A SHARED VISION SELECTIONS FROM THE RUDOLPH-BLUME COLLECTION BRADBURY ART MUSEUM OCTOBER 18 - DECEMBER 8, 2017 A Shared Vision, features selections from Exposure to art at an early age infuenced shown in a separate gallery. For example the diverse and dynamic art collection the lives of both collectors. Their passion Martin Puryear’s Untitled (Black Head), of Sean Rudolph and Brad Blume. for the arts grew and developed through Shirin Neshat’s Woman in a Tree and Assembled over the past three decades, the years and extends to a love for theater Tom Friedman’s Untitled (Dollar Bill) are this signifcant Houston-based collection and food, as well as tennis, which they included in the people/portrait section. includes some of the most important see as another art form. These disparate John Baldessari’s Two Hands (With artists of our day. The work on view interests are all essential to their unique Distant Figure) and Takashi Murakami’s at Bradbury Art Museum represents a vision and have played an integral role in And Then (Blue) are represented in the fraction of the paintings, drawings, prints shaping the work they have amassed. gallery containing images of creatures. and sculpture that comprise the Rudolph- Their collection humbly began with no Blume’s advice is to, “Collect what you Blume Collection. particular direction in mind. They acquired love -- don’t just collect because someone their frst few works in 1994, one of which The artists in their collection read like a is a famous artist or you think the work will was Peaches by Jacob Collins. At that “Who’s Who” of the contemporary art one day be valuable. Collect because you point they had to buy it in installments, world. The internationally-renowned Louise love the work! Live with art and have it but once it was home they knew they Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Jim inspire you daily.” would purchase other still life paintings. Dine, Damien Hirst, Ellsworth Kelly, Claes A Shared Vision marks the frst time this The fgure and industrial scenes were two Oldenburg, Julian Schnabel, Richard outstanding collection has been exhibited other early subjects for which they began Serra, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol outside the confnes of the collectors’ to search. are all represented. The Rudolph-Blume residence in Houston. Although but a Collection also embraces its roots Visits to private collections such as portion of their vision is on view, the far and features numerous Houston and Dominique de Menil’s River Oaks home ranging nature of the work speaks to Texas-based artists including Kenneth in Houston and Olga Hirshhorn’s tiny the power of art to inspire and provide Beasley, Michael Ray Charles, Mark carriage house called the “Mouse House” meaning. It has transformed their lives and Flood, Francesca Fuchs and Trenton in Washington D.C. infuenced Rudolph with this exhibition they have provided the Doyle Hancock. and Blume at an early stage. Their same opportunity for others. Bradbury interaction with these and other art lovers Six thematic groupings were chosen Art Museum is honored by this privilege along with their extensive travels to major for this exhibition: people and portraits, and would like to thank Brad Blume for his art cities like New York, London and Paris abstraction, transportation, cityscapes generous spirit. reinforced their dedication to the visual home, and creatures. The selected works arts and inspired their desire for collecting. are arranged by subject matter, each A Shared Vision is dedicated to Sean Rudolph. Adam Lowenbein, Queen, acrylic on photograph, 34 x 28 inches .