April Issue 2000
Asheville Art Museum Features Contemporary Prints and Vintage Photographs
The Asheville Art Museum, in Asheville, NC, is excited to present an exhibition of outstanding works from the A.G. Edwards and Sons Corporate Art Collection, which will be on view through May 26, 2000. Based in St. Louis, MO, this corporate collection contains almost 3000 objects- including important holdings of prints, posters, photographs and maps. Curated by the Asheville Art Museum, Innovation and Insight focuses attention on outstanding contemporary prints from the 1980s and 90s and vintage photographs, most of which were created between 1930 and 1955.
A.G. Edwards began their corporate collection in 1967 by collecting 19th century American prints. Since that time the collection has expanded to include examples of a wide variety of works on paper spanning 200 years. The collection is an outstanding resource for employees, artists and communities throughout the United States. It is particularly appropriate at this time to look at this outstanding example of a corporate art collection, because the current installation of the Asheville Art Museum's permanent collection of 20th century American art looks at collectors and collections in Western North Carolina.
Innovation and Insight will present a wide range of works showcasing renowned American artists who variously explore Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Minimalism- important movements of the 20th century. The exhibition will include prints by Jennifer Bartlett, Louise Bourgeois, Christo, Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mangold, Robert Motherwell, Elizabeth Murray, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Paschke, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Sean Scully, Richard Serra, Pat Steir and Andy Warhol.
The photographs from the A.G. Edwards Corporate collection include work by both American and European photographers from 1930-1950. These photographers worked in a wide range of approaches from Edward Weston's carefully composed still-lifes and landscapes to Weegee's sometimes comic, often tragic images of life on the streets of New York. Other photographers in this exhibition include Berenice Abbott, Karel Hajek, William Clift, Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Andreas Feiniger, Ernst Haas, Russell Lee, Joel Meyerowitz, Aaron Siskind, Bohurnil Stastny, Josef Sudek, W. Eugene Smith and Max Yavno.
Innovation and Insight is sponsored in part by Deborah A. Moeller, C.F.P., Vice President of Investments and Ben Lewis, Associate Vice President of Investments for A.G. Edwards and Sons, Inc., Asheville, NC.
The Asheville Art Museum Shop will feature books and other items related to the exhibition as well as current books on American art of the twentieth century. Museum members receive a 10% discount on all purchases. Proceeds from the Museum Shop support the Museum's public programs.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call the musuem at 828/253-3227.
Mailing Address: Carolina Arts, P.O. Drawer
427, Bonneau, SC 29431
Telephone, Answering Machine and FAX: 843/825-3408
E-Mail: carolinart@aol.com
Subscriptions are available for $18 a year.
Carolina Arts
is published monthly by Shoestring
Publishing Company, a subsidiary of PSMG, Inc.
Copyright© 2000 by PSMG, Inc., which published Charleston
Arts from July 1987 - Dec. 1994 and South Carolina Arts
from Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1996. It also publishes Carolina Arts
Online, Copyright© 2000 by PSMG, Inc. All rights reserved
by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. Reproduction or use
without written permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina
Arts is available throughout North & South Carolina.