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September Issue 2005
Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, Celebrates Centennial Anniversary with Retrospective Exhibition
Since its doors opened at 135 Meeting Street in Charleston, SC, on Apr. 11, 1905, the Gibbes Museum of Art has featured exhibitions of nationally and internationally prominent artists and art collectors, and has played a significant role in shaping the careers of burgeoning regional artists. On Sept. 9, 2005, the Gibbes opens the exhibition, 100 Years at the Gibbes, a centennial retrospective, celebrating the first one hundred years of landmark exhibitions presented at the Museum.
Originally named the James S. Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery, the Gibbes Museum of Art is the oldest museum building in the Southeast constructed for the express purpose of the exhibition of paintings. Since its inaugural exhibition in 1905, the first in a series of annual exhibitions that circulated from New York featuring such well-known artists as Robert Henri (American, 1865 - 1929), William Merrit Chase (American, 1849 - 1916), and Elliot Daingerfield (American, 1859 - 1932), the Gibbes has hosted over 1,300 exhibitions. From serving as the focal point for the organization of the Southern States Art League in the 1920s to functioning as the site for the first-ever public showing of the Solomon Guggenheim collection of non-objective art in the 1930s, to becoming the principal venue for the visual arts component of Spoleto Festival USA in the 1980s the Gibbes has a long history of momentous exhibitions.
As the Gibbes prepares to enter its second century, the exhibition 100 Years at the Gibbes revisits pivotal exhibitions in the Museum's history through a combination of major works of art, historic photographs and archival materials. 100 Years at the Gibbes opens in the Garden and Balcony Galleries of the Gibbes Museum of Art on Sept. 9 and will be on view through Jan. 1, 2006.
Several special programs are being planned in conjunction with this exhibition including:
On Sept. 10, 2005, 10am-8pm - Gibbes 100th Birthday Celebration. Celebrate the Museum's 100th birthday with special fifty cents admission - the 1905 admission price. Enjoy festivities at the Gibbes throughout the day with birthday cake, art activities, performances and Museum Store giveaways, and a Retro Birthday Bash from 5-8pm.
On Oct. 7, 2005, 12:30-1:30pm - Friday Feast:
Art for Lunch. Gibbes Chief Curator Angela D. Mack leads this
informal lunchtime gallery talk on the exhibition 100 Years
at the Gibbes. In partnership with Bishop Gadsden. The
gallery talk is free with admission to the Museum.
Media support for this exhibition is provided by Citadel Communications.
The following exhibits are also on view at the Gibbes: Through
Dec. 4, 2005, Carolina in Focus: Photographs from the Craft
Collection, in the Charleston Renaissance Gallery. This exhibition
features a selection of black and white photographs from Joy Craft's
collection, an outstanding private collection dedicated to supporting
art and artists of South Carolina. And, through Sept. 25, 2005,
Cold Winter Scenes for Hot Summer Days, in the Japanese
Print Gallery. Featuring a selection of woodblock prints
from the Gibbes's Read-Simms Collection, this exhibition includes
famous winter scenes by Ando Hiroshige alongside works by various
Japanese masters that illustrate the cold days and the beautiful
deep snows of Japanoffering a refreshing retreat from a steamy
Lowcountry summer day.
For additional information check our SC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the Gibbes at 843/722-2706 or at (www.gibbesmuseum.org).
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