Rembrandt Harmiensz van Rijn (1606-1669), Dutch
Woman Bathing Her Feet at a Brook, 1658
etching, 6½ x 3¼ inches
CFAM Collection at Rollins College

Ida Applebroog (b. 1929), American
Modern Olympia (After Versace), 1997-2001
oil and charcoal on Gampi papers, two panels, 53 x 35 inches
Collection Ida Applebroog, courtesy of Barry Rosen, New York

CORPS EXQUIS
The Human Form: ca. 1605-2005

through August 31

Organized by CFAM director Luanne McKinnon, this ambitious exhibition (pronounced kor ekskee) celebrates the genre of the human figure with examples ranging from the Baroque to the Post-modern era.  Drawings, etchings, lithographs, mixed and new media works of art describe the "exquisite body" - a central theme in art for centuries - as interpreted by Pablo Picasso, KiKi Smith, Paul Cézanne, Ida Applebroog, Vanessa Beecroft, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Duncan Grant, among many others.  The exhibition is comprised of many works from the museum's permanent collection including recent acquisitions and important loans from private collectors, galleries, and artists.

On view for the first time at the Cornell is Paul Cézanne's The Large Bathers, a recent acquisition.  Cézanne treated the subject of the bather in more than two hundred works over the course of twenty years, and approached this most conventional of figurative themes in a radically unconventional manner.  At the insistence of the Parisian art dealer, Ambroise Vollard, the artist created The Large Bathers, his most elaborate print, after his 1876-77 painting of the same composition (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; variation in Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva).

PLEASE NOTE: Some content deals with adult themes and may not be appropriate for younger visitors.  You may view a copy of the images at the reception desk.

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), French
Les Grands Baigneurs (The Large Bathers), 1896-97
lithograph, first state (of three), from edition of 100, 15⅞ x 19⅝ inches
CFAM Collection at Rollins College

 PAINTING FOR JOY

New Japanese Painting in the 1990s

April 18 - July 6

The Consul General of Japan has chosen the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College to be the only venue in Florida to premiere this exhibition of thirty paintings by nine contemporary Japanese artists.  Sponsored by The Japan Foundation in Tokyo, this exhibition features artists born between the late 50s and early 60s who represent the cutting-edge in Japanese art from the 1990s.  These artists grew up during a period when Japan was achieving economic growth and during this period, the art of painting was "rediscovered."  Their exploitation of American figurative painting, mixed with characteristics from comics and picture book illustrations, has created a new style in international painting.

Miran Fukuda (born 1963), Japanese
Landscape, 1997
acrylic on panel, 57.3 x 63.8 inches
Lent by Consulate General of Japan in Miami and The Japan Foundation

Takanobu Kobayashi (born 1960), Japanese
Dog, 1998
oil on panel, 65 x 53.1 inches
Lent by Consulate General of Japan in Miami and The Japan Foundation

Yoshimoto Nara (born 1959), Japanese
Little Red Riding Hood, 1997
acrylic on cotton, 47.2 x 43.3 inches
Lent by Consulate General of Japan in Miami and The Japan Foundation

Nikki Fiedler

Elizabeth Hollabaugh

SMALL PAINTINGS

May 20 - August 31

Approximately two dozen 19th and 20th century small-scale European and American paintings chosen from the permanent collection will be on view in the Yust Gallery. This exhibition includes Franz de Paula Ferg, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and Albert Pinkham Ryder among others.