Exhibitions

Recent Acquisitions

Spitaleri Permanent Collection Gallery

The Museum has opened a new exhibit of recent acquisitions to the collection in the Spitaleri Permanent Collection Gallery. It includes gifts from Susan Hamilton, Robin Clarke and Willard A. Lockwood, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, as well as two artists, Michael Patrick Harrigan and Susan Schwalb.

Ms. Hamilton’s gift of a pencil drawing by Philip Grausman is an excellent example of his minimalist drawings of the human figure. Continuing the minimalist theme, the Echo Circle Series by Michael Harrigan, each dedicated to someone with an Eastern inclination in their background, shows that less can be more. Susan Schwalb’s drawing is gold and silverpoint on red paper and is the work of one of the foremost figures in the revival of the ancient technique of silverpoint drawing in the United States.

When the Vogel’s picked the Academy Art Museum to represent the State of Maryland in their gift of Fifty Works for Fifty States, the Museum automatically increased its holdings of minimalist art. Among the works donated by the Vogels is an untitled work by Moshe Kupferman, a holocaust survivor whose work was much influenced by that experience. Mr. Lockwood’s gift of three related works by Russell Limbach, a leading American lithographer of the mid-20th century, shows the same still life in three different media.

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