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Contact: Raphael Gatchalian

USC Fisher Museum of Art

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USC FISHER MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT PERMANENT COLLECTION

Seven Decades of Collecting: Celebrating the USC Fisher Museum of Art showcases Fisher’s most recent acquisitions and most prized possessions.

Los Angeles- The University of Southern California Fisher Museum of Art presents the exhibition Seven Decades of Collecting: Celebrating the USC Fisher Museum of Art, a selection of artworks from the Museum’s permanent collection. Organized by USC Fisher Museum of Art curator Ariadni A. Liokatis, the exhibition will be on view from December 3, 2008 to February 8, 2009. Seven Decades of Collecting will showcasesome ofthe museum’s most prized possessions as well as recent acquisitions ranging from 16th century European paintings to 21st century Spanish and Latin American art.

Seven Decades of Collecting: Celebrating the USC Fisher Museum of Art traces over 70 years of collecting with art from the founding collection of Elizabeth Holmes Fisher, the Museum’s namesake and founder, and Armand Hammer. A selection of 16th& 17th c Italian and Dutch masterworks, 17th & 18th c European portraits, and 19th and early 20th c American and European landscapes will be on display. Three major European works of art, having been on a long-term loan to the Getty Museum, will be displayed together at the Fisher Museum for the first time in years. Of important note is the 16th c Bacchiacca’s Portrait of a Woman and Child, which has recently been conserved and never shown before at Fisher. The Fisher Museum is proud to display artwork that has been on loan to museums locally, nationally, and internationally, such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, the Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Mauritshuis in the agueHHague (Holland), the Dulwich Picture Gallery in England, as well as other venues in Mexico City, Italy, Germany, and Belgium.

The exhibition will also feature our contemporary holdings and most recent acquisitions: Carmen Calvo, Mira Bernabeu, Salomon Huerta, Patssi Valdez, Gronk, Marta Palau, and Einar and Jamex de la Torre are among the artists to be showcased. We will also be introducing Kate Ingold, an artist from Chicago whose work represents a convergence of Mexico and Chicago in its cityscape's embrace of the Virgin of Guadalupe. This exhibition provides a window into the history of collecting in the context of a university museum, and a reflection both on past collecting practices and current and future collecting trends.

About USC Fisher Museum of Art

The USC Fisher Museum of Art, formerly Fisher Gallery – established 1939 – was the first museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to the exhibition and collection of fine art. As a university museum, accredited by the American Association of Museums, it functions as a center of intellectual inquiry and aesthetic enjoyment in support of USC’s goals of research, teaching, artistic creation, and service to society. The Fisher Museum bears special responsibility to link art to all of the university’s present and future audiences: students, faculty, staff alumni, and surrounding communities.

Since its opening in 1939, USC Fisher Museum has grown significantly in stature and prominence as the museum of USC. In addition to showing the permanent collection, the Museum presents traveling exhibitions and organizes its own successful exhibitions, offering the campus and community, as well as the greater Los Angeles area, a wide variety of changing exhibitions. USC Fisher Museum offers programming to support its exhibitions such as lectures, artist’s talks, film screenings, concerts, and poetry readings.

General Information

For general information, programming, press information, images, or to schedule an interview, call (213) 821-1265.

Museum Hours and Admission

Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 pm; closed Sunday and Monday and university holidays. Admission to the exhibition and all related events are free. Call (213) 740-4561 or visit for more information.

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