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A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Ft. Marion
Tuesday, Jan 22, 2008 through Sunday, Mar 16, 2008
This exhibition contains illustrations made in 1877 by Etahdleuh Doanmoe, a Kiowa who was among 72 Indians captured by the U. S. Army during the Plains Wars and incarcerated for three years at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. The inscriptions, photographs and drawings in Doanmoe’s remarkable sketchbook chronicle scenes of life on the plains, surrender to military forces in Oklahoma, the journey to Florida, and experiences at the fort.
Sponsored by:
Elkins Constructors, Inc.
Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville
Joseph Jeffers Dodge: A Passion for Art
Tuesday, Oct 9, 2007 through Sunday, Mar 9, 2008
Joseph Jeffers (“Jerry”) Dodge (1917-1997) was an important figure in the history of art and culture in Jacksonville. His legacies within and outside the community are multi-faceted. As Director of The Cummer from 1962 to 1972, he made significant acquisitions for the museum’s collection, instituted a vibrant exhibition program and established the institution as an educational resource. This special exhibition drawn from the museum’s collection focuses upon his achievement as a painter.
Largely self-taught, Dodge’s early work demonstrated a debt to the historical artists and movements he studied and admired, particularly Renaissance art, the work of Picasso and Surrealism. As a mature painter, Dodge developed a unique style that was realist in its appearance yet highly personal and often enigmatic in terms of its meaning and symbolism.
This exhibition will provide insights about Dodge’s development as a painter and the passion that inspired him – jazz (particularly the music of Duke Ellington and his orchestra), the female figure, still life, landscape and travel.
ART in the HOUSE
Collected Works from Children at The Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless
Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007 through Sunday, Feb 24, 2008
The Cummer presents ART in the HOUSE, an exhibition of works from children at The Sulzbacher Center. This exhibition showcases the stories of 26 inspiring children, ranging from ages 3 to 23, whose life experiences are focused on survival and security. Through a series of workshops centering on dreams, storytelling, and symbolism, each child was given the opportunity to have an expressive voice, through interdisciplinary arts. Children created paintings, prints, collages, ceramic and wire sculptures over a six-week period, culminating into a collection of 70 multi-media works on exhibit at The Cummer.
For more information, call (904) 355-0630.
Art from the Ashes: In Stabiano, Exploring the Ancient Seaside Villas of the Roman Elite
Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007 through Sunday, Feb 3, 2008
Roman art from the time of ancient Pompeii will be presented at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens. On a bluff overlooking the Bay of Naples and the modern city of Castellamare di Stabia, approximately 3 miles southeast of Pompeii, are the remains of the ancient site of Stabia. For the first time in the United States, this exhibition, comprising 73 pieces, brings to light art objects and archaeological artifacts found in five ancient Roman villas built on that bluff. Wealthy Romans built luxury summer resort villas here. For a short time, these villas of extraordinary proportions, innovative design and luxurious decoration were a center of political power, wealth, culture and intrigue during the hot summer months. This thriving microcosm of privilege suffered destruction on August 24, 79 A.D., buried in ash by the same eruption that destroyed Pompeii. This stunning exhibition in the Raymond K. and Minerva Mason Gallery will be the last stop on an exclusive tour of nine American museums.
Organized by the Archaeological Superintendency of Pompeii and the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation, tour managed by International Arts & Artists, and partially sponsored by NIAF, Grand Circle Foundation and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Los Angeles.
Sponsored by:
CAPTRUST Financial Advisors
Quality Sign
Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville
Oh Say Can You See: American Art from the West Foundation Collection
Tuesday, Aug 14, 2007 through Wednesday, Jan 2, 2008
The Cummer’s presentation of this collection will feature 50 outstanding paintings by preeminent American artists from the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. Significant examples by landscape painters such as Albert Bierstadt, Edward Moran, Jasper Cropsey and Sanford R. Gifford will grace the walls of the Thomas H. Jacobsen Gallery of American Art.
Among the masterpieces in this collection will be a gorgeous view of the Via Appia, the ancient section of the great Roman road that led to Southern Italy by the American artist John Linton Chapman. Several other landscapes capture the Italian country side, among them Bierstadt's View of Subiaco, and Cropsey's Ruins at Narni, exemplifying the importance of Italy and the Grand Tour on nineteenth century American artists. Still lifes and portraits add richness and complexity to this generous showing of great American art from the West Foundation Collection.
Season Sponsors:
Fidelity National Financial
Wachovia
Exhibition Sponsor:
JP Morgan Private Bank
The Cummer Is….
Photographs by Ingrid Damiani
Tuesday, Jul 10, 2007 through Sunday, Nov 4, 2007
As is true of most museums around the country, The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens serves many roles in the community. Through a unique combination of art, gardens and education, The Cummer serves as a gathering place for people of all ages, backgrounds, interests and abilities. Connecting people to art is core to our mission and the photographs of Ingrid Damiani illustrate a few of the many ways in which these connections occur. Damiani has spent eight years documenting programs and people at The Cummer, with a special focus on initiatives that target children and adults with disabilities and other underserved audiences.
Camp Cummer Exhibition
Tuesday, Aug 7, 2007 through Sunday, Sep 30, 2007
Art Connections Gallery
For more information, call (904) 355-0630.
Art Beyond Sight
Saturday, Sep 15, 2007 through Sunday, Sep 16, 2007
Art Connections Gallery For more information, call (904) 355-0630.
Tradition in Transition: Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs
Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 through Sunday, Sep 2, 2007
This exhibition encompasses forty-five works created during the age of the Romanovs (1613-1917) and explores the interplay between Western culture and uniquely Russian traditions in icon painting. Icons created for every segment of the population are included in this presentation from unique jeweled examples created for the Imperial family to those mass-produced for the poorest peasants. Icons were considered spiritual windows to Heaven. This exhibition's examples, drawn from the collection of the Hillwood Museum and Gardens, reveal visual traditions in flux as a result of conflicting religious and political changes in Russia. Founder Marjorie Merriweather Post, heir to the Post cereal fortune and an avid collector of Russian luxury goods, formed the core of Hillwood's collection.
Organized by the Hillwood Museum and Gardens in collaboration with the Steinhardt-Sherlock Trust. Tour by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by:
Fidelity National Financial
Wachovia
"Rather Strange Developments:" Picasso, Kandinsky, and Mondrian from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Thursday, May 17, 2007 through Sunday, Aug 12, 2007
This exhibition from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute features their important collection of European modernist art. Paintings, sculptures, pastels and collages by renowned artists including Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee exemplify the avant-garde artistic movements of Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, De Stijl (also known as Neo-Plasticism), Dada and Surrealism as well as other abstract and non-objective styles.
This traveling exhibition was organized by the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York. Funding was provided, in part, by the National Endowment of the Arts, and the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency.
Sponsored by:
Fidelity National Financial
Wachovia
Regions and AmSouth Banks
Shands Jacksonville Medical Center
Project Augusta Savage Exhibition
Wednesday, Apr 25, 2007 through Sunday, Jul 15, 2007
Works of art from the partnership program between The Cummer and St. Pius and Holy Rosary Schools.
Free with museum admission.
For more information, please call 355-0630.
New View
Wednesday, Jan 31, 2007 through Tuesday, Apr 17, 2007
Works by students at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts inspired by The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art.
This cameo exhibition includes the students’ interpretations of a single work of art in the exhibition using a variety of media, such as printmaking, painting, poetry and film.
Free with museum admission.
For more information, please call 355-0630.
The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art
Thursday, Feb 1, 2007 through Tuesday, Apr 17, 2007
Dr. Walter O. Evans’ collection of African American art, one of the best currently in private hands, features 80 works drawn from the over 500 collected over the past 40 years and chronicles the achievements of artists working from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
Particular strengths of the Evans collection include significant works by artists who worked or studied art during the Harlem Renaissance. Aaron Douglas’ The Negro Speaks of Rivers {for Langston Hughes} celebrates the poet’s first poem and alludes to both the heritage of African Americans and their migrations in America. Lifelong friendships with two luminaries of American art led to the development of remarkable collections of Jacob Lawrence’s and Romare Bearden’s work within the Evans collection. More recent acquisitions include works by sculptor Richard Hunt, whose Model for the Middle Passage Monument (1987) reveals a contemporary response to the African Diaspora.
The exhibition was organized by The Walter O. Evans Foundation for Art and Literature. For more information about Dr. Evans and his collections, visit The Walter O. Evans Foundation at www.walteroevansfoundation.org.
Sponsored by:
Fidelity National Financial
Wachovia
Barbara and Reverend Carlton Jones
The Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville.
Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum
Friday, Dec 22, 2006 through Sunday, Mar 18, 2007
Presented in Jacksonville by The Cummer Council
The Cummer is pleased to present a rarely seen collection of nearly 85 masterpieces, spanning four dynasties of ancient Egypt. This exhibit is heralded as one of the foremost collections of pharaonic artifacts in the world. From sculpture and relief, to jewelry and funerary items, the exhibition showcases some of the very best of the British Museum's Egyptian Art.
Exhibition Hours:
Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday-Monday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
This exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and The British Museum. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation Fund for Collection-Based Exhibitions at the American Federation of Arts.
Japan in Jacksonville: The Cummer Collection of Japanese Prints
Thursday, Sep 14, 2006 through Sunday, Nov 12, 2006
The Cummer Museum boasts an impressive collection of nineteenth century Japanese woodblock prints. The majority of The Cummer's holdings were donated by Dennis Hayes in 1998, although other donors have also contributed important works of art. Taken as a whole, the collection provides a wide-ranging view of the styles and themes encompassed by this vibrant genre.
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, tourism in and around Edo, now Tokyo, boomed, and printmakers became merchants as they produced scenic views for the tourist market. Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849) produced the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, a landmark more than 100 miles away from the city center but sacred to its identity. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) followed with his series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo and Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces. Many of these works, created when Japan opened to foreign trade, provided Westerners with their first visual impressions of that nation. Utagawa Kunisada (1786 - 1864) is considered one of the most successful woodblock print artists of all time. His powerful images of kabuki actors and beautiful courtesans are represented in the collection. Such scenes are called ukiyo-e, images of a 'floating' or transitory, carefree world of pleasure.
The Cummer's collection of Japanese woodblock prints is a cornerstone of the museum's Asian art collection as well as a uniquely expressive art form.
Member's Opening:
Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 6 to 8 p.m.
Exhibition Sponsors:
Wachovia
Fidelity National Financial
Grune Family Foundation
AmSouth Bank
River Branch Foundation
Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville
Cameo Exhibition
Barry Wilson and Emily Arthur Douglas: Two Printmakers
Thursday, Jun 15, 2006 through Sunday, Aug 6, 2006
Cameo exhibition featuring the work of two local artisits.
A New Narrative: Marden, Fitzpatrick, Stella, Warhol
Thursday, Jun 15, 2006 through Sunday, Aug 6, 2006
A New Narrative: Marden, Fitzpatrick, Stella, Warhol presents four discrete bodies of work from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s by these artists working in a narrative mode. Brice Marden's Ten Days (1971) showcases the artist's non-representational yet evocative forms and expresses the themes and configurations of his work to date. Andy Warhol's historical Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980) features ten silkscreen prints of Jews who helped shape the face of twentieth-century life. Frank Stella's Illustrations after El Lissitzky's Had Gadya (1982-1984) consists of twelve hand colored, collaged pages with lithographic, linoleum block, and silkscreen printings inspired by the Russian Constructivist artist El Lissitzky. Tony Fizpatrick's The Infinite Wager (1998), a series of small-scale etchings with aquatint, explores the theme of luck. All the work derives from traditional methods of printmaking and invites viewers to re-examine the concept of narrative art.
The exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions (CATE). Stacy Skold and Jessica Moss, co-curators. All works courtesy of the Art Enterprises Ltd. Collection, Chicago, Illinois.
Ansel Adams and Edwin Land: Art, Science, and Invention – Photographs from the Polaroid Collection
Tuesday, Mar 28, 2006 through Sunday, Jun 4, 2006
Ansel Adams and Edwin Land: Art, Science, and Invention — Photographs from the Polaroid Collection highlights the stunning results of Ansel Adams’ work with Polaroid film and commemorated the special relationship that evolved between Adams and Polaroid Corporation, demonstrating the uncommon beauty that can occur through the conjunction of science and art.
This exhibition features over 80 prints, including vintage enlargements of his famed Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1940 and Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1960. Also featured are pristine, one-of-a-kind Polaroid black-and-white prints, four wall-size photomurals, lively correspondence and humorous postcards, and a rare example of Adams' early commercial work.
The exhibition is organized and sponsored by Polaroid Corporation and circulated by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions (CATE), Los Angeles.
Exhibition Sponsors:
Wachovia Foundation
Fidelity National Financial
Thomas H. Jacobsen Gallery of American Art
Tuesday, Nov 15, 2005 through Wednesday, May 31, 2006
The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens unveils the Thomas H. Jacobsen Gallery of American Art, the first new gallery to open at the museum since 1992. The gallery is the generous gift of Diane DeMell Jacobsen, Ph.D. in loving memory of her husband, a leading banking executive who passed away in 2002.
The inaugural exhibition will feature over 80 highlights from the personal collection of Diane DeMell Jacobsen, Ph.D. and the late Thomas H. Jacobsen. Their collection, dating from 1840 through 1947, includes master works by painters Winslow Homer, Grant Wood, Maurice Prendergast, Childe Hassam, Frederick Frieseke, Ernest Lawson, George Inness, Jasper Cropsey, William Harnett, Max Weber, Willard Metcalf, Severin Roesen, John F. Peto, Marsden Hartley and N.C. Wyeth. The exhibition will also include works by sculptors Randolph Rogers, Paul Manship and Bessie Potter Vonnoh.
FAB Fest
Future Artists of the Beaches student exhibition
Tuesday, Jan 17, 2006 through Sunday, Mar 5, 2006
Artwork created by participating students.
Beyond the Frame, Impressionism Revisited: The Sculptures of J. Seward Johnson Jr.
Thursday, Sep 29, 2005 through Sunday, Jan 8, 2006
Organized and circulated by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. D.C.
The Cummer will host the largest exhibition of J. Seward Johnson sculptures in the state of Florida. These whimsical installations are life-scale, three-dimensional representations of some of the most famous paintings from French Impressionism. Viewers will play an interactive role as they are given the opportunity to experience what it would be like to walk through some of the most well-known paintings by artists such as Monet, Renoir, Manet and Van Gogh.
Sponsors:
Compass Bank, MPS, The Main Street America Group
Picturing Jacksonville: 150 Years of Photography
Thursday, May 19, 2005 through Sunday, Aug 14, 2005
The Jacksonville Family Album: 150 Years of the Art of Photography by Dr. Wayne Wood launched on February 17 at Old St. Andrews Church forms the basis of this summer exhibition. Both showcase previously unseen original photographs of Jacksonville and provide a very personal historical perspective of the city.
"The camera is a time machine in the truest sense. Through its lens we can travel back to places we cannot otherwise go. It captures frozen time for us, and lets us revisit the past. For over 150 years photographers have captured these moments of light and provided a legacy of amazing images of Jacksonville for future generations to explore."
Dr. Wayne Wood, author and historian
Sponsored by The Grune Family Foundation
Florida as Paradise: Five Centuries of Art
Thursday, Dec 16, 2004 through Sunday, Mar 6, 2005
To the first European explorers, Florida was paradise, a primordial landscape abundant in rich flora and fauna and populated by exotic native peoples. In the Gilded Age, when Henry Flagler's railroad drew both permanent and seasonal settlers, the area was promoted as sportsmen's and naturalist's dream, an inspiring vision for artists and a healthful tourist destination. The 20th century saw the state's growth as a gracious and elegant winter capital for the wealthy, a mecca for retirees and the elderly, a playground of leisure-seekers and a modern fountain of youth. Produced later in the century, images of windswept palms, dramatic moonlit surf and luxuriant swamps filled with exotic flora and fauna reasserted Florida's reputation as a modern paradise. This exhibition chronicles Florida's allure as paradise. More than 65 works of art and visual culture, created from the first European contact in the 16th century to the present day, illustrate Florida as a real and imagined paradise.
Real to Reel: The Fabulous Years of Silent Filmmaking in Florida
Thursday, Aug 5, 2004 through Sunday, Oct 17, 2004
This exciting and interactive exhibition captures the history of silent filmmaking and examines the birth of the silent film genre through posters, memorabilia, and the films themselves. Visitors will have the opportunity to view several of these early masterpieces as part of the exhibition experience. The exhibition introduces Florida's role in the dawn of movie production and highlights the museum's recent acquisition of a collection of posters produced to advertise the films of Jacksonville's own Norman Studios.
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