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8060
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The North Carolina Museum of Art is one of only two art museums in the country to have a permanent display of Jewish ceremonial art. The Judaic Art Gallery was founded by the late Dr. Abram Kanof. Among the items in the collection are ornaments that decorate the Torah and a rare late 18th-century silver Torah shield.
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13722
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The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is home to the most visible expression of Jewish cultural heritage in the South. Housed in the Judaic Art Gallery, the collection owes much to Dr. Abram Kanof, who championed its creation. The museum is one of only two general collections in the nation with a permanent Judaic collection.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 10, Mar 2011,
p140-142, 144, 146-147, il
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25595
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The North Carolina Museum of Art is the only state gallery in the United States with a permanent collection of ceremonial Judaica displayed as art. The permanent Judaic Gallery is the result of a six-week exhibition, “Ceremonial Art in the Judaic Tradition” by guest curator Abram Kanof. He initiated a fundraising campaign and contributed a number of pieces from his personal collection.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 2 Issue 17, September 14-27 1984,
p17, 18-19, por
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27549
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Durham native Caroline Vaughan is a photographer with a national reputation. She is recognized for capturing the small and ordinary moments and was named on the 43 undiscovered masters of photography in 1977. Her work is held in collections by major museums in North America. Vaughan works during the week as a researcher at the Duke Development Office and spends her free time pursuing photography. Vaughan discusses the importance of time and patience to her work and in her life.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 21, July 27- Aug. 2 1989,
p7-9
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29081
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The North Carolina Museum of Art opened a new African gallery featuring decorative and ceremonial artifacts, as well as contemporary artworks. Linda Dougherty, the museum’s chief and contemporary curator, discusses the meaning of the collection and the challenges of merging folk and fine art.
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29187
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A pair of paintings by the Italian artist Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728-1781) was recently given to the museum with funds from the Robert F. Phifer Bequest. The paintings Mercury Lulling Argus to Sleep and Mercury About to Decapitate Argus were probably part of a set of four paintings which told a story and likely hung on the walls of a private residence. The subject matter, the quality, the artist, and the benefits of the gift are all described.
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29216
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The North Carolina Museum of Arts’ collection of European paintings is one of the finest and most important in the United States. The history of the collections’ acquisition and rationale for collection is detailed from the 1940s through the 1960s. Until the opening of the new museum, the collection was primarily viewed outside of North Carolina due to a lack of space at the old museum. Beginning September 10, the European paintings will be on view in a series of sequential galleries in the new museum after restoration work in the museum's new conservation laboratory.
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29281
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The Museum has recently acquired American Landscape with Revolutionary Heroes, 1983, by Roger Brown, American, 1941- and Study for the “Race of the Riderless Horses,” circa 1820, by Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet, French, 1789-1863. Brown’s painting was purchased with funds from the Madeleine Johnson Heidrick bequest and depicts Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and other revolutionary war heroes in shadow. Vernet’s painting was purchased with funds given by MR. and Mrs. Warner L. Atkins and is a study for another work, depicting a popular horse race held during the Roman carnival season in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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29290
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The Museum recently acquired works titled Cabbage Worship, 1982, by Gilbert and George, British and Agony in the Garden, by Giovanni “Guercino” Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), Italian. Cabbage Worship addresses how individuals put their faith in fake causes by having individuals worship a head of cabbage. Agony in the Garden was painted between 1627 and 1632, probably for the altar of a chapel in the church of St. Margherita in Bologna, and depicts an angel appearing to Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. A description and short biography of the artists is described.
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29306
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Several sixteenth- and seventeenth- century works were received at the Museum as gifts from the late Mrs. George Khuner of Beverly Hills, California. The gift includes seventeen Dutch, Flemish, Italian, and German paintings. The masterpiece of the group is a work titled Virgin and Child in a Landscape by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553). Cranach was highly influential upon his contemporaries and his biography and the painting are briefly described.
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29354
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A terracotta sculpture by French artist Joseph Charles Marin (1759-1834) was recently purchased by the Museum. The sculpture is titled Bacchante Carrying a Child on Her Shoulders and was sculpted during the late 18th century when such sculptures were popular. Marin was a student and collaborator of the artist Claude-Michel Clodion and likely created the figure between the 1780s and 1796.
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29388
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The Museum recently acquired three sculptures and an African headdress. The Dead Christ by Italian Giuseppe Mazzuoli (1655-1725) is a bronze sculpture of Christ after his death and is considered one of the best examples of late Roman baroque sculpture in the United States. The wood carvings with beads of a Pair of Ibeji (Twin Figures) are from Nigeria’s Yoruba tribe and the figures were used in a ritual after the death of twins in child birth. The Sawfish Headdress is from Nigeria’s Ibo tribe and is made of wood with paint and mirror glass. The headdress is in the form of a sawfish, is 7 feet in length, and was worn at festivals or masquerades to gain favor with the water spirits.
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29411
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The Museum recently acquired a Greek bronze furniture attachment in the form of a roundel with a bust of Silenus from the late Hellenistic period. The Greek character Silenus was the tutor of the god of wine Dionysus. The attachment would have been found on a couch used by diners and partygoers as a symbol of wine and good times.
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29474
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Anthony Caro’s Table Piece CXCIV sculpture was recently acquired by the Museum. Caro is a British artist who has primarily created abstract sculptures over the past few years. Table Piece CXCIV is made of welded steel and appears thrown together, but was constructed with great care. Caro explains that the meaning of the piece is conveyed by its gesture and form rather than by its geometric shape or realistic representation of something.
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29480
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To commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of its opening, the Museum will present an exhibition of fort-five seventeenth-century Dutch paintings from its collection. This collection is considered one of the finest in the United States and will be paired with approximately thirty etchings and copper plates by Rembrandt lent from the collection of Robert Lee Humber. The history of Dutch art in the seventeenth century is discussed in depth and is unlike art from other European countries during the seventeenth century. The Dutch art from the time period is characterized as being more human and natural, reflecting contemporary life.
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