..~ Museum of Modern Art No.4; 53 Street, NewYork, N.Y. 10019 Circle 5·8900 Cable, Modernart FOR RELEASE: Tuesday, May 11, 1965 PRESS PREVIEW: Monday,Mey 10, 1965 11 a.m, - 4 p.m. ICANCOLLAGES,anexhibition from The Museumof Modern Art's special program of traveling exhibitions, will interrupt its current tour end be shCMnat the Museum from May11 through July 25. Twice as manyexhibitions are circulated in the United States and Canada by the Museum'SDapartment of Circulating Exhibitions as are shown yearly at the Museum in NewYork. Last year the exhibitions "lere seen in 139 com- MoMAExh_0766_MasterChecklist munities. The same department, in charge of the Kuseum's foreign program of Circu- lating Exhibitions sponsored by the International Council of the Museum, has prepared 75 exhibitions secu in 65 countries. I The<lOrksin the collage sbow, dating from 1950 to the present, deal with a I i The term I mediumwhich has grown in importance only during the last fifty years. "collage," from the French for pasting or paper-hanging, has been broad ly interpreted I as a technique of cutting and pasting various materials which are aometimes combined with drawing, watercoloor or oil. The exhibition includes the work of someof the foremost makers of collage in I li I this country __ Robert Motherwell, Esteban Vicente, Conred Marca-Rel and Joseph Cornell _ as well as other artists who have broadened the medium. Kynaston McShine, whodirected the exhibition, writes, "[Collage] has been a means of creative liberation, leading us to recogGize not only the beauty of ephemera but also that of texture and spatial effects different from those of painting and sculpture. It bas addedmucb to t~bat ,Ie accept as art -- severe and formal juxta- positions of everyday scraps of paper as well as arrangements of pristine materials seemingly arrived at by accident or chance." The freedom of their own painting styles is found in the collages of Motherwell and Alfred Leslie and in the sensuOUSabstract arrangements of Esteban Vicente.' The informality. of abstract expressionism is also felt in the work of Angelo ..I.ppolito, wbomakeahis pictures from torn pages of the airmail edition of the (more) -2- (43) London~, and Gene Hedge, whose highly textured compositions are made from insulating materiaL Restrained figurative compositions of cut and pasted colored paper, on the other hand, reflect Alex Katz' painting style, which is at once straightforward and witty. The poetry of juxtaposed images is seen in the work of Joseph Cornell, whose two-dimensional works show the same magic as the unique three-dimensional boxes which have made him one of the most individual American artists working in sssembled art. The collages of Conrad Marca-Rclli show a unique mOVCln<lntofthe edges rather than of surfaces, of cut-out, overlapping pieces of paper or plastic; his collages MoMAExh_0766_MasterChecklist becomeintricate puzzles in compressed space. Robert Goodnough, Jess, Nicholas Krushenick, Ann Ryan, and Charmion von Wiegandare a lso represented. A}IERICANCOLLAGESisone of 36 exhibitions now circulating in the United States and Canada. In 1931, just two years after its founding, the Huseum sent out its first trave ling show. TI~oyears later, the Museum had organized the Department of Circulating Exhibitions concerned solely with the preparation of exhibitions for travel throughout this country. The motiva!:ing force behind the program has been the Museum's desire to serve centers outside the NewYork area. As a major institution liOrking exclusively in the field of modern art, the Museum has a special educational responsibility. The Circulating Exhibitions Department has, therefore, tried to provide materisl of high quality in all the media I~ith which the Museumis concerned: psinting and sculpture , .' ~ as well as architecture and design, drawings and prints, and pho cog'rapby. Along with greater public demand for comprehensive exhibitions, the needs of smaller institutions, particularly colleges and universities has also grown over the years. To meet these needs the Circulating Exhf.bitions program has increasingly emphssized the preparation of exhibitions for smaller museums, colleges and univer- sities and the communities they serve, makh1g the ShO~1Savailable on a belOl~-cost basis. In such cases, rental fees cover part, but not all, of the costs of assemb- packing and insuring the exhibitions. The Museum assigns a subsid)' ling, preparing (more) ... '.. " to bridge the gap between the costs of exhibition and the income from rental fees. During the past 32 years, the Museumhas developed special techniques for pack- ing and shipping, installation and presentation of traveling exhibitions, setting precedents for these procedures for other institutions all over the world. A staff f: of 20, headed by ~laldoRasmussen, Executive Director of the Department of Circulating I 'I t Exhibitions, is responsible for all domestic circulating shows as well as those dis- I: tributed here and abroad under the auspices of the Internatinnal Council of The :~ MuseumofModern Art, MoMAExh_0766_MasterChecklist "I I I, ,1 ,!-, ****************************************** Photographs and additional information available from Elizabeth Shaw, Director, andLynnTraiger, Assistant Director, Department of Public Information, TheMuseum of ModernArt, 11 West 53 Street, NewYork, N, Y. 10019. CIrcle 5-8900. I i I, " I I i I .'/, " ,I : ;:/' >:: , ,'I , ,If ';r',":1' :'1 , ;1' ~eMuseum of Modern Art ~west 53 Street, New York, N,Y, 10019 Circle 5-8900 Cable, Modernart ! Ii/lilll ~ '"?"r , p (0 AMERICAN COLLAGES May 10 - July 25, 1965 1 Joseph Cornell: Americana. collage, 14 1/4 high x 11 1/4" (framed) . Lent by the artist. 2 Joseph Cornell: Circe. collage (tempera on composition MoMAExh_0766_MasterChecklist board), 12 1/2 high x 15 1/2" (framed). I Lent by the artist. I, 3 Joseph Cornell: Distance to the Moon. collage, 14 1/2 high x 11 1/2" (framed). Lent by the artist. 4 Joseph Cornell: Naiad. collage, 15 1/4 high x 12 3/8" (framed). Lent by the artist. 5, Joseph Cornell: L' Academie de St. Petersbourg. c. 1964. collage, 14 1/2 high x 11 1/2" (framed). Allan Stone Gallery, NewYork. 6 Joseph Cornell: Cassiopeia. c. 1964. collage, 12 1/2 high x 10 1/2 (framed). Allan Stone Gallery, NewYork. 7 Robert Goodnough Blue and Brown Forms. 1964. collage, 17 15/16 high x 21" (framed). Ti bor de Nagy Gallery, NewYork. r I - 2 - 8 Robert Goodnough: Multi-form. 1964. collage, 17 15/16 high x 21" (framed). Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NewYork. 9 Robert Goodnough: ~ed and Blue Forms.. 1964. collage, 17 15/16 high x 21~ (framed). MoMAExh_0766_MasterChecklist Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NewYork. >10 Robert Goodnough: Red Boat. 1964. collage, 17 15/16 high x 21" (framed). Collection Mr. Frank Picarello, New Jersey. ill Gene Hedge: Untitled #1. 1963. collage, 20 1/2 high x 17 l/S" (framed). Lent by the artist. [2 Gene Hedge: Untitled #2. 1964. collage, 22 7/8 high x 19 1/16" (framed). Lent by the artist. 3 Gene Hedge: Unti tIed #3. 1964. coLl.age, 19 5/16 high x16 1/4" (framed). Lent by the artist. I 4 Gene Hedge: Untitled #11. 1964. co l,lage , 32 5/8 high x 27 3/16" (framed) Lent by the artist. - 3 - 15 Angelo Ippolito: western Series #8. 1961. collage, 20 9/16 high x 30 9/16" (framed). Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NewYork. 16 Angelo Ippol1 to: western Series #12. 1961. collage, 20 5/8 high x 30 1/2" (framed). Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NewYork. MoMAExh_0766_MasterChecklist 17 Angelo Ippolito: western Series. 1961. collage, 30 3/4 high x 30 3/4" (framed) • .Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NewYork. Jess: The Better Dream House of Joe Dunn. 1959. book of 12 collages in 4 frames A, B, C, D. 3 - 16 11/16 high x 39 1/8" (framed) • 1 16 11/16 high x 35 5/S" (framed) • Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco. 19 Jess: Embarkation for Kythera. 1963. collage, 52 7/8 high x 42 7/8" (framed). Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco. Alex Katz: Unti tIed. (Clam Diggers) collage, 13 5/8 high x 16 5/13" (framed). Fischbach Gallery, New York. , 21 Alex Katz: Greenwood Lake, New Jersey. collage, 13 5/8 high x 16 5/16" (framed). The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. - 4 .. 2 Alex Katz: Twilight. collage, 13 7/8 high x 16 5/16" (framed). The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art', NewYork. 3 Alex Katz: Untitled. (Landscape with two figures). collage, 19 1/4 high x 22 3/16" (framed). Fischbach Gallery 1 New York. MoMAExh_0766_MasterChecklist 24 Alex Katz: Uoti tled. (The Studio). collage, 22 3/8 high x 27 3/8" (framed). Fischbach Gallery, New York. 25 Alex Katz: Two Figures on Raft. 1957. collage, 11 3/8 high x 14 1/8" (framed). Vincent Warren, New York. 26 Alex Katz: Three Figures on Horizon. 1959. collage, 20 3/8 high x 23 1/8" (framed). Fischbach Gallery 1 NewYork. 27 Nicholas Krushenick: Collage. 1962. collage - liqui tex on paper, 49 high x 38 7/8" (framed). The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection. 28 Nicholas Krushenick: Monaco. 1964. collage - liquitex on paper, 51 1/8 high x 39" (framed). i" Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles. Jt:, ====::----.--- ..-. - 5 - 29 Nicholas Krushenick: Untitled (May1964). 1964. collage- liquitex on paper, 45 1/8 high x 37 3/16" (framed). Collection Mr. Robert C. Graham, New York. 30 Nicholas Krushenick~ Collage. 1965. collage, 50 3/4 high x 44 3/4" (framed). Fischbach Gallery, NewYork. MoMAExh_0766_MasterChecklist High Wire. 1952. collage, 31 Alfred Leslie: 19 1/2 high x 13 3/4" (framed). Lent by the artist. Extra Margin. 1953. collage, 32 Alfred Leslie: 14 high x 13 1/2" (framed). Lent by the artist. Token Payment.