2019–Present

The Baker Museum

Naples, FL

The permanent collection at the Baker Museum has grown steadily over the past 20 years. With the help of generous donations from many people and purchases by the museum, the art collection has continued to grow in both size and quality. It now includes American, Latin American, and European art from the 1880s to the present day. This show is proud to show more than 50 pieces that were added to the permanent collection since 2019.

Charlemagne (1980), a sculpture of a horse made of driftwood and other found materials that was bought in 2019, and Red Reeds, an outdoor installation by Dale Chihuly, are two of the museum’s best new pieces (2020). Two huge paintings by Donald Sultan and Hunt Slonem, both of which were bought in 2021, are just as scary. The museum’s collection of postwar and modern American art is made stronger by Sultan’s Steer, October 7, 1982 (1982) and Slonem’s Hutch Hutch (2019). In this show, these works stand out, along with photographs by Mariana Yampolsky and two sets of prints by Louise Nevelson and Ernest Trova: 11 silkscreens from Nevelson’s 1966 series Facade: In Homage to Edith Sitwell and six lithographs from Trova’s 1967 series Falling Man.

The museum has a large collection of modern art, including drawings by the famous French surrealists André Masson and Max Bucaille, oil paintings by the Mexican surrealist Enrique Chavarria, and, among other things, the cubist painting The Three Musicians by the Ukrainian-born Jewish-American artist William Meyerowitz. Last but not least, the show will include paintings by Mally Khorasantchi and Antonio Guerrero, two artists from Florida who have made multi-panel, mixed-media paintings that show how important surrealism and abstraction are in modern art.

Recent Acquisitions: 2019–Present is an exhibition of a wide range of artworks that show how generous collectors and donors have been and how much they trust Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum as a place to collect and care for important cultural artworks since it first opened in 2000.

https://artisnaples.org/baker-museum/exhibitions/2021-22/recent-acquisitions