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International Art Treasures Web Magazine October 2005 |
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
Change is in the air at the Samuel P Harn Museum of Art as the expansion project nears completion. The museum celebrates with a new look at its permanent collection along with some exciting exhibits.
Permanent Collection
Impressionist master Claude Monet is among the famous artists that form the permanent collection of the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Florida.
This is just a sampling of the extensive artworks and antiquities that form the Harn Museum collection. Asian Art: Culture and Context
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Buddhism was an integral influence on Chinese Art and sculpture with its pinnacle during the Tang dynasty. It declined after the rise of Confucianism. Gandhara Indian missionaries brought Buddhism to China. Located in the north-western portion of India, Gandhara, was the apex of the East and West Trade routes. |
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Pleasures of Paris
September 2005 to January 8, 2006.
Title: Avenue de Bois de Boulogne (Women, Paris Blvd.),1911
Artist: Jacques Henri Lartigue (French 1894-1986)
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Dimensions: 7 x 9 in. (17.8 x 22.9 cm)
Gift of Dr. Melvin Rubin, on loan from a private Florida Collection
Image Courtesy: Samuel P Harn Museum of Art
The city of lights has long been a favored subject from Toulouse-Lautrec to Hopper to photographers Jacques Henri Lartique and Eugene Atget. Twelve of the noted photographers are included in Pleasures of Paris and each has their individual style in capturing the city as it is it to them.
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Atget is sometimes described as the 'father of modern photography'. He choose to chronicle the gritty Parisian streets, one of the forty images included in Pleasures of Paris. |
Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Pavilion Opening
October 22, 2005
Title: Exterior of the Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Pavilion
Image Courtesy: Samuel P Harn Museum of Art
Honoring the museum's fifteenth anniversary a new pavilion will open in October. The new building is named for the daughter of Samuel P. Harn. It's primary focus will be the post-World War II Harn collection of international art in multiple genres with its inaugural exhibition Images from American Matrix.
Title: Interior of the Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Pavilion
Image Courtesy: Samuel P Harn Museum of Art
Images from American Matrix:
Contemporary Directions for the Harn
Museum Collection
October 22, 2005 - October 29, 2006
Untitled: (Who speaks? / Who is silent?), 1990
Artist: Barbara Kruger (American b.1945)
Photographic Silkscreen/Vinyl
Dimensions: 52 x 197 inches
Museum Purchase from the Mary Boone Gallery, 90.253
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
© Barbara Kruger
Courtesy: Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Photo credit: Zindman / Fremont
Image Courtesy: Samuel P Harn Museum of Art
Inter splicing text and cropped photographic images is the trademark of New Jersey native Barbara Kruger. The sense one has is of advertising tools with passion the medium becomes the message.
Contemporary American sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best described as an abstract artist whose work is ever evolving from her early years to present day. Her first sculptures focused primarily on carved wood but her technique constantly evolves with a seeming preoccupation between the lack of relationship between individuals.
Each is a fitting inclusion in the exhibit that reflects the American influence on modern art. These pieces will be alongside works from forty artists such as Warhol, Calder and de Kooning.
Title: Ode Ą L'Oubli, 2004
Louise Bourgeois (American b. 1911)
Medium: Fabric and color lithograph book, (detail) 36 Pages
Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 13 1/4 x 2 in; 27.3 x 33.6 x 5 cm.
Harn Museum Collection, Museum purchase, funds provided by the David A. Cofrin Exhibition and Acquisition Endowment
Image Courtesy: Samuel P Harn Museum of Art
The Samuel P Harn Museum one of the treasures found in Gainesville Florida.
Title: Exterior of the Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Pavilion
Image Courtesy: Samuel P Harn Museum of Art