The Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida, announced that some 80 artworks will be added to the museum’s collection via a combination of acquisitions and promised gifts. The new works cover a wide range of mediums and time periods, in step with the museum’s focus on European, American, and Chinese art.
Highlights include one of Fred Eversley’s parabolic lens sculptures; a 1981 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat; Mary Cassatt’s drawing Mother Jeanne Nursing Her Baby; a trio of works (a film, a painting, and a sculpture) by Rashid Johnson; and three new blue-and-white porcelain objects from the Qing dynasty.
The Norton Museum of Art—the largest institution in Florida—reopened in 2019 after an extensive renovation by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Norman Foster’s firm Foster + Partners. The new building added 12,000 square feet of gallery space, along with a sculpture garden. Current exhibitions include “Artists’ Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection,” featuring wearable objects by artists like Picasso, Dali, Jeff Koons, and Alexander Calder, and “Achromatic Scales,” featuring photographic installations by Leslie Hewitt.
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Mary Cassatt: Mother Jeanne Nursing Her Baby, 1907–08.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Gunga Din, 1981.
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Fred Eversley: Untitled (parabolic lens), 1981.
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Fabiola Menchelli: running towards the fire, 2023.
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Lidded Jar with Panels Depicting Antiquities on a Plum Blossom and Cracked Ice Ground, 1662–1722.