Reynolda House Museum of American Art will open a new exhibition, New World Views: Gifts from Jean Crutchfield and Robert Hobbs in the Museum's Babcock Gallery. The exhibition, which includes 10 works dating from 1971 to 1996, highlights the expanding global view of American art during the last 30 years.
The works in New World Views range from paintings and prints to sculpture by artists as diverse as Puerto Rican painter Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Pop artists Richard Artschwager and Nicholas Krushenick, self-taught painter Thornton Dial, and expatriate modernist Beverly Pepper. This exhibition of recent acquisitions to the Reynolda House collection will be on view from through August 31, 2008.
All pieces in the exhibition are gifts to Reynolda House from collectors Jean Crutchfield and Robert Hobbs, longtime friends and supporters of Reynolda House.
Crutchfield is a collector and a former gallerist. As an independent curator, she has curated Presumed Innocence for the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, and, with Hobbs, The Art of Aggression for the Moore Space in Miami.
Hobbs holds the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair at Virginia Commonwealth University and has curated Kara Walker: Slavery! Slavery! for the Sao Paolo Bienal and Thornton Dial: Remembering the Road for the Atlanta Cultural Olympiad. -- www.reynoldahouse.org
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