Special Exhibitions

Project Augusta Savage

Art Connections Gallery

Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008 through Sunday, Jun 29, 2008

Tuesday, Mar 25, 2008 through Sunday, Jul 13, 2008

This exhibition is both a celebration of one of our community’s greatest resources, the St. Johns River, and the power of partnerships. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a nearly 30-foot mixed media mural created by students at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. In addition, works of art from The Cummer’s Collection, including watercolors and prints by Winslow Homer, Frederick Frieseke and Theodor de Bry will be included to give a visual history of how artists have experienced the river.

The exhibition, school curriculum and related public programs explore the role of the river in our lives and the role of our human existence in the life of the river. Students, and now visitors to the exhibition, are asked to think about issues as diverse as the social history of the river, the economic impact of the river on our local economy and the importance of preserving the river. Through a humanities-based approach, with visual art at the center, the experience promises to be a unique one for our community.

A collaboration in the truest sense, New View: The Many Faces of the St. Johns River, is a result of a partnership between The Cummer, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, The St. Johns Riverkeeper, Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT), Museum of Science and History, Ritz Theater and La Villa Museum, The Jacksonville Public Libraries, Dr. Carolyn Williams, History Professor at UNF, artist Sarah Crooks Flaire and the Florida Humanities Council. The exhibition will travel to multiple venues throughout the city of Jacksonville and will be accompanied by a wide variety of programs for children, families and adults.

This exhibition is underwritten by Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT). Programming is sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council, the state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Exhibition sponsored by Haskell

Ernest Hemingway and Walker Evans: Three Weeks in Cuba, 1933

Saturday, Mar 8, 2008 through Sunday, Jun 1, 2008

This exhibition displays 37 vintage photographic prints by Walker Evans and seven prints copied by Evans, that were found among Ernest Hemingway’s possessions after his death, along with notes, and personal artifacts. These documents and images reveal a friendship between the two men in Havana during a time of growing political instability. This set of Evans prints that Hemingway acquired in 1933 and stored away for years has never been exhibited until recently.

Ernest Hemingway and Walker Evans: Three Weeks in Cuba, 1933 is organized by the Key West Museum of Art & History at the Custom House, Florida and is toured by Curatorial Assistance, Inc., Pasadena, California.

Friday, Jul 20, 2007 through Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008

A choice presentation of recent gifts by longtime Cummer friends such as Dr. Diane DeMell Jacobsen and Dr. Walter Scott. Among the “precious gifts” one will find Japanese scroll paintings, Han Dynasty ceramic horses, two Ming Dynasty jars, and netsuke and inro objects.