Boca Raton Museum of Art
Boca Raton, FL
561-392-2500
http://www.bocamuseum.org/
Boca Raton Collects: The
Modernist Spirit within Private Collections
"Boca Raton Collects: The Modernist Spirit
within Private Collections" will be shown at the Boca 
Raton
Museum of Art from June 27 - September 2, 2001, and will present a total
of 50 works of art from two area collections, focusing on turn-of-the century
artistic developments that shaped American modernism. Featured works range
from the subjective realist traditions of early 20th century painters such
as Robert Henri, William Glackens, George Luks and Raphael Soyer to the
non-objective abstract works of Byron Browne, Ilya Bolotowsky, Hilla Rebay,
and Irene Rice Pereira. (left: J. G. Brown, The Two Musicians,
oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches, Collection of Gabriel Auerbach; right: William
Glackens, The Artist Wife and Daughter, oil on canvas, Collection
of Gabriel Auerbach)
The exhibition will introduce the viewer to 33 works from
the collection of Gabriel Auerbach, 
focusing on realist and genre painting, including
several artists associated with the Eight or the Ashcan School - Robert
Henri (1865-1929), George Luks (1867-1933), Guy Péne du Bois, and
William Glackens (1870-1938). American realist artists of the 19fh and early
20th centuries 
maintained
a loyalty to realism, seeing within representation the potential for expressing
important concerns about the human condition. They were informed by artistic
developments in France at the turn of the century, the Impressionists and
by Dutch art of the 17th century, crusading against academic art, preferring
art based on real-life experience, a new refreshing attitude of humanism.
(left: Guy Pene du Bois, Sunday Walkers, oil on canvas, 24
x 20 inches, Collection of Gabriel Auerbach; right: Albert Bierstadt, The
Fishing Fleet, oil on panel, 10 x 14 inches, Collection of Gabriel Auerbach)
The collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Plotch is the second
featured in Boca Raton Collects. The 17 works shown from t
his
collection focuses on abstract painting and sculpture in America during
the 1920s to 1940s, and includes many
works by significant artists of the American Abstract
Artists (AAA), an organization formed in 1936 to provide exhibition opportunities
for abstract artists and to promote understanding of abstract art.
(left: John Koch, Red Skirt, oil on canvas, 10 x 8 inches, Collection
of Gabriel Auerbach; right: Louis Charles Moeller, Cronies, oil on
canvas, 18 x 24 inches, Collection of Gabriel Auerbach)
Boca Raton Collects offers
a privileged and rare view of private collections within the Boca Raton
community, and addresses the psychology behind "why we collect."
Read more about the Boca
Raton Museum of Art in Resource Library
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For further biographical information on selected artists
cited above please see America's Distinguished
Artists, a national registry of historic artists.
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"Boca Raton Collects: The Modernist Spirit
within Private Collections" will be shown at the Boca 
Raton
Museum of Art from June 27 - September 2, 2001, and will present a total
of 50 works of art from two area collections, focusing on turn-of-the century
artistic developments that shaped American modernism. Featured works range
from the subjective realist traditions of early 20th century painters such
as Robert Henri, William Glackens, George Luks and Raphael Soyer to the
non-objective abstract works of Byron Browne, Ilya Bolotowsky, Hilla Rebay,
and Irene Rice Pereira. (left: J. G. Brown, The Two Musicians,
oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches, Collection of Gabriel Auerbach; right: William
Glackens, The Artist Wife and Daughter, oil on canvas, Collection
of Gabriel Auerbach)
