Past Exhibitions

Voyages to the New World: Jacques Le Moyne and Theodor de Bry

Friday, Oct 16, 2009 through Sunday, Jan 10, 2010

In 1564, René de Laudonnière led the second voyage of the French to Florida, landing in a part of Florida that was densely populated by the Timucua people. The expedition constructed Fort Caroline, a settlement on the St. Johns River in modern Jacksonville, which was occupied by Huguenot explorers for fifteen months. Included in this expedition was Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (c. 1533-1588), a French artist and mapmaker who documented the settlement and the Timucua. His original watercolors were lost when the French fled from a Spanish attack, but engravings based on his drawings were published in 1591 by the Flemish bookseller and publisher Theodor de Bry. De Bry produced the copper engravings with the help of his two sons, Jan Theodor and Jan Israel. This volume constitutes a major landmark in the literature of the early exploration of the Americas.

Sponsors: Elkins Constructors, Inc., Laura and Billy Howell, Mrs. Barbara H. Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. Willis M. Ball III, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Barnett, Mr. Bill Gardner, Mrs. Edward W. Lane, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Rosenbloom, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Shircliff, City of Jacksonville, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, Inc., State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Botanical Watercolors by Jacques Le Moyne

Friday, Oct 16, 2009 through Sunday, Jan 10, 2010

The extraordinary career of the Huguenot artist Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (c. 1533 – 1588) have only recently been defined and described. The Cummer not only highlights two important facets of this artist’s career, but also illuminates contemporary connections to the work of Jacques Le Moyne, the first European artist to travel to North America.

Le Moyne was among a rare and exclusive group of artists who specialized in botanical images. Sixty-one extraordinary botanical paintings, executed in watercolor and gouache, are presented in the exhibition. These works were part of a series of 80 plates removed from a single manuscript, considered to be Le Moyne’s finest achievements.

Sponsors: Elkins Constructors, Inc., Laura and Billy Howell, Mrs. Barbara H. Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. Willis M. Ball III, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Barnett, Mr. Bill Gardner, Mrs. Edward W. Lane Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Rosenbloom, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Shircliff, City of Jacksonville, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, Inc., State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Artist Response: Botanicals

Friday, Oct 16, 2009 through Sunday, Jan 10, 2010

Jacksonville artists Linda Broadfoot, Emily Arthur Douglass, and Susan Ober create contemporary works of art all inspired by traditional botanical illustrations. Explore the ways in which they use photography, printmaking, and drawing to reinterpret Le Moyne’s watercolors.

Sponsors: Elkins Constructors, Inc., Laura and Billy Howell, Mrs. Barbara H. Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. Willis M. Ball III, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Barnett, Mr. Bill Gardner, Mrs. Edward W. Lane Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Rosenbloom, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Shircliff, City of Jacksonville, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, Inc., State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Members Free, Non-Members $10

For more information, call (904) 356-6857.

New View: Botanicals

Friday, Oct 16, 2009 through Sunday, Jan 10, 2010

The New View program is a partnership with the Visual Arts and Creative Writing departments at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. Inspired by the tradition of Le Moyne’s botanical watercolors, students will use their newly xeriscaped front lawn to create works of art in a variety of mediums.

Sponsors: Elkins Constructors, Inc., Laura and Billy Howell, Mrs. Barbara H. Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. Willis M. Ball III, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Barnett, Mr. Bill Gardner, Mrs. Edward W. Lane Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Rosenbloom, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Shircliff, City of Jacksonville, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, Inc., State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Members Free, Non-Members $10

For more information, call (904) 356-6857.

Paul Jenkins: Works from Jacksonville Collections

Friday, Jun 12, 2009 through Sunday, Aug 9, 2009

Paul Jenkins is an important figure in post-World War II American Abstraction. He is best known for his painterly explorations of color, form, and light. A student of Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League of New York, Jenkins has received international acclaim for his colorful creations in acrylic, oil, and watercolor. Now in his 80s, Jenkins continues to exhibit in America and Europe. His works can be found in the collections of major museums, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.

This exhibition is drawn from the collections of Margie and Graham Allen, Steve and Diane Halverson, Preston H. Haskell, The Haskell Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, and Elli and Charles Zimmerman.

SPONSORS:

The Haskell Company

Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, Inc.

City of Jacksonville

A Survey of Gee's Bend Quilts

For more information about the exhibition, please visit www.tinwoodmedia.com.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 through Sunday, Aug 2, 2009

In 1998, when William Arnett and his son Matt visited Gee’s Bend, Alabama, the quilters of the tiny rural town had no idea that in just four years, their lives would change.

The quilts they created as necessities would be showcased at major art museums across the United States and praised by the New York Times as “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced.”

The tour of The Quilts of Gee’s Bend has brought a renewed sense of pride for the women of the community. Their creations were originally the products of thrift and necessity: fabric scraps and worn out work-clothes were transformed into warm quilts.

Today, the quiltmakers are free to explore their creativity as artists and their bold colors and expressive designs communicate an enjoyment of freedom and hopeful possibility.

Sponsors: Elkins Constructors, Inc, CSX Transportation, CAPTRUST Financial Advisors, Inc., Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, Inc., City of Jacksonville

Folio Weekly Invitational Artist Exhibition

Wednesday, Apr 15, 2009 through Sunday, May 31, 2009

In conjunction with Folio Weekly, The Cummer presents a selection of works by some of the area’s top artists.

The exhibition features 33 works by 18 local artists chosen through a meticulous selection process that reviewed submissions from over 300 artists. The exhibition includes paintings, photography, mixed media, works on paper and sculpture representing a full range of styles.

Featured artists include:

Brian Gray, Casey Matthews, Chad Landenberger, Clay Doran, Daryl Bunn, David Hansford, Edmund Dansart, Matt Abercrombie, Franklin Matthews, James Greene, Jose Cue, Leigh-Ann Sullivan, Christina Foard, Logan Zawacki, Mark Estlund, Matthew Bennet, Sarah Crooks Flaire and Zac Freeman.

For more information about the exhibition, please click the link below to read the press release:

http://www.cummer.org/about/this_press_release.cfm?PressReleaseGK=37

Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Thursday, Feb 5, 2009 through Sunday, Apr 12, 2009

Featuring masterpieces by Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Arthur G. Dove, Stuart Davis, and Marsden Hartley, the Lane Collection is considered to be one of the greatest collections of American modernism. William H. Lane (1914–1995), owner of a small Massachusetts manufacturing plant, formed his pioneering collection in the early 1950s when these painters were little understood, though today when they are considered to be the most important American artists of the early twentieth century.

This exhibition of 45 paintings traces the development and diversity of American Modernism through the eyes of a passionate collector. Such iconic images as O’Keeffe’s Deer’s Skull with Pedernal, Sheeler’s Ore into Iron, and Dove’s That Red One are included in the show.

This exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Sponsors:

Elkins Constructors, Inc.

AT&T

Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville

City of Jacksonville

Women of Vision

Tuesday, Aug 5, 2008 through Sunday, Mar 22, 2009

For the past 10 years, a group of women, who are low vision or blind, has entered the doors of The Cummer to find fulfillment through the communicative power of the visual and literary arts. The exhibition of art and writing created as part of the Women of Vision program is on display in the museum’s galleries. For many of the women, this program has afforded the opportunity to take part in their very first art experience; for others, it is the continuation of a life-long creative pursuit. The women have used their hands to create powerful works of art and their minds to produce moving literary compositions. Most importantly, this experiment in “seeing” has served as a vehicle for personal reflection and the building of community to those who were previously isolated. This 10-year anniversary exhibition acknowledges the importance of access programming in museums and the national prominence of the Women of Vision program.

Sponsors:

Vistakon, The W.W. and Eloise D. Gay Foundation, WJCT Radio Reading Service, Kraft Foods, VSA Arts of Florida, CYPIX, Wingard Creative, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville and the City of Jacksonville

Florida Highwaymen Paintings and Prison Murals: Al Black and the Florida Highwaymen

Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 through Sunday, Jan 4, 2009

Al Black spent the 1960s and 1970s selling paintings by The Highwaymen, a group of Florida artists. Eventually, he started making his own canvases. Life was good. By the 1980s, however, the demand for Highwaymen creations was slowing, and by the late 1990s, Al Black found himself in jail.

While housed at the Central Florida Reception Center near Orlando, Black’s past as a Highwayman artist was discovered by the Warden, and Black was allowed the opportunity to paint murals throughout the CFRC.

Author Gary Monroe, best known for his books on the Highwaymen, has photographed Black’s murals, and is in the process of completing a book on the same subject. As Monroe says, Al Black’s prison murals allow a glimpse into another world, where a painting can offer “an artful prescription to alleviate what ails many desperate lives.”

Season Sponsor

Elkins Constructors, Inc.

Sponsors:

Fogle Fine Art & Accessories

Carl S. Swisher Foundation, Inc.

Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville

City of Jacksonville

Phil Sandusky: Jacksonville through a painter’s eye

Tuesday, Sep 9, 2008 through Sunday, Oct 5, 2008

Phil Sandusky (b. 1957), a Jacksonville native and artist now living and working in New Orleans, established his artistic reputation by painting scenes of his adopted city, before and after Hurricane Katrina. His working method is to set up his easel in a particular spot, in the open air (“en-plein-air”), rendering with his brush an immediate and glowing impression of the scene in front of his eyes. An exhibition of highly characteristic and colorful pictures of Jacksonville follows on the heels of his New Orleans’ paintings. His painterly observations are recognizable and compelling, whether he sets up his easel in Jacksonville’s downtown area or in traditional neighborhoods and forgotten cul-de-sacs. The bridges over the St. Johns River, the shrimp boats at Mayport and the Northeast Florida beaches and marshes have found a 21^st century Impressionist interpreter. Phil Sandusky serves as an instructor of landscape and life painting at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts.

Season Sponsors:

Elkins Constructors, Inc.

Fidelity National Information Services

MPS Group

Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville

City of Jacksonville

Precious Gifts of Asian Art

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.

Scalpel to Sketch: the science and beauty of medical illustration at Mayo Clinic

Thursday, Jul 10, 2008 through Sunday, Sep 28, 2008

This exhibition examines the vital role that medical artists and their illustrations occupy in advancing the study and practice of medicine. Medical illustrations are used by physicians to share their techniques, by researchers to find answers, by medical students to learn and by patients to understand.

Mayo Clinic has one of the largest collections of medical illustration in the world with more than 60,000 pieces; about 150 of which are on display. The exhibition features original medical art rendered in a variety of media such as carbon dust, pen and ink, watercolor, airbrush and digital media. The illustrations range from interpretations of the human form to animated voyages inside the human body, studies of the brain, molecules and gene clusters, skeletons, and a rare look at the unique anatomy of conjoined twins.

Exhibition Sponsor:

Mayo Clinic

Program Sponsors:

Elkins Constructors, Inc.

Fidelity National Information Services

Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville

City of Jacksonville

PSS

Pete and Marilyn Carpenter

The Weaver Academy of Art

Art Connections Gallery

Monday, Jun 30, 2008 through Monday, Aug 4, 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

Project Augusta Savage

Art Connections Gallery

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

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.

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.