Art Acquisitions
Carpenters, 1977, lithograph, Jacob Lawrence, born Atlantic City, N.J. 1917, died Seattle, Wash. 2000
Gift of Merritt P. Dyke 2010.144.1
A leading American figurative artist of the 20th century, Jacob Lawrence was one of the first to document the life of African-Americans. As a boy, he was fascinated by the work of carpenters in his childhood neighborhood in Harlem. He later said, “It was beautiful to see them use tools as extensions of their hands. I've loved tools ever since. I collect them and I use them as subjects for my paintings." Tools and the hands that use them are shown to great effect in the Museum’s new acquisition. The term "carpenter cubism" has been used to describe Lawrence's use of bold colors, flat forms, angular planes and tilted viewpoints.
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During her early 20s, Dorothy Dehner studied modern dance, theater, piano and wrote poetry. After a year of traveling in Europe, she moved to New York to study art. Drawing was Dehner’s chief focus from the 1930s through the 1950s; later in her career, she made and exhibited abstract sculptures.
In the 1980s, she created large works in Corten steel, a steel alloy that forms a rust-like appearance when it is exposed to the weather. The Museum’s new acquisition in this medium is a prime example of her signature totem-like forms.
Scaffold
1986
Corten steel
Dorothy Dehner
born Cleveland, Ohio 1901
died New York, N.Y. 1994
Museum purchase made possible by the Edward Swift Shorter Bequest Fund, the Ella E. Kirven Charitable Lead Trust for Acquisitions and a partial Gift of the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts 2010.125
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Medium Size Mirage Study (MSMS) 36-B, 1993, 1993, mixed media on canvas, Larry Bell, born Chicago, Ill. 1939
Gift of Marleen and Marc Olivié 2010.143
Larry Bell is one of the most prominent artists to come out of the Los Angeles art scene of the 1960s. He has primarily been known as a Minimalist sculptor, but more recently Bell has produced a series of what he calls mirage pieces.
“I colored sheets of various paper materials, strips of PET [polyester] film, and laminate film,” the artist says. “Then I fused them to canvases and stretched them. Tapestries of woven light differentials resulted.”
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History Acquistions
The Civil War remains one of the most profound defining events in regional history. The Museum continues to build its collection of Civil War-era materials, which help it interpret the impact of the conflict in virtually every aspect of local society. Some of the items shown here will be on display in the ongoing exhibition 150 Years Later: Our Civil War and Its Legacy.
Museum purchase made possible by the Evelyn S. and H. Wayne Patterson Fund 2008.12.2
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Theis image of the Civil War prison at Andersonville were taken by prominent local photographer Andrew J. Riddle on Tuesday, August 16, 1864.
His photographs from that day are reputed to be the only surviving images of an operating Confederate prison. The images have become integrally associated with the history of the prison. They are believed to have been used as evidence in the trial of Captain Henry Wirz, the commanding officer at the prison, and appeared in one of the earliest histories of the facility.
The original negatives were lost at some point prior to the 1880s, and other photographers used original prints such as these to continue to publish the images
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John Rhodes Browne served as superintendent of the Eagle Mill during the Civil War. One of the largest textile manufacturing facilities in the Confederacy, the Eagle Mill was said to have produced enough cloth to clothe a regiment of soldiers every 24 hours. A Massachusetts native, Browne trained in the mill business in New York and North Carolina prior to coming to Columbus in 1851. Browne continued to play a major role in the Columbus business community after the war, serving as president of the Georgia Home Insurance Company, director of Muscogee Mills, director of Swift Mill, and founding the National Bank of Columbus.
Gift of Sandra Hudson 2010.129
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This sword belonged to prominent antebellum Columbus businessman and military leader Peyton Colquitt. Colquitt attended, but did not graduate from, West Point Military Academy.
By the time of the Civil War, he was serving as captain of the City Light Guards, the popular local volunteer militia unit. Colquitt died of wounds suffered during the Battle of Chickamauga and is and is buried in Linwood Cemetery in Columbus.
Gift of the Hinde Family 2009.34 |
See below for more additions to the Columbus Museum's Permanent Collection
Fall 2010 acquisitions
Summer 2010 acquisitions
Spring 2010 acquisitions
Winter 2009-2010 acquisitions |
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