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Sally Mann, Leah and her Father, 1983-1985. Gift from the Roy and Elizabeth Zimmerman Collection

Introduction

Heads Up! Recent Gifts to the Collection

July 31, 2015 - January 10, 2016

Museum collections are built from the great generosity of donors who either make gifts of artworks or give the funds used to purchase them. This exhibition celebrates an impressive group of contemporary works on paper that were given to the RISD Museum over the past five years by seventeen benefactors. In most cases, the work on view is just a sample of the objects that came with that donation.

As a theme that could unite a diverse group of gifts, portraiture and more generalized depictions of the face stood out. The human likeness, one of art’s oldest subjects, continues to provoke intense investigation. While some of these images record physical and emotional characteristics of an individual, others use the face as a canvas for conveying the human condition.

We are deeply grateful to the donors who have enriched our collection with the works on view here, and to all the donors who since 2010 have given more than 1,700 prints, drawings, and photographs to the collection.

Selected Objects

Naomi Fisher

P.B. X-ed, 2010

Eugene Feldman

Girl from Brooklyn ¾ Profile (B. Streisand), 1966

Eugene Feldman

Girl from Brooklyn ¾ Profile (B. Streisand), 1966

Eugene Feldman

Girl from Brooklyn ¾ Profile (B. Streisand), 1966

Donald Baechler

Untitled, 1987

Lucas Samaras

Pose 0031 Ken Fernandez, 2009

Lucas Samaras

Pose 0391 Peter Galassi, 2010

Lucas Samaras

Pose 0188 Jasper Johns, 2009

Lucas Samaras

Pose 0534 Lisa Phillips, 2010

Lucas Samaras

Pose 0065 Agnes Gund, 2009

Naomi Fisher

P.B. X-ed, 2011

Kiki Smith

Untitled (Self Portrait), 1996

Nicole Eisenman

Untitled, 2012

Nicole Eisenman

Untitled, 2012

Fred Wilson

X, 2005

Dave Heath

Kansas City, 1967

Belkis Ayón

Untitled, 1999

Susan Rothenberg

Head and Hand, 1980

Jim Dine

Colossos, 2009

Jim Dine

Faded Eyes in My Head, 2009

Fazal Sheikh

Rachel and Ochol, Family Section, Sudanese Refugee Camp, Lokichoggio, Kenya, 1992-1993

Sally Mann

Leah and her Father, 1983 - 1985

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

Idelia, 1995 (printed 1997)

Dave Heath

New York City, ca. 1960

Weegee

Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, ca. 1943

Emma Amos

Miss Otis, 2002

Robert Pruitt

Chief Mechanic, 2012

Robert Pruitt

Star Pilot, 2012

Betye Saar

Mystic Sky with Self-Portrait, 1992

Paul Meleschnig

Untitled, 2000, printed 2012

Luis González Palma

Untitled, 1998

Luis González Palma

Untitled, 1998

Naomi Fisher

P.B. X-ed, 2010

More objects +

Exhibition Checklist

Heads Up! Recent Gifts to the Collection

July 31, 2015 - January 10, 2016
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