Hunt Slonem COVER PAGE: Chattering Lories, Oil on canvas, 183 x 213 cm Hunt Slonem 2011 HUNT SLONEM

When I first visited Hunt Slonem in his Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggen- Soho studio in 1985 I was transported into heim Museum and the Whitney Museum of a shimmering, vibrating, fluttering world American Art in New York City. alive with extravagant color and natural- istic intensity. From that day I have aimed Hunt Slonem is the subject of an extensive to live in that soaring world through Hunt’s monograph to be published in 2011 by Ven- ; abstractions that pulsate with dome Publishers, NY; text by Dominique repetitions of butterflies, rabbits, monkeys, Nahas. The in-depth 30-year survey, fea- and mostly birds, or mysterious portraits tures more than 600 vibrant illustrations. of animals that capture a silent purity on “Pleasure Palaces: The Art & Homes of Hunt canvas. Slonem” with text by Vincent Katz, was published by PowerHouse Books in 2007. A passionate animal lover who has lived In 2002 Henry R. Abrams published “Hunt with up to 250 birds, Hunt grew up in Ha- Slonem, An Art Rich & Strange” which waii and and describes his work features text by Donald Kuspit. Slonem and homes as, “the recreation of my expe- divides his time between Louisiana where riences in nature as well as … reflections of he owns two plantation homes on the his- my travels and the exotic mystic and mys- toric register, Albania in St. Mary’s Parish tical experiences I’ve had and continue to and Lakeside in Pointe Coupee; and New have.” As viewers we can also feel uplifted York City where he has lived and worked and transformed. since 1973.

Hunt Slonem is a NYC artworld personality Hunt Slonem has received numerous awards Hunt Slonem in his studio who has a following among major contem- including the prestigious “Stars of Design” porary art collectors. Since 1977 he has had award in art October 2009 in New York, in Nashville, TN; and more than 350 exhibitions at galleries and the Greenshields Foundation award, the received a Bachelor of Arts degree from museums internationally. Globally, more National Endowment for the Arts Grant. He of Louisiana. than 100 museums include his work in their studied at Skowhegan School of TEXT BY Anita ALVIN Nilert, collections, among them the Metropolitan Painting & in Skowhegan, ; dep,art,ment, CURATOR Doves and Blue Pearls, Oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm Hummingbirds, Oil on canvas, 122 x 122 cm Silver Lories, Oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm

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Lady Ross Toroco, Oil on wood, 36 x 14 cm Red Butterflies, Oil on wood, 36 x 28 cm Lories, Oil on wood, 41 x 30 cm Rabbit, Oil on wood, 33 x 30 cm Guardians, Oil on wood, 28 x 23 cm Jays, Oil on canvas, 51 x 41 xm Rabbit, Oil on wood, 33 x 30 cm Rabbits, Oil on wood, 28 x 48 cm Amazons, Oil on wood, 36 x 25 cm SwalloWtale, Oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm Bayou Lories, Oil on canvas, 76 x 122 cm Lories, Oil on canvas, 91 x 91 cm Cockatoos, Oil on canvas, 61 x 61 cm Queen of Bavaria Conures, Oil on canvas, 72 x 59 cm Finches, Oil on canvas, 102 x 76 cm White Butterflies, Oil on canvas, 76 x 63 cm Lories, Oil on wood, 59 x 48 cm SOLO EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2000

2000 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Von Stechow, Frankfurt, Germany 2010 12 Gallagher Lane, San Francisco, CA Marlborough Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Museo de Arte de , , C. A. Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Coral Springs Museum “Birds, Butterflies, Bunnies” Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL Coral Springs, FL Heriard-Cimino Gallery, , LA 2006 Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA Galerie de Bellefeuille, 2001 Robert McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL DTR Modern Boston, MA Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Miriam Shiell Gallery, Toronto, Thomas Masters Gallery Chicago, IL Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Harmon-Meek Gallery “Small Works” Nov 21-Dec 21 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Naples, FL Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY Museum Gallery of Modern Art , Mariella Gonzalez Lerena Galeria de Arte, 2007 The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL National Gallery of Foreign Art Sofia, Bulgaria Punta del Este, Uraguay Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL Paul & Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum Marlborough, Anguilla, British West Indies Olin Gallery, Roanoke University , Salem, VA “On the Bayou” Lafayette, LA Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Meadows Museum of Art, Shreveport, LA 2002 Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Martine Chaisson Gallery “Fanciful Fauna” Vanier Gallery, Tucson, AZ Opelousas Museum of Art, Opelousas, FL New Orleans, LA Robert McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH DTR Modern Palm Beach, FL Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA Heriard Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA City of Varna Art Museum Varna, Bulgaria Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Ogden Museum of Southern Art New Orleans, LA ARC Fine Art Fairfield, CT Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, OH Gebert Contemporary Sante Fe, NM Gebert Contemporary Sante Fe, NM 2003 Alva Gallery, New London, CT 2008 Marlborough Chelsea New York, NY Harmon-Meek Gallery “Paintings of Albania Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal Quebec Plantation and Bayou Teche” Naples, FL Handsel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM DTR Modern, Boston, MA 2011 ANNOUNCED Morgan Gallery, Kansas City Heriard-Cimino Gallery New Orleans, LA Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Ten High Street, Camden, M E Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Peabody Museum of Art, Salem, MA Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Cuadro Fine Art, Dubai, UAE Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL 2004 Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ Dec 17 – Mar 11, 2012 Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona Seaside Gallery/Ogden Museum, Seaside, FL George Washington University Museum Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Washington, DC Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2009 DTR Modern, Palm Beach, FL Brenau University Gainesville, GA Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Gallerie Von Stechow, Frankfurt, Germany Gibbs Museum of Art Charleston, SC Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Alexandria Museum Alexandria, LA Louisiana Museum of Art & Science, Baton Rouge, LA Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, LA 2012 Bradbury Gallery at Arkansas State Jonesboro, AR Millenia Gallery, Orlando, FL Rymer Gallery Nashville, TN 2005 Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal Quebec Evansville Museum of Art History & Science, DTR Modern, Boston, MA Evansville, IN PG Art Gallery, , Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ Gettysburg Festival, Gettysburg, PA PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Academy of the Arts, Easton, Maryland Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY Northfield Nt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, MA American Banaco, New York, NY Guilin Art Museum, Guilin Guang XI P.R. China Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, VA Art Museum of West Virginia, Roanoke, VA Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Norway Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK Artbank Program, Department of State, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL Washington D.C. Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT Port Authority, One World Trade Center (), New York, NY Bahrain National Museum, Bahrain UAE Human Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL. Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN Pulitzer Collection, Amsterdam, Holland Bates College Museum of Arts, Olin Art Center, Lewiston, ME The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ of Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Saint Louis University, Cupples House & McNamee Gallery, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL J. Patrick Lannan Gallery, Palm Beach, FL St. Louis, MO Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL Saint Mary’s College, Saint Mary City, MD Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY Le Musée d’Art Haitian, Port au Prince, Haiti Saint Petersburg Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL Bowdoin Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX Brandeis University Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY Salt Queen Foundation, Southampton, NY Alexander Breast Gallery, Jacksonville University Museum, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women’s Sidney Art Gallery and Museum, Port Orchard, WA Jacksonville, FL College, Lynchburg, VA Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Children’s Museum of Naples, Naples, FL Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse, NY Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT Colegio de Architecto, Quito, Ecuador The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Miami-Dade Community College South Campus, Miami, FL Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Miami University, Oxford, OH Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel Coral Springs Museum, Coral Springs, FL Mills College Art Museum, Mills College, Oakland, CA Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS United States Department of State, Washington, D.C. Danville Museum, Danville, VA Mita Corporation, Fairfield, NJ University of Arizona, Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, PA University of Maine at Machias Art Galleries, Machias, ME Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain University of Michigan, Art Museum Project, Dearborn, MI Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Art Center, Norman, OK Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Delgado University, New Orleans, LA The , Washington, DC Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN Neuberger Museum, Purchase College/State University of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY New York, Purchase, NY Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Farnsworth Library & Art Museum, Rockland, ME Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Von Leibig Art Center, Naples, FL Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI New York Academy of Art, New York, NY Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, FL New York Historical Society, New York, NY Wurth Museum, Kunzelsau, Germany Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain Newark Museum, Newark, NJ EXHIBITION ONGOING THROUGH OCTOBER 2 OPENING RECEPTION SEPTEMBER 8 FROM 17:00 to 20:00 CURATED BY ANITA ALVIN NILERT, DEP,ART,MENT

Peace Plan, oil on canvas, 76 x 102 cm

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