CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
HOME, LOVE, AND LOSS
ON VIEW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 14
This exhibition brings together more than 66 works from the esteemed collections of Art Bridges, the Amarillo Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Art Museum of South Texas, and the Ellen Noël Art Museum. Artists whose work is on view in this exhibition include Georgia O’Keeffe, Fairfield Porter, John Marin, Thomas Hart Benton, T.C. Cannon, Melissa Miller, and Luis Jimenez, among many others.
This is one n a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art as part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program
JERI SALTER: RUGGED BEAUTY OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
ON VIEW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 28
One of Texas’ foremost pastel artists, Jeri Salter often travels from her Hill Country home to the Panhandle to capture the ever-changing light and weather of this region in sweeping landscapes, capturing the effect of “the faraway nearby.”
India, 20th century, Cast Bronze; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price
THE COLLECTION OF DR. & MRS. WILLIAM T. PRICE
ONGOING
The Amarillo Museum of Art’s Asian art collection has grown dramatically over the past 10 years through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price of Amarillo. Their donations of art objects have and will spark a variety of significant exhibitions, introducing Asian art and culture to the Texas Panhandle community and to visitors near and far.
Over the past 50 years, Dr. and Mrs. Price have collected sculpture, prints, paintings, textiles and decorative arts from South/Southeast Asia, Japan and the Middle East. They have donated over 300 works to the Permanent Collection, including nearly 150 Edo Period (1615-1868) Japanese Woodblock Prints, and over 15 significant Hindu and Buddhist sculptures dating from the 2nd– 19th centuries. The origins of these sculptures include India, Cambodia, Nepal and Indonesia (including works from Java’s monumental Buddhist temple complex, Borobudur). Textiles are also one of the Price’s passions, and they have generously donated over 75 Islamic prayer rugs and secular rugs, saddle blankets and bags from such countries as Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, Spain and Tibet.
In February 2005, the Museum and its Board of Trustees honored Dr. and Mrs. Price with the naming of a Museum gallery in their honor; it is now called the Price Gallery of Asian Art.