Cranbrook Art Museum - Exhibitions - Top 40! Sculptors’ Drawings from the Collection of Tom and Kitty Stoner


[Recently concluded] Top 40! Sculptors’ Drawings from the Collection of Tom and Kitty Stoner September 16, 2006-November 5, 2006 The drawings included in the exhibition, Top 40! Sculptors’ Drawings from the Collection of Tom and Kitty Stoner, provide a rare look into the working processes of sculptors and survey the historical styles of major 20th-century art movements. Inspired by the concept of a radio station play list, the exhibition features 40 drawings by 40 distinguished European and American sculptors of the past 100 years. Among the works featured in the exhibition are drawings by Pablo Picasso, Alexander Archipenko, Constantin Brancusi, Alberto Giacometti, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse and Jeff Koons. Marking the beginning of the creative process, some of the works are preparatory, including Jean Dubuffet’s Character with a Hat, which preceded realized sculptures. Other works in the show, including an untitled drawing by Sol LeWitt, are plans of a technical nature, and while still others are studies of the relationship between form and space. Top 40! was organized and presented at the University of Iowa Museum of Art in 2003. image at top: Jean Dubuffet, 1901-1985 "Character with a Hat" August 20, 1972 Color marker © 2006 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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Cranbrook Art Museum’s 2006-2007 Exhibition Season, including the presentation of Top 40!, is generously sponsored by LaSalle Bank. The Art Museum’s exhibitions also are presented with the support of the Museum Committee of Cranbrook Art Museum including Adele Acheson, Maggie Allesee, John Berry, Jonathan Boos, Deborah Bragman, Maxine Frankel, Ralph Graham, Stanley Grandon, John Henke III, Jonathan Holtzman, Diane Kirkpatrick, David Klein, Til M. Klem, Corrine Lemberg, Wendy MacGaw, Diane VanderBeke Mager, Abigail Murray, James A. Nichols, Michael Poris, Ruth Rattner, Cathy Rosenthal, Jane Schulak, Gilbert B. Silverman, Ronald S. Swanson, Gary L. Wasserman, and Pamela Applebaum Wyett. Cranbrook Art Museum is supported, in part, by the memberships and fund-raising activities of ArtMembers@Cranbrook, including both Fanfare and Serious Moonlight; contributors to the Annual Fund of both Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum; and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Cranbrook Art Museum is a non-profit contemporary art museum, and an integral part of Cranbrook Academy of Art, a community of artists-in-residence and graduate-level students of art, design and architecture. Cranbrook Academy of Art and Cranbrook Art Museum are a part of Cranbrook Educational Community, which also includes Cranbrook’s Institute of Science, Schools and other affiliated cultural and educational programs. Cranbrook Art Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums. For information call toll free 1-877-GO-CRANBrook (1-877-462-7262). To become a member of ArtMembers@Cranbrook call 248-645-3032. Museum Hours Wednesday through Sunday, 11am – 5pm Fourth Fridays, 11am – 9pm Closed Mondays and Tuesdays and the following holidays during the exhibition: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Day, New Year’s Eve and Day Cranbrook Art Museum Members: Free! Adults: $6 Full-Time Students with ID and Teens 13 and over: $4 Senior Citizens (65+): $4 Children 12 and under: Free! No credit cards accepted Personal checks welcomed U.S. currency only For more information, please call 1.877.GO.CRANBrook. (1.877.462.7262)