Happy 75th Anniversary!

Posted by Mary Murray on October 21st 2011 | 0 Comments

Tags: Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute 75th Anniversary

Happy 75th Anniversary to and from Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute.

The Museum of Art staff is working diligently on the upcoming celebratory exhibition, Enhancing a Legacy: Gifts, Promised Gifts, and Acquisitions in Honor of the Museum of Art’s 75th Anniversary. It opens with a reception on Saturday, October 29.

The show features new pieces from each of the Museum’s three curatorial departments: 19th-Century Decorative Arts, 19th-century Fine Arts, and Modern and Contemporary Art. Some of the recent acquisitions will be familiar to regular visitors to the Museum, but others are being unveiled for the first time, very exciting.

Here is a sneak peak of what you will see.

This fabulous wicker chair was produced by Heyward Brothers & Co., Gardner, Massachusetts, in 1890:

Reception Chair, 1890, Heyward & Bros., Gardner, Massachusetts

Carrie Mae Weems’s provocative photograph:

Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (from the Kitchen Table Series)

And Jane Edden’s mysterious video installation:

Jane Edden, Colony, 2004

Picture captions:

Reception Chair, 1890, Heyward Brothers & Co. (active 1826-97), , Gardner, Massachusetts, wood and rattan, 44 x 33 x 20 in., 75th Anniversary Acquisition. Museum purchase, by exchange, with funds from Gregory Smith in memory of Margaret Skinner Smith, and from the Estate of Sarah T. Norris, 2009.3.

Carrie Mae Weems (American, born 1953), Untitled (from the Kitchen Table series), gelatin silver print, 28 x 28 in., 75th Anniversary Acquisition. Museum purchase, 2010.37

Jane Edden (British), Colony, 2004, video installation, 75th Anniversary Acquisition. Gift of Richard Blumental & Linda Morgan, 2010.41.

The Museum of Art thanks the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Inc., our, 75th Anniversary Partner.