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From the Vault: Building a Legacy, Sixty Years of Collecting at the Lowe Art Museum
Washington Allston, United States, 1779-1843
Mother and Child,
oil on canvas, 49 ½ x 40 ¼”
Gift of The Washington Allston Trust, 56.141.000
To commemorate its 60th Anniversary, the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami will present the exhibition, “From the Vault: Building a Legacy, Sixty Years of Collecting at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami,” on January 28, 2012.
The Lowe’s collections span 5,000 years of world art history in virtually every media. Highlights of its distinguished collecting history will be featured in this anniversary exhibition, which draws from some 18,000 works of art.
The exhibition will be a rare opportunity to showcase important objects not currently on exhibition or that may never have been seen by the faculty, students, or the general public.
It will include paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and mixed media works of art that represent the unique, multi-cultural holdings of the Lowe.
After being housed for two years in two classrooms in the University’s George E. Merrick Building, the Lowe Art Museum opened its doors on February 4, 1952 as the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery.
The exhibition will be divided into the three sections: The Foundation Years, 1952-1969; The Formative Years, 1970-1989; and Building the Legacy, 1990-and beyond.
While the Lowe has permanent galleries devoted to each of its major collecting areas, there are significant holdings that, due to current space constraints, have not been on exhibition for a number of years.
The Lowe Art Museum is one of the University of Miami’s cultural gems making the Coral Gables campus a prime destination to partake in a rich variety of artistic offerings.
The museum houses South Florida’s largest and most varied art collection and hosts traveling exhibitions.
The show will open January 28, 2012 and will continue on view through March 25, 2012.
(Source: whatsupmiami.blogspot.com)
