Louise Nevelson Work of Art Cleaned in Nelson-Atkins Gallery While Visitors Watch

KANSAS CITY, MO.- It’s not often that museum visitors actually see a pair of hands working on a work of art, but that’s what will be on view at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art beginning Feb. 9 through Feb. 25. Louise Nevelson’s End of Day Nightscape IV will receive a thorough cleaning, paint consolidation and replacement of lost paint in the gallery in the Bloch Building, and visitors can watch the careful process. “This work is always done behind the scenes,” [...]

Major 20th-Century Private Sculpture Collection Goes to Chazen Museum of Art

MADISON, WI.- A major private collection of 20th-century sculpture will be made accessible to the public in its new home at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The museum announced the gift of the renowned Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection, comprising more than 70 sculptures and 250 preparatory drawings by artists including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Pablo Picasso, and David Smith, among other modern masters. The works will be installed in the museum’s [...]

Florida Museum Receives Monumental Louise Nevelson Installation

NAPLES, FL.- The Naples Museum of Art in Florida has received, through a generous corporate gift, Louise Nevelson’s largest sculpture installation and her last major work, Dawn’s Forest. Commissioned and owned by Georgia-Pacific LLC and MetLife for the Georgia-Pacific Center in Atlanta, Dawn’s Forest has been part of a corporate collection since it was created in the 1980s and has never been shown in a museum setting. It is Nevelson’s largest and most complex sculptural environment, containing elements culled from [...]

Exhibition Dedicated to the Works of Women Artists Opens at The Chrysler

NORFOLK, VA.- This spring, as the Commonwealth of Virginia celebrates the role of women in the arts through the statewide initiative, MINDS WIDE OPEN, the Chrysler Museum does the same with “Women of the Chrysler: A 400-Year Celebration of the Arts”, an extraordinary new exhibition dedicated to the works of women artists – all of them drawn from our permanent collection. This expansive show fills both the Large and Small Changing Galleries with more than 150 works by women painters, [...]

Delaware Art Museum Presents Women Collared for Work

WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum presents Women Collared for Work, featuring paintings, drawings, sculptures, and mixed media installations by eight female artists, on view February 6, 2010 – March 21, 2010. The artists explore both the well-known contributions and anonymous stories of women spanning more than 100 years of history—1889 to 1999. They interpret the collar as a symbol for the restraint, inspiration, and innovation of powerful female icons representing a range of occupations. Rivets, 2008. Judith Schwab. Collage [...]