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Rollins College’s Cornell Fine Arts Museum is one of
America's finest college art museums. The permanent collection is
comprised of works of art and objects from antiquity to the twenty first
century. The galleries are dedicated to educating, enriching and
engaging students and the public through exhibitions of the highest quality.
Originally conceived exhibitions are interspersed with the permanent
collection on a revolving basis.
The
2008 exhibitions celebrate the visual arts at Rollins College
with world-class exhibitions.
- Corps Exquis celebrates a central theme in art, the genre of the human figure,
with selections ranging from the baroque to the post-modern era. Corps Exquis is comprised of many rarely seen works in
the Cornell Museum's collection, and will also premiere several new
acquisitions. PLEASE NOTE: Some content
deals with adult themes and may not be appropriate for younger
visitors. A copy of the images may be viewed at the visitor's
reception desk.
- Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in the 1990s is sponsored by The Japan Foundation in Tokyo. This exhibition features nine artists born between the late 50s and early 60s who represent the cutting-edge in Japanese art from the 1990s.
- Small Paintings from the Collection are illustrative of two of the most prevalent genres in art: the landscape and the genre scene. The 21 paintings on view in this exhibition offers a rich visual introduction into these genres. Albert Bierstadt’s Shoshone Indians – Rocky Mountains, 1859 is a superb example of the American landscape tradition and its continuation of its European counterpart. Also on display are several works which might form a subset of the landscape—the seascape or harbor scene such as Thomas Moran’s Seascape, 1892 and The Building of Noah’s Ark, ca. 1730 by Franz de Paula Ferg. While, A Lady with her Dog, 1691 by Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt and Charles Brias’ The Tempter, 1849 are excellent examples of the genre scene.
- L.C. Armstrong: The Paradise Triptychs creates landscapes of beauty and originality in equal parts. This exclusive CFAM exhibition includes 6 of her latest large-scale triptychs that are evocative of the long tradition of fantasy landscape painting. Working with her characteristic materials of high gloss resin and burnt bomb fuses, L.C. Armstrong invents seductive worlds with a hint of menace. The exhibition is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt's Etchings recognized as the greatest practitioner of the etching technique, Rembrandt created 300 prints that constitute a body of work unparalleled in richness and beauty. Selected from the John Villarino Collection, the exhibition is comprised of 35 rare etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) executed between 1629 and 1654. He imbues his figures with a humanity not in keeping with their lowly status in 17th century Dutch society this raising them up as figures of contemplation and compassion. The exhibition has been organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Inc., Los Angeles.
- Josef Albers Color Genius was one of the most influential artist-educators to immigrate to the United States in the 1930s. In America, Albers introduced art and design concepts to the newly formed experimental community of Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina and later was the Chairman of the Art Department at Yale University. This exhibition, on loan from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, includes 27 compositional variations of Homage to the Square and Variants which demonstrate how color becomes a building block for the artist as he mounts the composition of his work.
For additional information, please call 407-646-2526.
Admission
and Hours
Gallery hours are 10 am to 5
pm Tuesday through Saturday, and 1 to 5 pm Sunday.
Admission is $5 for adults. There is no
charge for CFAM members, or Rollins College
faculty, staff, and any students with current ID.
Museum galleries will be closed September 2nd to September 19th for installation.
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