Alumni Collect:
20th Century Masterpieces

From the Collections of Baruch College Alumni

The path of modem art and its collectors in America has rarely been smooth. As the accompanying essay by curator Sandra Kraskin makes abundantly clear, collecting modem, nonrepresentational art has always required a certain amount of courage. Art critics during the first half of the 20th century were often disdainful of Cubism, Fauvism Abstract Expressionism and other modernist currents. Even today the more outré art of the 1990s can still spark the wrath of staid critics.

Alumni Collect: Twentieth-Century Masterpieces from the Collections of Baruch College Alumni hopscotches its way through 20th century art from Picasso to de Kooning and Elizabeth Murray. The exhibition, which will be at the Baruch College Mishkin Gallery, 135 East 22 Street from November 7 through December 12, includes paintings, sculptures, pastels, etchings, serigraphs and mixed media collages. Many of the 20th century's best-known artists are represented in the show, which draws on both personal and corporate collections and features 32 works not ordinarily available to the general public.

Many Baruch College alumni have attained positions of top corporate leadership and their collections include the work of many modem masters. Among the artists whose work appears in this exhibition are Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Willem de Kooning and a dozen more. The show moves chronologically through post-modem creations of the 1980s and '90s, and includes mixed media and conceptual works such as a piece by the Latin American artist Guillermo Kuitca which incorporates a leather mattress on which the artist has painted a map of Buenos Aires.

The exhibition runs from:
November 7 to December 12
Baruch College's Sidney Mishkin Gallery
135 East 22 Street

Gallery hours are:
Monday-Friday, 12 noon to 5 p.m.
Thursday, 12 noon to 7 p.m.

Opening reception:
Thursday, November 6, from 5-7 pm.
Free and Open to the Public.
An exhibition catalog will be available.

© 1997 Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College