COLLECTIONS ON TOUR Ernest L. Blumenschein, Star Road and White Sun, ca. 1920, oil on canvas, Albuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1985 General Obligation Bonds, Albuquerque High School Collection gift of classes 1943, 1944, and 1945
SOUTHWEST TO MIDWEST TO SCANDINAVIA In May 2020, the Milwaukee Art Museum opens the exhibition Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980. Organized by Milwaukee and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this major international exhibition presents the extensive exchange of design ideas between the United States and the Nordic countries—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—between 1890
Beyond the Basement
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Loaning pieces from the collection helps raise the Museum’s renown.
and 1980. Among the artworks that will travel with the exhibition is an experimental textile work by Alice Kagawa Parrott titled Birdcage. Parrott was a member of the University of New Mexico Art Department where she taught weaving and ceramics. Now her work, which has not been on view recently at the Albuquerque Museum, will be seen in Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Stockholm, and Oslo
HE LOWER
LEVEL OF THE
ALBUQUERQUE
materials for the Museum’s cu-
launched eMuseum online
before returning to Albuquer-
rators, who constantly research
collections catalogue, curators
que in 2022.
potential exhibitions. The
and scholars from around the
MUSEUM contains
permanent collection isn’t just
country and the world view
over 30,000 art and history ob-
for the enjoyment and educa-
items in the Albuquerque
AN AMERICAN TOUR TO ANOTHER WORLD
jects, carefully catalogued and
tion of Albuquerque Museum
Museum permanent collection
The travelling exhibition
held in state-of-the-art archival
visitors. It’s a national—and in-
and request to borrow them
Another World: The Transcen-
storage units. The Museum’s
ternational—resource. Through
for scholaraly exhibitions they
dental Painting Group features
collections serve as invaluable
networking and the recently
are developing.
approximately 75 works,
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SPRING 2020
Art. History. People.
