Claude Monet. Etretat, Beach and Falaise d’ Aval, 1883. Oil on canvas. Private Collection.
Jacob van Ruisdael. View of Haarlem, early 1670s. Oil on canvas. Collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo.
Alexandre Falguière. Portrait of Woman, n.d. Oil on canvas. Olga Hirschhorn Collection.
Louis Eilshemius. Seated Nude at Pond Holding Tree Branch, n.d. Oil on canvas. Olga Hirschhorn Collection.
Robert De Niro, Sr. Women at the Well, 1965. Oil on canvas. © 2016 Estate of Robert De Niro, Sr. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Olga Hirschhorn Collection.
John Seery. Abstract (Untitled), n.d. Oil on canvas. © John Seery. Olga Hirschhorn Collection.
Roy Lichtenstein. Water Lily Pond with Reflections, 1992. Screenprint enamel on processed and swirled stainless steel. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Collection of Paul and Charlotte Corddry.
February 14 – June 19, 2016
Developed with the intention to show the most engaging and best art, Naples Collects offers visitors a look inside the hearts and minds of regional collectors whose passion for art transcends the geographic limits of Southwest Florida. The paintings, sculptures and works on paper that were made available to The Baker Museum by 23 members of our community relate in some fashion to either the strengths of our institution or to gaps in our own collection. The relation between the growth of the museum and the important gifts that were made by donors during the past 15 years is inextricable: The Baker Museum wouldn’t be The Baker Museum — and the museum wouldn’t have the collections it has — without private collectors.
Naples Collects is a unique opportunity to share with our community some of these collectors’ most prized possessions. After many months of thoughtful dialogue and planning of the exhibition content, the works that were selected ultimately best illustrate their passion for collecting, while ensuring that the museum asserts its curatorial independence and integrity.
Working with, exploring and researching eclectic art collections of the sort that are found in a sophisticated community such as Naples is a compelling and enriching experience that would delight any art historian. Naples Collects brings together 120 examples of high-quality art by some of the best known American artists of the 20th century, along with works by masters of European art and Latin America as well as contemporary artists.
Most importantly, perhaps from the position of institutional growth, working on Naples Collects is a chance for The Baker Museum curatorial team to become acquainted with collectors in specific fields and to cultivate relationships with them. Above all, working with collectors on the final selections and content results in the exchange of expertise. The personal connection between a collector and their artworks — be it a marker of a significant memory, a part of their relationships with people or a reminder of their cultural history — is not only necessary, but serves as the core motivation for their collecting. For several collectors, that personal connection to a work stems from their relationship with the artist, or their knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the artistic process that went into the making of a work.
Naples Collects is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue available for purchase in the Museum Store. An accompanying lecture for Naples Collects takes place on March 29, 2016.
This exhibition has been organized by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum, and is generously underwritten by BMO Private Bank.
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- Josef Albers, Homage to the Square, oil painting on panel
- Timothy Barr, View From South Road with Ponds, oil on Masonite
- Timothy Barr, Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard, oil on Masonite
- William Adolphe Bouguereau, The Bohemian, oil on canvas
- Deborah Butterfield, Untitled, bronze
- Chuck Close, Emily/Fingerprint, direct gravure etching
- Will Cotton, Ribbon Candy, mono print lithograph with hand coloring
- Dorcas Doolittle, The Volatile Stock Market, oil on canvas
- Richard Estes, Union Square, oil on canvas on board
- Barry Flanagan, The Juggler, bronze
- Helen Frankenthaler, Rainbow Arch, acrylic on canvas
- Jean-Léon Gérôme, Le Marabout: in the Harem Bath, oil on canvas
- Alex Katz, Jean Standing, oil on canvas
- Fernand Léger, Les deux femmes à l’enfant, oil on canvas
- Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait de Mrs. Bush, oil on canvas
- Morris Louis, Number 2-71, acrylic resin (magna) on canvas
- René Magritte, Le Sens de la Profondeur (The Sense of Depth), oil on canvas
- Henri Matisse, Complete Jazz series, pochoir prints in folio
- Claude Monet, Etretat, La Plage et La Falaise d’Aval, oil on canvas
- Debora Moore, Red Lady Slipper, hand-blown and off-hand scuplted glass
- Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic #161, acrylic and white chalk on canvasboard
- Pierre Auguste Renoir, Baigneuse, nue assise, oil on canvas
- Georges Robin, La Baie de Iffignac, oil on canvas
- Norman Rockwell, Two Men Reading Detective Stories, oil on canvas
- Gregory Scott, Depth, photography, oil on canvas and HD video
- Elizabeth Washington, Spring in the Valley, oil on canvas
- Alexander Calder, Acrobat on Trapeze, woven tapestry on maguey (sisal)
- Andy Warhol, Moonwalk, unique screenprint in colors on lenox museum board
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, Allées du Prado, Marseilles, gelatin silver print
- Pablo Picasso, Nature Morte sur la Table, color pochoir
- Pablo Picasso, Nature Morte avec Musique, color pochoir
- Pablo Picasso, Deux Figures, color pochoir
- Pablo Picasso, Nature Morte a L’instrument de Musique, color pochoir
- Fernando Botero, Bailarines (Couple Dancing), Bronze with brown patina
- Ai Weiwei, Self Portrait, Lego blocks
- Leon Kelly, Bathers at Loveladies, oil on canvas
- Joan Mitchell, Champs (Black, Gray and Yellow), lithograph
- Joan Mitchell, Arbres (Black and Yellow), lithograph
- Mark Wagner, Hampton Hedge, currency collage
- Mark Wagner, St. George’s Shield, currency collage
- Man Ray, Moving Sculpture, vintage silverprint
- Man Ray, Flying Dutchman, oil on board
- Larry Rivers, De Chirico’s Dilemma, oil on canvas mounted on sculpted foam core
- Jean Dubuffet, Paysage avec un Personnage, ink and paper collage on paper
- Roy Lichtenstein, Water Lily Pond with Reflections, screenprinted enamel on processed and swirled stainless steel
- Friedel Dzubas, Lucasta’s Dream, acrylic on canvas
- Bernar Venet, Two Indeterminate Lines, rolled steel on steel plate
- Robert Rauschenberg, Eco-Echo IX, transfers in ink on aluminum and plexiglass, steel, electric motor, bicycle wheel, bicycle chain and hardware
- Karel Appel, Untitled, oil on canvas
- John Chamberlain, After Dogberry, serigraph, relief print with collage
- Robert Motherwell, Untitled, brush and pen and ink
- Willem de Kooning, Two Women, charcoal on paper
- Henry Moore, Head, bronze with brown patina
- Alexander Calder, Umbrellas, gouache on paper
- Robert Beauchamp, Green Lips, monotype
- William Fields, Shekinah, prismacolor pastel on paper
- Robert Rauschenberg, Half Dime (Urban Bourbon), acrylic and enamel on mirrored and anodized aluminum
- Robert Baser, Untitled, watercolor
- Louis Eilshemius, Girl on rock, sea, hills, oil on canvas
- Louis Eilshemius, Farmhouse, oil on canvas
- Louis Eilshemius, Seated nude at pond holding tree branch, oil on canvas
- Louis Eilshemius, Lovers’ Tryst, oil on canvas
- Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière, Portrait of Woman, oil on canvas
- Frederik Arthur Bridgman, Lawn Tennis Club, Dinard, oil on canvas
- Robert de Niro, Women at the Well, oil on canvas
- Henri Lachièze-Rey, Untitled, oil on canvas
- John Seery, Abstract (Untitled), oil on canvas
- Frank Bowser, Pennsylvania Farm, watercolor
- Frank Bowser, Landscape, watercolor
- Robert Mapplethorpe, Isabella Rossellini, gelatin silver print
- Lynn Davis, Fingal’s Cave II, Scotland, gelatin silver enlargement print (gold toned)
- Prudencio Irazabal, Untitled 3 x 8, acrylic on canvas
- Do-Ho Suh, Rubbing/Loving Project: Bathroom, Apartment A, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA, 2014, colored pencil on vellum pinned on board
- Emilio Perez, Just Two Ears Just Two Eyes, acrylic and latex on wood panel
- Jennifer Steinkamp, Diaspore 2, digital video
- Liam Gillick, Relied Contained, powder coated aluminum, plexiglass
- Ori Gerscht, If Not Now When 01, lambda print mounted on Dibond
- Teresita Fernández, Golden (Scroll 2), gold chrominance and and India ink on wood
- Harry Bertoia, Sounding Sculpture (Sonambient), 41 brass rods with Inconel tops on brass base
- El Anatsui, 1004 Flats II, tropical hardwood and tempura
- Hans Hofmann, Untitled, oil on canvas
- Will Barnet, Guitar Composition, gouache on paper
- Eric Forstmann, Random Shelf Life, oil on board
- Don Gummer, Study for Fountain II, watercolor on paper
- Don Gummer, Cutting Corners I, bronze with patina and concrete base
- Jules Olitski, Glow of Morning, watercolor and gouache on all rag paper
- Paul Signac, St. Tropez aka “Boats at St. Tropez,” black crayon and watercolor on paper
- Stephen Knapp, Back Flight Nine, light, glass and stainless steel
- Richard Anuszkiewicz, Red Fission, oil on canvas
- Childe Hassam, Poppies, Appledore, oil on canvas
- William Merrit Chase, Mrs. Douglas John Connah, oil on canvas
- Thomas Hart Benton, The Three Brothers, oil and tempera on canvas
- Steve Schapiro, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and Entourage, New York, gelatin silver print
- Bert Stern, three works from Marilyn Monroe, from the Last Sitting, gelatin silver print
- Bob Willoughby, Elliot Gould and Barbra Streisand at Beverly Hills Hotel Pool, 1963, gelatin silver print
- Garry Winogrand, John F. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, 1960, gelatin silver print
- Pablo Picasso, Personage, oil on cardboard
- Kees van Dongen, Au Casino, watercolor on paper
- Richard Estes, Monte Carlo, oil on canvas
- Pablo Picasso, Tête de Femme, ink wash and gouache on paper
- Norman Rockwell, Portrait of a Railroad Station, oil on canvas
- Norman Rockwell, Politicians on Parade, oil on canvas
- Jacob van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem, oil on panel
- Salomon de Bray, Study of a Young Woman in Profile, oil on panel
- Isack van Ostade, Ice Scene Near an Inn, oil on panel
- Gabriel Metsu, Old Woman Eating Porridge, oil on panel
- Balthasar van der Ast, Flower Bouquet on a Ledge Together with a Shell and Grasshopper, a Panoramic Landscape Beyond, oil on copper
- Claude Lawrence, Riff Tapestry, oil on canvas