{"id":4152,"date":"2015-10-29T15:19:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T20:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2015-11-11T19:54:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T01:54:02","slug":"milwaukee-art-museum-announces-inaugural-special-exhibition-in-new-bradley-family-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2015\/10\/milwaukee-art-museum-announces-inaugural-special-exhibition-in-new-bradley-family-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Art Museum Announces Inaugural Special Exhibition in New Bradley Family Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Francis: Master Printmaker celebrates major gift of Abstract Expressionist prints<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Milwaukee, Wi\"r_m2009_173\"s.\u2014<\/strong>The Milwaukee Art Museum \u00a0will present Sam Francis: Master Printmaker, \u00a0<\/em>sponsored by Sendik\u2019s Food Market, as the \u00a0inaugural exhibition in the Bradley Family Gallery, a \u00a0new 4,000-square-foot changing exhibition space in \u00a0the Museum\u2019s renovated and expanded Collection \u00a0Galleries. It will be on view November 24, 2015\u2013 \u00a0March 20, 2016.<\/p>\n

Debuting as part of the Museum\u2019s reopening celebration, Sam Francis: Master Printmaker<\/em> honors the 2009 gift of more than five hundred prints from the Sam Francis Foundation that made the Milwaukee Art Museum the largest repository of the artist\u2019s works on paper. It is the first time the works will be on view in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

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American artist Sam Francis (1923\u20131994) is best known for his Abstract Expressionist large-scale paintings, innovative prints, and use of vibrant color. The exhibition\u2019s fifty lithographs, etchings, aquatints, and screenprints provide a cross section of the most significant print series of Francis\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Museum is honored to be a repository for the work of Sam Francis, a major force in twentieth-century painting and printmaking,\u201d said Margaret Andera, adjunct curator of contemporary art. \u201cThis exhibition is a rare chance to discover an artist\u2019s entire career, and the Museum\u2019s rich collection of works on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Francis was one of the first post-World War II American painters to develop a reputation in the international art world. His work reflects his wide-ranging travels\u2013from San Francisco to Japan to France\u2013and artistic influences, including Impressionism and color field painting.<\/p>\n

The vibrant colors associated with his paintings are equally in evidence in his prints, with stunning depths of inks he formulated himself. Printmaking was essential to Francis\u2019s process throughout his career, as an opportunity to explore ideas relating to clarity and the possibilities of color. Francis was also instrumental in encouraging fellow artists to explore printmaking, and he invited artists to produce prints and artists\u2019 books at his two presses, the Litho Shop, founded in 1970, and Lapis Press, which began in 1984.<\/p>\n

Upon their acquisition, the prints joined the Museum\u2019s Herzfeld Photography, Print, and Drawing Study Center, a repository of more than 15,000 rare prints, drawings, photographs, and book arts. In addition to housing the Museum\u2019s collection of works on paper, the Herzfeld Study Center contains a library of monographs on artists, catalogue raisonn\u00e9s, and reference materials, along with object files and artist files.<\/p>\n

Restored. Reinstalled. Reimagined. <\/strong>
\nThe Milwaukee Art Museum, the largest visual art institution in Wisconsin and one of the oldest museums in the nation, is reopening its transformed Collection Galleries November 24. This fourteen-month, $34 million project is the first-ever major reimagining of the Museum\u2019s two older building\u2014the Eero Saarinen\u2013designed War Memorial Center (1957) and the David Kahler\u2013designed addition (1975)\u2014and is designed to expand the space, dramatically reimagine the visitor experience, and set a new standard for twenty-first-century museums. When it reopens in November, the Museum will feature a welcoming new entrance that unites the Museum and Lake Michigan; a wine, coffee, and snack bar; an intuitive layout; more of its world-class Collection on view than ever before; new areas devoted to photography and design; and double the special exhibition space.<\/p>\n

About the Milwaukee Art Museum<\/strong>
\nProminently situated on the shore of Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee Art Museum campus welcomes over 400,000 visitors annually. The Museum was founded over 125 years ago and is the largest and most significant art museum in Wisconsin. It houses a rich collection of over 30,000 works, with strengths in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European art, contemporary art, and American decorative arts. It is the world\u2019s leading repository for work by untrained creators and has one of the largest collections of works by Georgia O\u2019Keeffe. The Museum\u2019s celebrated Santiago Calatrava\u2013designed Quadracci Pavilion, completed in 2001, showcases both Museum-produced and traveling feature exhibitions.<\/p>\n

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Image: Sam Francis,\u00a0First Stone<\/em>, 1960. Milwaukee Art Museum, gift of the Sam Francis Foundation, California M2009.173.\u00a0\u00a9 Sam Francis Foundation, California \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by John R. Glembin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam Francis: Master Printmaker celebrates major gift of Abstract Expressionist prints \u00a0Milwaukee, Wis.\u2014The Milwaukee Art Museum \u00a0will present Sam Francis: Master Printmaker, \u00a0sponsored by Sendik\u2019s Food Market, as the \u00a0inaugural exhibition in the Bradley Family Gallery, a \u00a0new 4,000-square-foot changing exhibition space in \u00a0the Museum\u2019s renovated and expanded Collection \u00a0Galleries. It will be on view … Milwaukee Art Museum Announces Inaugural Special Exhibition in New Bradley Family Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}