Cantor Foundation Exhibitions Booked through 2017
Busy schedules await the Foundation’s two traveling exhibitions of works by Auguste Rodin, which can be seen together until June 14 at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown Pennsylvania. When this combined show closes this summer at the Michener it will separate into two thematic shows that will travel through 2017.
The Honolulu Museum of Art is the first stop for a 32-piece exhibition that features Rodin bronzes of various subjects by the French master. The show is titled Rodin: The Human Experience, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections. It opens to the public on July 23 and marks the first exhibition of Rodin’s bronzes in Hawaii. From here it goes to the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas, opening in March 2016. The final stop in 2016 will be the Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond in Virginia. It opens here in August 2016.
A second show, of Rodin’s portraits will travel at the same time. Rodin: Portraits of a Lifetime, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections features the sculptor’s portraits of the famous and influential figures of his time, along with three portraits of him by others. It opens February 11, 2016 at the David McCune International Art Gallery at Methodist University in Fayetteville North Carolina. It travels next to Iowa’s Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, where can be visited from June into September 2016. In October 2016 this portraits exhibition opens at Texas A&M University’s J. Wayne Stark Gallery in College Station, where it will be on view for the remainder of the year.
Both groups of sculpture come together again in January 2017 at Oregon’s Portland Art Museum, where it will be on view for four months. From here this combined show travels to the Flint Institute of Arts in Michigan for the period May through July 2017. Rodin: The Human Experience then travels to the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah Georgia (September 2017-January 2018).
Because museums usually plan their exhibition schedules three years in advance, Foundation staff is working now on a new show that will begin its journey in 2018. Stay tuned for more news!
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