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Anthony Quinn's Eye
A Lifetime of Creating and Collecting ArtScreen legend Anthony Quinn amassed an impressive collection of art throughout his adult life a portion of which are currently on tour in the USA. Included in the exhibit Anthony Quinn's Eye are works by Matisse, Renoir and Moore alongside Quinn's own paintings, drawings and sculptures. Biography
It was a second competition that had a profound influence on the young Quinn. While in high school he won an architectural challenge by designing a plan for a marketplace. The coveted prize was an opportunity to study with the prominent American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. One of Wright's influences was to suggest to Quinn to seek medical treatment for his speech impediment. Quinn did and following the operation one of his methods of speech therapy was to take acting classes.
He began to act in small roles in film and television. Quinn sought Wright's advice whether should he pursue acting as a career or continue with architecture. Wright told him architecture would always be there. Playing a supporting role as Marlon Brando's brother in the 1952 film Viva Zapata! earned Quinn his first Academy Award. His second came, ironically, for depicting painter Paul Gauguin in the 1956 Vincent Minnelli directed Lust for Life, a biography of Vincent van Gogh. He was part of the ensemble in The Guns of Navarone and will forever be remembered as Zorba the Greek. The Artworks
Highlights of the Modern works are Henri Matisse, Auguste Renoir, Henry Moore and Karel Appel. Early works include pre-Columbian sculpture, medieval religious art and artifacts, 19th century Russian Icons and early African masks. Latin American painting is also featured, as is a selection of paintings, drawings and sculptures created by Anthony Quinn.
Anthony Quinn's Eye recently ended its run at the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, organizer of the exhibit that was the first stop in its tour of several American cities.
Anthony Quinn's Eye
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