Exhibitions at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art

North Gallery/South Gallery These two areas, separated by a rotating 28-foot wall, feature the museum’s changing exhibitions which include traveling exhibitions, private collector’s exhibitions and interpretations of art of the 20th Century.
Margaret Jordan Patterson (American, 1867-1950) Summer Clouds, ca. 1918 Color woodblock print, 7 ½ x 10 7/8 Collection of the Two Red Roses Foundation Henry McBride (American, 1867-1962) Boats, ca. 1891 Watercolor, 18 x 15 ½ in. (framed) Collection of the Henry McBride Foundation		Current Exhibitions (North Gallery) Members Opening Reception, Saturday, November 1, 2008 November 2, 2008 – January 4, 2009 Color Woodblock Prints Selections from the Two Red Roses Foundation During the glory days of color woodblock prints in the early decades of the twentieth century, American artists such as Arthur Wesley Dow, Margaret Jordan Patterson and Edna Boies Hopkins transformed a traditional technique with fresh, personal vision. Their experimental approach to design and hand-printing allowed them to freely explore color theory, composition and technical expertise in an intimate format that speaks directly to the viewer. This is the second exhibition the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art has organized from the collection of the Two Red Roses Foundation following the success of the premiere exhibition The American Arts & Crafts Home 1900-1915 (Jan. 22–Apr. 16, 2006). Susan J. Montgomery, noted arts and crafts scholar from Andover, Massachusetts, will again serve as guest curator for the exhibition and as essayist for the accompanying catalog. The exhibition, which spans the period from the 1890s to the 1930s, includes 90 woodblock prints, books and portfolios by artists whose works mastered this challenging medium with individual style. The Two Red Roses Foundation is a non-profit education institution based in Tarpon Springs that “collects and conserves objects made in America between approximately 1900 and 1920 in response to a spirit of reform in design, quality craftsmanship and straightforward materials.” (South Gallery) Works on Paper by Henry McBride From the Henry McBride Foundation The Henry McBride Foundation, formed in 2001, honors noted American art critic Henry McBride (1867-1962) who emerged following the 1913 Armory Show in New York as the premier critic of the modernist movement. “What so many others at the time found shocking and even repulsive in modernist art, McBride had the wit – and the aesthetic intelligence – to see as the classics of the future, and he had the good fortune to live long enough to see his judgment vindicated,” states Hilton Kramer in the introduction to the book Henry McBride The Flow of Art, Essays and Criticism. Through his years as art critic for the New York Sun and later for magazines such as the literary tome Dial and Art News, McBride became a close personal acquaintance with many important cultural figures on both sides of the Atlantic, including Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Salvador Dalí. This exhibition, on loan from the Henry McBride Foundation, includes 31 works on paper created by McBride in the late 19th century, photos and ephemera documenting his career, and a modernist piece by dada artist Marcel Duchamp. McBride, who studied at the Artist-Artisan Institute and Art Students League in New York City, did not pursue a career as an artist, but his early works demonstrate academic training with a sense of expressive freedom.
		Upcoming Exhibitions 2009 Jan. 18 – April 12 It’s a Dog’s Life: Photographs by William Wegman From the Polaroid Collection Sanctuary: Photographs by Anna Tomczak Circulated by Museum of Florida Art, Deland May 3 – July 19 Florida Artist Group: 59th Annual Exhibition Past Exhibition Highlights 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008