Changes in the Collection Galleries

Many of the Center's 24 galleries present works from the collection plus long-term loans. Each collection gallery is dedicated to a distinct era or type of art. Together the galleries span the history of art from ancient China and Egypt to the 21st century. Works in the galleries change on a regular basis.

Warhol image of MaoFreidenrich Family Gallery
Andy Warhol Prints
April 16 – December 7, 2008
One of the most famous artists of our time, Andy Warhol created prints, paintings, drawings, and films, and changed society's notions about celebrity and originality. This rotation features multiples from the Mao and Flowers Series lent by the Marmor Foundation, as well as prints from the Electric Chair Series and images of celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor and Mick Jagger.

IMAGE: Andy Warhol (U.S.A., 1928-1987). Mao Tse-Tung, 1972. Screenprint. Lent by The Marmor Foundation.

Freidenrich Family Gallery
Andy Warhol Photographs: Recent Acquisitions
December 17, 2008 – April 19, 2009
Between 1970-87 Andy Warhol shot thousands of color Polaroids and black-and-white photographs that he later used as studies for his paintings and prints. In 2007, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts established the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program and distributed gifts of Warhol’s photographs to 183 colleges and universities nationwide. The Cantor Arts Center received over 150 photographs by Warhol, including many unknown to the public. The collection displays Warhol’s contribution to the Pop Art movement, as a pioneer of celebrity photography. Highlights include Polaroids of Sylvia Williams (Mammy) and Mick Jagger that accompany two of Warhol’s large-scale prints also on display.

The Eloquence of Hands
April 16 – December 7, 2008
Traditionally, portraiture rests on the axiom that "the eye is the window to the soul."Consequently, in this view the best portraits convey the inner truth of an authentic self. But as we move ever more decisively into an age of "all-performance-all-the-time," one can recognize a counter-tradition at work in the history of portraiture. This tradition suggests that portraiture also traffics in theatricality, disguise, and performance. In this rotation, exemplary images of the hand as key to character — authentic or theatrical — allow us to imagine the hand as a stage for portraiture. Works by Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Auguste Rodin, and others are on view.
IMAGE: Berenice Abbott (USA, 1898-1991), Portrait of James Joyce, 1925. Gelatin-silver print. Committee for Art Acquisitions Fund, 1986.232

Early Modern Gallery
Recent Acquisitions
February 27, 2008 – February 15, 2009
Loans of art by Stuart Davis and Albert Gleizes complement the Center's collection. Several new acquisitions, including works
by Hans Arp, Stanley Hayter, and Grant Wood are featured.
IMAGE: Hans Arp, Silent, 1942. Stone, marble, metal. Given in honor of Ruth Halperin by Mr. and Mrs. John Freidenrich

Madeleine H. Russell Gallery
Chinese Contemporary Art on loan from Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Kwee
While Chinese contemporary art demonstrates the continuity of cultural tradition in the use of media and imagery that resonate with the past, it also mirrors the dramatic changes that China has undergone in the recent past, particularly since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. Liu Xiaodong's recent oil painting A Highway Near the Yangzi is among works on view.

Patricia S. Rebele Gallery
Painting from the Ancient Mediterranean
September 3 – April 12
This rotation presents two objects — a 6th century B.C. Greek drinking bowl and a 2nd- or 3rd- century Egyptian portrait — from the Ancient Mediterranean collection. The larger collection of such objects is off view for several months due to the reinstallation of the Rodin sculptures.

Rowland K. Rebele Gallery
Invention and Eloquence
April 23, 2008 – March 8, 2009
Displays by students in John Tinker's Program in Writing and Rhetoric course, "Objects of Argument," offer critical contexts for the newly acquired Neoclassic painting by Francois-Andre Vincent of Zeuxis Choosing His Models for the Image of Helen from Among the Women of Croton. This painting, currently on view in the Early Europe gallery, will also be featured in the museum's celebration of recent acquisitions, which opens in the Pigott Family Gallery in November.

Robert Mondavi Family Gallery
Recent Acquisitions
October 8, 2008 – March 15, 2009
This rotation of works on paper includes recent acquisitions and promised gifts in conjunction with the major exhibition in the Pigott Family Gallery, Dürer to Picasso. Also highlighted is the dialogue between Western and Japanese artists, as seen in Toyohara Chikanobu’s woodblockprint of a woman dressed in the latest Parisian style and in Félix Buhot’s etchings of Japanese objects.

Early European Gallery
Goltzius and His Circle
October 8, 2008 – March 15, 2009
In addition to making his own engravings and woodcuts, Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) also produced designs for a large circle of artists, which he published and distributed throughout Europe. Including promised gifts from the collection of Kirk Edward Long and the Center's own collection, this exhibition complements the show on Goltzius himself by highlighting works by the artists in his immediate circle. Included are a series depicting the Adriaen de Vries Rape of a Sabine by Jan Muller, a recently acquired Mars and Venus by Jacob Matham after a design by Goltzius, who was his father-in-law, and other prints for which Goltzius provided designs. In addition to highlighting Goltzius's influence, this selection also demonstrates the range of secular and religious subject matter popular at this time.



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