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23 Maine - The traditional fifth anniversary present is wood

Gifts to UM museum a boon to art lovers
Maine - The traditional fifth anniversary present is wood. But the University of Maine Museum of Art gets to celebrate its fifth year downtown with two gifts that blow tradition out of the water.

On Thursday night, UM officials announced a donation from Machias Savings Bank that will make museum admission free to the public through the end of 2008. In addition, professor Jon Ippolito has donated eight works by his father, the renowned abstract expressionist painter Angelo Ippolito, which are valued at more than $350,000.

“By any standard, today has been a tremendous day for the University of Maine, especially the museum of art,” UM President Robert Kennedy told the crowd at Thursday’s art opening.

The donation from Machias Savings Bank was given in memory of Ted Leonard, a Bangor lawyer and UM alumnus who was a tireless advocate for the museum. At the time of his death in November, Leonard and his wife, Sandra, were trying to secure funding to make the museum accessible to more people.

is located at 40 Harlow St. in Bangor. The current exhibition, “A Legacy of Collecting: 1983-Present,” will be on view through April 5. For information, call 561-3350 or visit www.umma.umaine.edu.

22 La Tour Eiffel-La Tour, Robert Delaunay

La Tour Eiffel-La Tour, Robert Delaunay, 1926, lithograph. Collection of the University of Maine Museum of Art. Promised gift of Robert Venn Carr, Jr., 1938.

Between 1922 and 1928, Robert Delaunay drew five original transfer lithographs after magisterial paintings, each representing a major theme in his career. Three of the prints, including the Eiffel Tower and Window on the City were originally intended for the album “Saint Severin: Dix lithographes originales de Robert Delaunay,” which was never published. These lithographs are striking because of their austere monochrome and monumental format. Over the next thirty years, Delaunay repeatedly represented the Eiffel Tower, completing some thirty paintings, drawings and prints. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s collection includes seven examples of this series. University of Maine
Museum of Art
Norumbega Hall
40 Harlow Street
Bangor, Maine 04401-5102
207-561-3350

21 University of Maine

Diverse histories, multiple meanings: a body of work born of many cultures. On this varied foundation is a structure, its doors open, waiting to be explored. At the University of Maine stands the state’s only citizen-owned museum to house a permanent fine arts collection. With grants from The Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Museum was established with the goal of educating the public about art’s manifold histories and cultural meanings. The Museum utilizes a remarkable model for access — over 20% of the 6,700-piece collection is on rotating display in public spaces throughout campus.

Highlights include works by Winslow Homer, Max Beckmann, Francisco Goya, George Inness, Käthe Kollwitz and Pablo Picasso. In addition, the Museum offers a significant body of contemporary art, featuring works on paper by Jim Dine, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Murray.

20 Maine art museum

To showcase the magnificent beauty of Maine, seven Maine art museums invite you to explore The Maine Art Museum Trail.

This trails offers more than 53,000 works of art, from ancient to contemporary, in world-class collections featuring works by the many artists associated with Maine, such as Marsden Hartley. John Marin, Rockwell Kent, Louise Nevelson and Alex Katz. Maine art museums also include treasures ranging from masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt and Pablo Picasso to early American silver and furniture, as well as contemporary textiles. prints ceramics and sculpture.