June 16, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Sarah Boehme, Director
409.886.ARTS (2787)
sboehme@starkmuseum.org
Stark Museum Extends Blooms Exhibition
ORANGE, Texas, June 16 – The Stark Museum of Art will extend its special exhibition Blooms: Floral Art in the Stark Collections, which was previously scheduled to close on June 12, 2010.
Sarah Boehme, Director of the Stark Museum of Art, explained that Blooms will remain on view through much of the summer, “We want to have a special exhibition in Gallery 5 during the summer when people are traveling. We are preparing for some upgrades to the Museum’s interior which will involve closing galleries, but we want to postpone shutting this gallery.”
Boehme explained that the exhibition would contain changes after June 12, “We will turn the pages of the botanical publications to new images and rotate different prints into the exhibition for preservation purposes. Thus visitors who have seen the exhibition will find an array of changed floral images.”
Blooms focuses on the flower as an inspiration for the visual arts in printed rare books, decorative arts and twentieth-century still life paintings. The exhibition includes an educational area for children and families with interactive learning elements such as a matching game, reading area and flower drawing station.
Located at 712 Green Avenue in Orange, Texas, the Stark Museum of Art is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Admission is free. Group tours are available by appointment. For more information call 409.886.ARTS (2787) or visit
www.starkmuseum.org.
Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)
Roses
1799-1807, mezzotint, aquatint, stipple and line engraving on paper, color and hand-coloring
In The Temple of Flora
11.66.1
About the Stark Museum of Art
The Stark Museum of Art focuses on the stunning land, the dramatic people and the diverse wildlife of the American West. Paintings, sculpture and prints interpret the West from nineteenth century frontier artists to the twentieth century artistic colonies in New Mexico. Artists include John James Audubon, Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell, and Georgia O’Keeffe.
The Museum also features a significant collection of American Indian objects, including baskets, pottery, clothing and weavings. Other permanent collections in the Museum include the complete porcelain American Bird Series by Dorothy Doughty and the only complete series of The United States in Crystal, a collection of crystal urns produced by Steuben Glass to depict the 50 states and the Union.
The Stark Museum of Art is a program of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, a private operating foundation, whose other programs include the Frances Ann Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts, Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, and The W.H. Stark House.