We applaud all of you who helped to make the sixth Treasures and Trifles Sale such a success. To the hard working Advisory Board who gave countless hours planning, gathering, marking, cleaning merchandise, and presenting such a magnificent sale...our heartfelt thanks. For all who donated merchandise to sell, your efforts assured our success. Thanks to the businesses, corporations, and individuals who gave in-kind donations and underwriting which enabled the sale to happen. To the generous volunteers who i:;ave over 2,000 hours of time...your commitment was invaluable. Merchandise sales, admission and underwriting for the three-day September sale grossed over $25,000 for the Museum's educational programs. We are gratefull for your care and concern for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Your efforts make this a better community for us all. Advisory Board Welcomes Three New Members Three new members of the Museum's Advisory Board were introduced at the November board meeting. Carolyn "Lyn" C. Hinckley, Gay L. Null, and Elizabeth A. Porter were welcomed to the board and acknowledged for their vast accomplishments in community volunteer work. They will be invaluable additions to the board as they work collectively to raise funds for the educational outreach programs, increase Museum membershir and expand community awareness of the Museums programs ana exhibits through public relations efforts. The Museum Welcomes a New Docent Class The Museum is pleased to welcome seven new members of the current docent class. The docent class meets twice a week for 4 hours from September through May. The class is geared to help the new docents learn about the Museum's collection, touring techniques and art history. We are pleased to welcome Afice Cozal<os, Ruth Feeny, Sauni Henri, Jeri Holmes, Barbara Howell, Pat Weidner and Lisa Wilcox. In Memory of Georgia White Staff, volunteers, and friends of the Museum will miss the welcoming smile and joie de vivre of Docent G~r·a A. White who died November 22, 1991 following a estrian-automobile accident. Georgia was a member o the 1989-90 docent training class. As an active docent she added her enthusiasm for art and love of children to the Thursday touring team, driving from Ogden each week. She was very active in civic and community affairs in Weber County and Salt Lake City. The White family and others have established a Georgia A. White Memorial Fund with the Utah Museum of Fine Arts which will be used to purchase a work of art in her memory. |
