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A list of some of the exhibitions since 2001 that
have featured corporate art collections. A complete list from 1939 is included with the International Directory of Corporate
Art Collections, or may be purchased separately on CD-ROM for $19.95.
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Exhibitions of Corporate Art
2001
American Paintings at Procter & Gamble: The Historic Cincinnati
Collection, curated by John Wilson, consulting curator of painting and sculpture for the Taft Museum of Art, Taft Museum of
Art, March 16 - June 17, 2001. 35 paintings included. "Northwest Views: Selections from the SAFECO Collection," on display
at the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, 2001. A view of Northwest art from 1935 to the present. 42 paintings, works
on paper, and sculptures.
Alcan sponsored the exhibition Aluminum by Design at the Montreal Museum
of Fine Arts from August 23 to November 4, 2001. The exhibition showed how aluminum and its unique properties have inspired
designers in fields as diverse as sculpture, furniture and home decor, jewellery, architecture, fashion, and the aerospace
and robotic industries. Alcan, sponsored the exhibition in two ways -- through the contribution of physical objects and through
the educational component. The Company was represented physically within the exhibition by three works from the Maison Alcan
collection and in the entrance hall of the Michael and Renata Hornstein Pavilion by a four-metre-high aluminum tree symbolizing
recycling and environmental protection.
"Along the Nile: Early Photographs of Egypt," September 11, 2001- December
30, 2001, The Howard Gilman Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Forty-five 19th century photographs. Organized
by Pierre Apraxine, curator of the Gilman Paper Company Collection and consultative curator in the Department of Photographs
at the Metropolitan, and by Jeff L. Rosenheim, assistant curator in the Metropolitan's Department of Photographs.
"Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections."
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 7, 2001 - January 6, 2002; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16 June
3, 2002; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 15 -October 20, 2002. The exhibition presented a range of key works by leading
artists from the 1960s to the present and included works from the private and foundation collections of Eli and Edythe Broad.
100 works by 21 artists who exemplify important trends from the second half of the 20th century, including American Neo-Dada
and Pop, German NeoExpressionism, painting and conceptually based work from the 1980s. (Kaufman and Broad)
"The Art and Culture of Siena," an exhibition from the collections
of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena and Fondazione Accademia Musicale Chigiana, October 6, 2001 -December 9, 2001, on display
in the Tokyo Station Gallery of the East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, Japan. This exhibition featured about 100 paintings,
sculptures, and ceramics other items from the early Renaissance until the 18th century, none of them shown before in Japan.
"Beuys to Hirst: Arts Works at Deutsche Bank." An exhibition at the
National Gallery of Scotland, November 7, 2001- January 13, 2002.
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2002
UNO Art Gallery, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Weber Fine Arts Building
at 60th & Dodge Streets, Omaha. January- February 8, 2002. In collaboration with the University of Nebraska at Omaha's
Friends of Art organization, Kutak Rock agreed to display its collection of works by American painter and graphic artist Ben
Shahn. The exhibition in the UNO Art Gallery consisted of 29 lithographs and serigraphs. Twenty-four of the pieces were from
the firm's Omaha collection and five on loan from private collections of current or former Kutak Rock attorneys.
"New Additions to the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection,"
January 25, 2002 - February 17, 2002, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. First Floor Gallery.
"From Twilight to Dawn: Late Twentieth and Twentyfirst Century Art
from the UBS PaineWebber Collection." Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN. February 8- May 26, 2002. The exhibition
concentrated on late 20th and 21st century works. "Faberge: Selections from the Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, April
12- July 7, 2002, at the Frist Center, Nashville, TN. 40 works from the collection were loaned.
"As It Happened: Photographs from the Gilman Paper Company Collection,
" May 7, 2002–August 25, 2002, The Howard Gilman Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fifty works, ranging
from a parade on the Pont Royal in Paris in 1844 to an atomic bomb test in the Pacific in 1946.
"Keeping the Arts in Business, " Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, July
August 4, 2002.
Masterpieces of the Bridgestone Museum of Art, August 13 - November
7, 2002. Ishibashi Museum of Art, Japan.
From November 21, 2002- December 15, 2002. In 2002 Olivetti showed
the key works from its collection in an exhibition entitled "55 TwentiethCentury Artists from the Olivetti Collection". The
exhibition presented 79 works of art, mainly paintings as well as a small group of sculptures, by 55 Italian artists of the
20th century. The venue was the historic Officina H, designed in 1957 by Eduardo Vittoria as a project covering the courtyard
of the "New I.C.O." building and renovated in 2001 to house art, culture and entertainment events.
" Transmutations: Alchemy in Art" is a display of 30 European artworks,
paintings, and engravings depicting laboratory scenes of alchemists. On display at the Chemical Heritage Foundation galleries.
Opened in 2002.
"The Changing of the AvantGarde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from
the Howard Gilman Collection," on display from October 24, 2002–January 6, 2003, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The future Howard Gilman Archive, will incorporate the visionary architectural drawings already part of MoMA’s collection
and future like-minded acquisitions.
2003
"Selections from Maine Corporate Collections," March 14- April 22,
2003. At the Art Gallery at the University of New England’s Westbrook College. Curated by Grant Jacks.
"Keeping the Arts in Business," Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, June
27 - July 12, 2003. Works loaned from 14 corporations in the Pittsburgh area. Curated by Brian Lang, the Corporate Art Administrator
for Mellon Financial Corporation.
"Bull's Eye: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, "June 21 August
31, 2003, Arken Museum, Ishoj, Denmark.
Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art from the Neuberger Berman Collection,
at the Henry Art Gallery. 55 works of art, created primarily since 1990 that celebrate the energy, sense of exploration, and
perpetual diversity of contemporary art. The exhibition premiered at the Henry Art Gallery and then travels to Chicago, West
Palm Beach and Tampa, Florida (Tampa Art Museum, January 25 – April 11, 2004 ). It is being circulated by Pamela Auchincloss,
Arts Management, New York. The exhibition was organized for the Henry Art Gallery by Assistant Curator Pamela Meredith and
Chief Curator Elizabeth Brown. Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, July 12 September 21, 2003.
"Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th-19th Centuries." An
exhibition organized by Japan Society and The British Museum in association with the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo. Japan
Society Gallery from October 10 Dec. 31, and at The British Museum in London from Feb. 4 April 13, 2003. Works were loaned
from the Suntory collection.
"Five Years of the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection 1998-2002,"
in conjunction with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York at 391 Broadway from October 23 - November 30, 2003.
"Embracing the Present: The UBS PaineWebber Collection," a selection
of some of the best of the company's art holdings. Displayed at the Austin Museum of Art during June 2003. Organized by the
Portland Museum of Art, the exhibition is touring institutions around the country through 2004. Venues: Portland Art Museum,
Portland, OR; the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale; Phoenix Art Museum, and the Austin Museum of Art. Thirteen of the works
in the exhibition are from the group of 37 that UBS recently gave to New York's Museum of Modern Art.
"Bonnie Prince Charlie, and the Royal House of Stuart, 1688-1788:
Works of Art from The Drambuie Collection." 100 works from the collection are on tour to six museums in North America during
2003-2005, including the Society for Four Arts in Palm Beach, FL; the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, GA; Albany Institute
of Art and History, Albany, NY; Winterthur, Wilmington, DE.
2004
"Sixth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection," 2004, showcases
the work of more than 20 emerging artists collected by Altoids, on display at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, from July 10 - August 15, 2004. Some of the other sites included Consolidated Works in Seattle, the Arthouse
in Austin, the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco.
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