Our 2/9/12 opening for our new exhibition, Life in Miniature: Asante Goldweights and Sculpture, was our best yet! Here are some pictures of the installation, which is on view until 7/27/12: Here’s the opening wall text written by our guest … Continue reading
by Alex Kelly, Oberlin College ’13 For an Art History major at a liberal arts college, graduation day approaches like a threatening deadline – representing the moment we must cast aside the comfort of textbooks and research papers and enter … Continue reading
The Foundation’s next special exhibit, Life in Miniature: Asante Goldweights and Sculpture, will feature around 70 works from Chaim Gross’s renowned African art collection. It will also include travel sketchbooks and photographs from Chaim’s trip to Ghana in 1968 and … Continue reading
As Chanukah begins today we share with you the luminous imagery of Chaim’s ‘The Jewish Holidays,” 11 watercolors that were made into lithographic sets in 1968. A full set of the lithographs is at the Foundation for viewing by appointment, … Continue reading
The Foundation mourns the loss of our dear friend, William Siegmann, Curator Emeritus of the Arts of Africa at the Brooklyn Museum. Here is Kevin Dumouchelle’s tribute to his mentor Siegmann from November 29, 2011.
The history of direct carving in America, by artists like William Zorach, John Flannagan, Robert Laurent, and Chaim Gross during the first half of the 20th century, remains to be written. This history would reveal a large group of incredibly beautiful objects … Continue reading
The blog of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eye Level, has a nice recent tribute on the retirement of George Gurney, one of the foremost experts on American sculpture and most recently Acting Chief Curator at the Smithsonian. The Foundation is grateful to Dr. … Continue reading
One of the most fascinating aspects of working at an artist-endowed foundation is facilitating and helping to shape the ongoing construction and reevaluation of an artist’s biography and oeuvre. Each new generation of scholars and curators sees artists, their work, … Continue reading
Chaim Gross (above, c. 1955) was one of the most important collectors of African art in America in the twentieth century. There are many fascinating intersections and questions that need to be researched about this topic, such as the relation … Continue reading
The Foundation’s current exhibit, Displayed: Stages For Sculpture, was drawn from our collection of over 1,000 archival photographs and highlights how photographers participated in the portrayal of sculpture during the twentieth century. Almost all of the photographers featured in the … Continue reading