VOGEL 50x50
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection:
Fifty Works for Fifty States

January 30 – April 25, 2010

The Vogel Collection was started in the early 1960s and has grown to over 4,000 works of art. The Collection contains primarily drawings, with some significant works of painting and sculpture, and is best-known for its holdings of minimal, post-minimal and conceptual art by primarily American artists whose careers developed after 1960. In 1992 the National Gallery entered into an agreement with the Trustees of the Vogel collection to acquire all or part of the thousands of works in the Collection for the benefit of the people of the United States. In 2008, under the umbrella of the National Gallery, the Vogels committed 2,500 works of art to be offered to institutions in fifty states. The Boise Art Museum is proud to be a recipient of this generous gift, which includes works by numerous well-known artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Will Barnet, and Pat Steir.

Special thanks to the many individuals whose collective contributions made framing these fifty works of art possible.

Ronnie Landfield (American, born 1947), Untitled, 1998, acrylic on paper, 29-15/16" x 22-1/16", Collection of Boise Art Museum, THE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION: FIFTY WORKS FOR FIFTY STATES, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Photo Credit: Lyle Peterzell

LASTING LEGACY:
Selections from the Permanent Collection

November 21 , 2009 – TBD

Lasting Legacy showcases Collectors Forum acquisitions along with objects and recent gifts from the Permanent Collection. Collectors Forum’s Northwest artist acquisitions have been instrumental in developing and shaping the permanent collection. Artworks have been selected for their elegance of form and organic sensibility. Among the artists included are John Grade, Kerry Moosman and Laura McPhee.

John Grade, Caudex (Vertical), 2004,
bamboo wood, resin, Boise Art Museum Permanent Collection,Collectors Forum purchase

IDEA AS ART:
Contemporary Works on Paper

November 7, 2009 – April 18, 2010

Renowned New York collector Werner Kramarsky has assembled one of the largest and finest collections of contemporary works on paper, totaling more than 2,000 abstract drawings. From his celebrated collection,
Mr. Kramarsky has selected 23 works by such important artists as Sol Lewitt and Mel Bochner to donate to the Boise Art Museum. As a generous supporter of art and artists,
Mr. Kramarsky states, “You have a responsibility to challenge, to move the world along, to add insight to what beauty can be.” Collector, curator and educator, Werner Kramarsky served for eight years as chairman of the board of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, is a life trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and has been a trustee of the Hammer Museum at UCLA. This special exhibition showcases Mr. Kramarsky’s recent gift.

Organized by the Boise Art Museum

Patchwork: Historical Quilts
From the Collection of the Idaho Historical Museum

August 29, 2009 – March 14, 2010

Patchwork: Historical Quilts celebrates a selection of magnificent American quilts collected over the past fifty years by the Idaho Historical Museum. The quilts range in age from the early 1800s to the mid-twentieth century and include a variety of distinctive patterns. Fine examples of Log Cabin, Irish Chain, Album, and Crazy Quilts are among the quilt patterns highlighted. While most quilts in the exhibition were used for domestic purposes, there are also Presentation and Political quilts as well as charming doll quilt designs.

Sponsored by Boise Basin Quilters Guild, The Cotton Club, Idaho PieceMakerS, and Kay Hardy and Gregory Kaslo