On display Jewish Museum borrows Crystal Bridges’ pieces
Posted on Saturday, April 7, 2007
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BENTONVILLE — The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is making its name known across the world — and more of the museum’s acquisitions will be on display at another world-renowned museum.
The portraits of the Levy-Franks Family, attributed to Gerardus Duyckinck and dating from the 1720 s to 1735, will be exhibited consecutively in pairs from today through June 2009 at The Jewish Museum in New York City.
The first two portraits will be on view from April 7 through Dec. 31, the second pair from January through September 2008, and the third pair from October 2008 through June 2009, the year Crystal Bridges is scheduled to open.
Crystal Bridges Executive Director Bob Workman said the museum can provide even more ways to preview its collection before the museum’s opening. The Jewish Museum is the 10 th institution to receive a loan from Crystal Bridges, Workman said.
In all cases when works are lent for display, Crystal Bridges is named as the source of the loan on the work’s identification label.
Workman said he also looks forward to working with The Jewish Museum “ about some collaborative programming that we might do, ” for example, co-sponsoring a lecture or offering joint programs between the two museums.
“ Overall, it puts our name out in front of the visitor to the museum and to the community itself. It gets very large exposure for us, ” Workman said.
“ It is a great privilege and honor to assume the preservation, presentation and interpretation of this unique and important suite of paintings rich in Colonial America’s history, ” Workman said. “ We are grateful to The Jewish Museum for providing public access to these works until they can be shared with new audiences upon our opening in 2009. ”
“ We are delighted to share these fascinating examples of Colonial American portraiture with the public, ” said Susan L. Braunstein, chairwoman of curatorial affairs at The Jewish Museum. “ Visitors to The Jewish Museum now have a rare opportunity to view the oldest paintings of American Jews still in existence. This is also a great story of a family living in New York around the time of the Revolutionary War, ” she added.
Workman said Crystal Bridges plans to make additional works available on loan, and that several loans are pending.