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| May 23, 2015 |
Time:
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
The exhibitions will be on display from May 23- September 6, 2015. Museum admission is free courtesy of JCSM Business Partners. Plan your visit at jcsm.auburn.edu.
Between
the Black and Caspian Seas: Antique Rugs from the Caucus - Selections from the Collection of Larry Gerber. Over
the centuries, the Caucasus region became a mixture of numerous cultures and ideas that reflects the comings and goings of both interlopers and natives. Because of this diverse and rich history, the influences and customs of Byzantium, Islam, Central Asian
Turks, as well as the Ottoman Empire and Europeanized Imperial Russia, are all part of traditional Caucasus weaving. This exhibition focuses on the Caucasus textile tradition, specifically hand-woven carpets. For the most part, self-employed women weavers working
out of their homes and villages sustained this craft.
"The
Greatest Poem" - American Art in the Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Mark Thornton Collection. Auburn
collectors Bob Ekelund and Mark Thornton share a passion for art, one that is eclectic in taste, inclusive, and celebratory of the human spirit. Ekelund’s earlier and longtime study of
modern Mexican art has gradually given way to a new focus on American art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries––the
period when this young nation began to find its own confident voice in the world. American artists at the turn of the century made a collective turn from emulating European modes to exploring
and forging new indigenous idioms. Of course, the melting pot of cultures that composed the United States ensured that the search for modern native expression would take many paths, and
be rich and vibrant and contradictory. The Ekelund/Thornton collection includes examples by George Inness and Gustave Baumann that depict the transcendent beauty of our diverse landscape,
images by George Bellows and Edward Hopper that draw attention to the common man, and compositions by artists ranging from Winslow Homer to Arthur Dove that trace a transition from realism to abstraction.
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