February 2000 Issue
Jasper Johns Gives Significant Gifts to the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
In celebration of the Columbia Museum of Art's 50th Anniversary Year, the internationally acclaimed artist Jasper Johns, a native South Carolinian, has donated to the Museum an important group of 35 works-on-paper by notable artists of the 20th century. William Bodine, deputy director and chief curator says, "Many of the artists included in the gift have not, until now, been represented in our permanent collection, and a number of gaps have been wonderfully filled. The list is a virtual "Who's Who" of contemporary printmaking, and the works will have an incredible impact on our collection."
According to Executive Director Sal Cilella, "This extremely generous gift will fit nicely with our strategy to acquire significant prints, sculpture, paintings and decorative arts to mark the Museum's fiftieth anniversary this year. These gifts will be forever designated as Fiftieth Anniversary Acquisitions along with the Henry Moore sculpture, "Upright Motive," a gift of the Sara Lee Corporation." "Upright Motive" will be returning to the Museum in the spring of 2000.
Included in the list of works are a portfolio of 10 silkscreen prints by Josef Albers, {Homage to the Square / Soft Edge - Hard Edge,} 1965; Marcel Duchamp, "Pulled at Four Pins," 1915-64; two works by Philip Guston, "East Side" and "Room," 1980; Larry Rivers, "The Bike Girl II," 1958; John Cage and Calvin Sumsion. "Not Wanting to Say Anything aboul Marcel," 1969; Richard Hamilton, "Self Portrait," 1967; {For Meyer Shapiro,} 1973, a portfolio of 12 works by artists that include Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Raushenberg, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Stanley William Hayter, Alexander Liberman, Saul Steinberg and Andre Masson; {Reality and Paradoxes,} 1973, a portfolio of 7 works that include Arakawa, Oyvind Fahistrom, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Edward Ruscha.
This unprecedented gift was announced at the Museum's Annual Meeting on Jan. 20, 2000. Plans to exhibit the works will be announced in the next several weeks. The new acquisitions will be divided into three installations for the Museum's Focus Galleries; intimate spaces where works-on-paper can be rotated from the permanent collection. The installations will be dedicated to Dr. Bob Ochs, professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina and member of the Museum's Collections Committee. Dr. Ochs, a long-time friend of Jasper Johns, was instrumental in obtaining this gift for the Museum.
For further information call the Museum at 803/799-2810 or check out their web site at (http://www.colmusart.org).
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