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Aug 30, 2008: Precious Gifts of Asian Art at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This exhibit features a choice presentation of recent gifts by longtime Cummer friends such as Dr. Diane DeMell Jacobsen and Dr. Walter Scott. Among the "precious gifts" one will find Japanese scroll paintings, Han Dynasty ceramic horses, two Ming [...]

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Aug 30, 2008: The American Collection at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

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The museum's American art collection contains over one thousand paintings, sculptures, decorative arts and works on paper dating from the eighteenth century to the present.
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Aug 30, 2008: The Antiquities Collection at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

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This collection contains fine examples of the art of Egypt, Etruria, Greece and Rome that date from 2100 B.C. to 300 A.D. On display are statuary, relief sculpture, funerary objects, black-figure and red-figure pottery, jewelry, mosaic and daily implements.
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Aug 30, 2008: The Meissen Porcelain Collection at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

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This collection of early Meissen porcelain is one of the three finest and most comprehensive collections in the world. Ralph Wark (1902-1987) bought his first Meissen piece in 1922, and over the next sixty years acquired more than seven hundred pieces.
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Aug 29, 2008: The Meissen Porcelain Collection at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments

This collection of early Meissen porcelain is one of the three finest and most comprehensive collections in the world. Ralph Wark (1902-1987) bought his first Meissen piece in 1922, and over the next sixty years acquired more than seven hundred pieces.
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Aug 29, 2008: Precious Gifts of Asian Art at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments

This exhibit features a choice presentation of recent gifts by longtime Cummer friends such as Dr. Diane DeMell Jacobsen and Dr. Walter Scott. Among the "precious gifts" one will find Japanese scroll paintings, Han Dynasty ceramic horses, two Ming Dynasty jars and netsuke and inro objects.
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Aug 29, 2008: Special Collections at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

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The museum is home to four special collections: The Dennis C. Hayes Collection of 190 Japanese woodblock prints; The Eugene Louis Charvot Collection of nineteenth-century prints and paintings; The James McBey Collection of prints, drawings and watercolors; and The Joseph Jeffers Dodge Collection of paintings, drawings, photographs and journals.
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Aug 29, 2008: The American Collection at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

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The museum's American art collection contains over one thousand paintings, sculptures, decorative arts and works on paper dating from the eighteenth century to the present.
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Aug 29, 2008: The Antiquities Collection at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments

This collection contains fine examples of the art of Egypt, Etruria, Greece and Rome that date from 2100 B.C. to 300 A.D. On display are statuary, relief sculpture, funerary objects, black-figure and red-figure pottery, jewelry, mosaic and daily implements.
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Aug 28, 2008: The European Collection at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

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The European collection at the museum contains over eleven hundred paintings, sculptures, works on paper and decorative arts dating from the twelfth to twentieth centuries. The collection is arranged chronologically and presents a comprehensive tour through western art history.
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