Boca Raton Museum of Art
Design for New 44,000 Square Foot Museum in Mizner Park Opening 2001
Boca Raton, FL
561-392-2500
Boca Raton Collects: The Modernist Spirit within Private Collections
"Boca Raton Collects: The Modernist Spirit
within Private Collections" will be shown at the Boca 
Raton
Museum of Art from June 27 - September 2, 2001, and will present a total
of 50 works of art from two area collections, focusing on turn-of-the century
artistic developments that shaped American modernism. Featured works range
from the subjective realist traditions of early 20th century painters such
as Robert
Henri, William
Glackens, George Luks and Raphael
Soyer to the non-objective abstract works of Byron Browne, Ilya
Bolotowsky, Hilla Rebay, and Irene Rice Pereira. (left: J. G. Brown,
The Two Musicians, oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches, Collection of Gabriel
Auerbach; right: William Glackens, The Artist Wife and Daughter,
oil on canvas, Collection of Gabriel Auerbach)
The exhibition will introduce the viewer to 33 works from
the collection of Gabriel Auerbach, 
focusing on realist and genre painting, including
several artists associated with the Eight or the Ashcan School - Robert
Henri (1865-1929), George Luks (1867-1933), Guy Péne du Bois, and William Glackens (1870-1938). American realist artists of
the 19fh and early 20th centuries 
maintained a loyalty to realism, seeing within representation
the potential for expressing important concerns about the human condition.
They were informed by artistic developments in France at the turn of the
century, the Impressionists and by Dutch art of the 17th century, crusading
against academic art, preferring art based on real-life experience, a new
refreshing attitude of humanism. (left: Guy Pene du Bois, Sunday
Walkers, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, Collection of Gabriel Auerbach;
right: Albert Bierstadt, The
Fishing Fleet, oil on panel, 10 x 14 inches, Collection of Gabriel Auerbach)
The collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Plotch is the second
featured in Boca Raton Collects. The 17 works shown from t
his
collection focuses on abstract painting and sculpture in America during
the 1920s to 1940s, and includes many
works by significant artists of the American Abstract
Artists (AAA), an organization formed in 1936 to provide exhibition opportunities
for abstract artists and to promote understanding of abstract art.
(left: John Koch,
Red Skirt, oil on canvas, 10 x 8 inches, Collection of Gabriel Auerbach;
right: Louis
Charles Moeller, Cronies, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches,
Collection of Gabriel Auerbach)
Boca Raton Collects offers a privileged and rare view of private collections within the Boca Raton community, and addresses the psychology behind "why we collect."
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