Dear Colleagues,
Please see the announcement below as well as the attached brochure with the schedule of events for the exhibition, Art Collecting on a Global Scale: Non-Western Objects from the William Randolph Hearst Archive. The exhibition includes non-western art objects from Hearst's former holdings on loan from important collections and related documents from Long Island University's extensive William Randolph Hearst Archive.
Although the opening took place earlier this week, the exhibition will be open until November 10, and a number of related lectures will be offered. All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact:
Catherine Larkin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Digital Initiatives and the Art Image Library, Department Head B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library LIU Post
720 Northern Blvd.
Brookville, NY 11548-1300
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Posted on behalf of Long Island University, Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, by Deborah Kempe. Please excuse any cross-postings.
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HILLWOOD ART MUSEUM EXHIBITION
Long Island University, LIU Post
720 Northern Blvd, Brookville, NY 11548
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ART COLLECTING ON A GLOBAL SCALE:
NON-WESTERN OBJECTS FROM THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST ARCHIVE
DATES: September 10 - November 10, 2012
GUEST CURATOR: Dr. Catherine Larkin
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OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 13, 2012
MUSEUM HOURS: Monday - Friday 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Thursdays open until 8 pm, Saturdays 11:00 am-3:00 pm
LECTURE SERIES
All events held in the Hillwood Art Museum
ART COLLECTING ON A GLOBAL SCALE, CURATOR'S TALK
Tuesday, September 18, 6:00 pm
Dr. Catherine Larkin, Guest Curator, B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, Long Island University
EGYPTOMANIA
Tuesday, October 9, 6:00 pm
Dr. Bob Brier, Senior Research Fellow, Long Island University
THE INCLUSIVE MR. HEARST
Thursday, October 11, 12:30 pm
Dr. Virginia Raguin, Professor of Art History, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
THE HISTORY OF THE HISTORY OF COLLECTING
Thursday, October 18, 12:30 pm
Dr. Stephen Bury, The Frick Art Reference Library, The Frick Collection, New York
ART OF THE ANCIENT MAYA: MYTHOLOGY, SCIENCE, RITUAL, ICONOGRAPHY, MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY
Thursday, November 1, 7:00 pm
Thomas Germano, Farmingdale State College
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
This exhibition combines primary documentation from the William Randolph Hearst Archive at Long Island University, original non-western objects from Hearst's former holdings on loan from significant museum collections, and related objects from Hillwood Art Museum's permanent collection.
Hearst's passion for collecting was first documented by his mother, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, on their trip abroad when Will was ten years of age. Phoebe wrote home to her husband George regarding their son, "he wants all sorts of things; the boy has developed a mania for antiquities." In his twenties, Will travelled to Mexico, Peru and Egypt, no doubt developing a broader understanding of global artifacts. For the remainder of his life, Hearst's craving for art was insatiable. Hearst purchased objects at a feverish pace from dealers, auction houses and galleries and was known to spend hours a day perusing sales catalogs and selecting items. Art provenance research, or creating a sequence of ownership, has been an important component of this project. The investigation would have been nearly impossible without access to Hearst's collection of sales catalogs contained in this archive.
Art Collecting on a Global Scale provides an occasion for students, scholars and members of the community to experience and explore a lesser known aspect of Hearst's art collecting. While it documents a considerable range of his non-western art objects it also provides entry into this unchartered chapter of Hearst's unique approach to art collecting and the opportunity for additional scholarship.
LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Princeton University Art Museum
The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Hillwood Art Museum
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Christine Burke, Philbrook Museum of Art
Margaret Hardin, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County
Bryan Just, Princeton University Museum of Art
Stephen Lockwood, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Margaret Tamulonis, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
Sebastián van Doesburg, Francisco de Burgoa Library at the Universidad Autónoma de Oaxaca
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