Museum Exhibition

Princeton Collects

Abstract oil painting with vigorous brushwork in various shades of orange, red, yellow, green, and white.

Gerhard Richter (born 1932, Dresden, Germany; active Cologne, Germany), Abstract Painting (613-3), 1986. Oil on canvas; 260.7 × 203 × 4.1 cm. Promised gift of Preston H. Haskell, Class of 1960 (L.2014.28.16)

Princeton University Art Museum

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Princeton Collects celebrates the gifts and promised gifts of more than 2,000 works of art committed by more than two hundred donors on the occasion of the new Museum facility.

Building on a tradition of philanthropy dating to the eighteenth century, when George Washington underwrote the creation of his iconic portrait by the artist Charles Willson Peale, Princeton Collects occupies the two primary temporary exhibition spaces in the new facility and presents approximately 150 works of art across media, time, cultures, and geographies. Installed in boundary-crossing ways to shape provocative juxtapositions, the exhibition centers some of the most significant works of art received since 2021, including landmark gifts of Abstract Expressionist painting, historical and contemporary photography, early American furniture, nineteenth-century British art, and much more. The largest painting executed to date by the artist Sean Scully anchors the exhibition and is joined by works by artists including Émile Zola, Edward Steichen, Balthus, Hans Hofmann, Joan Mitchell, Sheila Hicks, Donald Sultan, Emmet Gowin, Donna Nelson, Zanele Muholi, and many others.

Princeton Collects Showcases New Gifts to the Museum

Curated by

James Christen Steward ,

Nancy A. Nasher-David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director

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Princeton University Art Museum

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Princeton Collects is made possible by The Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, and Frances Beatty Adler Exhibition Fund; The Donna and Hans J. Sternberg, Class of 1957, Art Museum Program Fund; and The Melanie and John Clarke Exhibition Fund.

Exhibitions at the Princeton University Art Museum are made possible by the following contributors to the Director’s Exhibition Fund: Allen R. Adler and Frances Beatty Adler, Len and Laura Berlik, John L. Cecil and Celia A. Felsher, Jeannie and Jitender Chopra, John and Susan Diekman, William S. Fisher and Sakurako D. Fisher, Stacey Roth Goergen and Robert Goergen, Preston H. Haskell III, Robert and Lynn Johnston, David and Catherine Loevner, Shelly and Tony Malkin, Edward E. Matthews, Dean and Jill Mitchell, Christopher E. Olofson, Anne C. Sherrerd, Preeti and Sanjay Swani, Theodora D. and William H. Walton III.

Additional support has been provided by Tena and Chris Achen, Sarah Lee Elson, Christopher C. and Astrid Forbes, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Paul G. Haaga Jr. and Heather Sturt Haaga, Padmaja Kumari Parmar and Kush M. Parmar, Mark W. Stevens and Annalyn Martha Swan, Judy and Ed Stier, Jonathan Lee Walton.

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