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“My first checklist of this exhibition was enormous.
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“I had a lot of help” from senior curators, Zebro says. Other than Cassatt’s 1898 “Portrait of Master Hammond,” the art all comes from the 20th or 21st century and represents the breadth of the museum’s collection, from abstract sculpture to fashion design. Zebro, curatorial associate for modern and contemporary art, chose 50 works to come out of the museum’s underground, temperature-controlled storage facilities for the exhibition, which opened June 7. How 'In the Company of Women' exhibit came together It’s unclear if the painting passed through an intermediary owner, but clearly it has found a better home than family storage. It was donated it anonymously to the Phoenix Art Museum.” After that this painting was left in storage for decades. “Clare gave the painting to her friend Frank Crowninshield and after Frank passed away his son returned it to Clare’s family. “At Clare’s request, sculptor Isamu Noguchi paint(ed) out the part of the legend that has Luce’s name,” the website’s history explains. So we have a lot of our iconic pieces on view in this exhibition, but never have they been seen together with their contemporaries, in the same context, in the same gallery space.”Īccording to, Luce considered destroying the painting but was persuaded by friends to desist. This is more of a survey exhibition putting these works in a new context. “A lot of these artists would not necessarily identify as being feminist artists, so that is not what the exhibition is about. However, says show curator Rachel Sadvary Zebro, “This is not a feminist exhibition. The Phoenix Art Museum has 19,000 artworks in its permanent collection, but among its most valuable possessions is one of Frida Kahlo’s most famous and controversial paintings, 1938’s “The Suicide of Dorothy Hale.”ĭonated anonymously to the museum in 1960, the painting is back on display - as well as a Georgia O’Keeffe and a Mary Cassatt - as part of “In the Company of Women,” an exhibition drawn from the permanent collection and inspired in part by the groundswell of activism by women in the wake of the 2017 Women’s March and the #MeToo movement.