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Uncommon Gifts
| Place: | Gallery C |
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| Date From: | 6/9/2012 |
| Date To: | 8/18/2012 |
| Summary: | Uncommon Gifts is the third in a series of exhibits that draw from the MAC’s permanent art collection responding to visitors’ frequent requests to see more of MAC’s permanent art collection. The exhibit highlights a major gift of artworks from the SAFECO Insurance Company, a member of the Liberty Mutual Group. |
| Description: | Uncommon Gifts highlights seven artists with Inland Northwest ties whose work has been collected by MAC since the 1960s and whose representation in MAC's collection has been expanded by the transfer of significant works from the legendary SAFECO Insurance Company's corporate collection. A second theme focuses on artists represented in the collection by one artwork illustrating how the SAFECO gift was curated to expand MAC's ceramic holdings with artists new to the collection. Visitors will be able to observe aesthetic relationships between works by artists previously identified and collected by the Museum with those of the SAFECO gift gaining an understanding that collections are built with multi-layered intent. After its acquisition by Liberty Mutual Group in 2008, many wondered what would become of arguably the most important corporate collection of Northwest art. The gift transferred the ownership of 840 works to the Washington Art Consortium http://www.wwu.edu/depts/wac/ whose members are: Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane; the Museum of Art, Washington State University; Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington; and Whatcom Museum of History and Art and the Western Gallery, Western Washington University both in Bellingham. See Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011050789_safeco12m.html The gift, worth an estimated $3.5 million, according to the Seattle Times, includes nearly 500 works on paper, 130 on canvas and panel, and more than 180 three-dimensional objects such as glass, ceramic, bronze, and mixed media, including pieces by internationally known Northwest artists Jacob Lawrence, Fay Jones, Morris Graves, Barbara Thomas, and George Tsutakawa. Well-known in the local art community for its strength in contemporary Northwest art, the Safeco collection encompasses a diversity of philosophies, ideas, and cultural backgrounds. Each of the consortium members cooperated to divide additional works from the SAFECO collection that specifically enhanced their particular collections of Northwest art. These selections were accessioned into the individual museum collections grants to process the acquisitions into each member museum's collection. Artists highlighted in Uncommon Gifts include: Theodore Waddell http://www.theodorewaddell.com/ Joseph Goldberg http://podcast.northwestmuseum.org/2008/10/31/meditations-on-the-landscape--artist-joseph-goldberg.aspx?ref=rss http://www.artdish.com/feature.aspx?ID=110 Kay O'Rourke (Bio info: see Territory Publishable folder) http://web.mac.com/kayorourke/Kay_Orourke@mac.com/Kay_ORourke_Home_Page.html Patti Warashina http://www.wheelsofclay.com/artists/warashina/index.htm Mary Farrell http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mary-farrell/a/267/856 Rudy Autio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Autio http://www.rudyautio.com/ Kenneth Callahan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Callahan Public collections such as MAC's are built on the generosity of those who either donate what they have collected or provide the funds to acquire important examples. Uncommon Gifts highlights this legacy as it is manifested at the MAC by showing related works acquired through the SAFECO transfer and the longtime "Works from the Heart" auction and acquisition fund (1980s to 2010) supported by the generosity of regional artists and Museum supporters. Additional recent acquisitions will introduce visitors to new artists to the collection. |
| Online Exhibit: | Uncommon Gifts |
| Related Objects: |
2540.1 (Painting, "Three Horses", 1956)
2635.1 (Sculpture, "#12", 1970)
2979.2 (Painting, "Mexican Dogs", 1950's)
3069.1 (Painting, "Angus Drawing #129", 1984)
3308.1 (Painting, "Fishing Lanes", 1988)
3410.2 (Painting, "In the Membership of My Days", 1987)
3474.1 (Drawing, "Spider Sky", 1968)
3474.2 (Drawing, "Untitled", 1968)
3581.1 (Drawing, "Untitled", 1991)
3930.1 (Sculpture, "Quadruped Teapot", 1998)
3950.1 (Sculpture; Vessel, "Yellow Satyr", 1990)
3951.1 (Vase; Sculpture, "Good Children Vase", 1996)
4086.1 (Print, "Skin & Bones 1", 2002)
4113.1 (Vessel, "Vessel", 1961)
4234.10 (Print, "Formaquatro", 1986)
4234.11 (Sculpture, "Hare Basket", 1994)
4234.12 (Sculpture, "Moth", 1980)
4234.14 (Encaustic, "Trout Water #2", 1985)
4234.16 (Sculpture, "Bird & Hat", 1992)
4234.18 (Vessel, "Untitled", 1988)
4234.2 (Vessel, "Hellgate Appaloosa", 1984)
4234.21 (Sculpture, "Waiting Lady #238", 2007)
4234.22 (Sculpture, "Waiting Lady #229", 2007)
4234.23 (Drawing, "Sunflowers", 1995)
4234.24 (Sculpture, "Ceramic Platter", 1982)
4234.29 (Vessel, "Low Bowl Square", 1993)
4234.31 (Sculpture, "Untitled #328", 1979)
4234.32 (Sculpture, "Slab Plate #386 (23)", 1989)
4234.33 (Sculpture, "Plate #984", 1989)
4234.39 (Painting, "Snow Angus", 1992)
4234.41 (Sculpture, "Rome Series Portrait #8", 2004)
4234.5 (Painting, "The Meeting", 1965)
4234.6 (Painting, "Rising Waves", 1979)
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