Into the Wosk Collection: Discovery & Wonder is a title that barely scratches the surface of the impact and passion of the collector at its heart. <\/p>\n
From Matisse to Ansel Adams, the display opening at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria this month takes a tour through Wosk\u2019s remarkable collection of photographs, prints, and etchings<\/p>\n
Dr. Josef Wosk is a prominent Canadian multidisciplinary scholar, rabbi, philanthropist, art collector, and community activist based in Vancouver whose interests span from books, manuscripts, photographs, prints, paintings, sculptures, and furniture to a variety of cultural objects.<\/p>\n
This collection is co-curated by artist Adad Hannah and Audain Art Museum\u2019s chief curators Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky and Kiriko Watanabe, with support from collection advisor and art historian Spencer W. Stuart.<\/p>\n
Highlights include portraits by internationally renowned photographers Naomi Savage, Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Anne Brigman. Portraiture is a notable strength in the collection, as exemplified by Henri Cartier-Bresson\u2019s photograph of Henri Matisse with doves, Diego Rivera\u2019s photograph of Frida Kahlo and Emmy Lou Packard, Alexander Liberman\u2019s image of Marcel Duchamp\u2019s hands playing chess, and Man Ray\u2019s close portrait of Ernest Hemingway.<\/p>\n
Still life images by Edward Weston and Walker Evans, Brassai\u2019s Chartres in Winter, Berenice Abbott\u2019s New York at Night, Ansel Adams\u2019s Half Dome and Moon, and Fred Herzog\u2019s black-and-white photographs further illustrate the breadth and depth of Wosk\u2019s photographic holdings.<\/p>\n
The exhibition also includes etchings by Pablo Picasso, Francisco Goya, and Rembrandt van Rijn; lithographs by Marc Chagall and Odilon Redon; and several pochoir prints from a well-preserved edition of Henri Matisse\u2019s Jazz suite.<\/p>\n
Into the Wosk Collection: Discovery & Wonder runs at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Nov. 7 through April 25, 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Into the Wosk Collection: Discovery & Wonder is a title that barely scratches the surface of the impact…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-953680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}