A small work by Frida Kahlo (Mexico, July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954) in the exhibition Mexican Modernity: 20th Century Paintings from the Zapanta Collection encapsulates so much meaning, and yet it looks so simple that it is easy to understate its historical significance. The two-sided drawing Por la Paz (For Peace) created in 1952…
For decades, the Hamptons have been a prime spot for summer fun and a location from which artists draw endless inspiration. The New York-based artist Arne Besser (1935-2012) first gained recognition in the art world for his Photorealist paintings of…
The museum is an ever-evolving resource with boundless opportunities in art learning! With a collection of around 5,600 objects ranging from antiquity to contemporary, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum offers intimate, personalized, and transformative encounters in art learning for disparate…
This post was written in 2019 and has been edited to update pertinent information. Rina Banerjee’s Her captivity was once someone’s treasure… combines historical objects (a Victorian birdcage, a 19th-century New England table) with elements both natural (gourds, feathers, shells,…
By MacKenzie Moon Ryan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History and Gisela Carbonell, Ph.D., Curator. Last fall, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum worked closely with Dr. MacKenzie Moon Ryan, Assistant Professor of Art History at Rollins, and her ARH 404…
I read somewhere that collections are what museums are; exhibitions, what they do. This makes perfect sense, of course. Except for the comparatively rare kunsthalle (a German word roughly translated to “art gallery” but used in English to mean non-collecting…
The exhibition Fake News? Some Artistic Responses covers a selection of American artists’ reaction to the world of mass media from the early 20th century to the present day. A phrase all too familiar in our everyday lives and coined…
Art historian Özlem Gülin Dağoğlu first connected with the Cornell Fine Arts Museum in 2011 after inquiring into the painting Portrait of Thomas Edison, the Thinker by Mihri Rasim. The painting was gifted to Hamilton Holt and Rollins College in…
Dr. Ena Heller, Bruce A. Beal Director at Cornell Fine Arts Museum, sits down with Tom Jelneck from On Target Digital Marketing for a podcast about overcoming obstacles and achieving great things. Tune in to hear her remarkable story about…
On January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the State of the Union Address to Congress amid a highly charged international political climate. Commonly known as the Four Freedoms speech, the address became a statement to the core values…
One of the paintings in our current exhibition, Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art , depicts an episode from the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, as recounted in the biblical book of Genesis.…
One of the rarest paintings in the Cornell Fine Arts Museum’s collection is Lavinia Fontana’s Dead Christ with Symbols of the Passion. Dated 1581, It is one of only 32 signed and dated (or datable) works by the artist. Lavinia…
How do paintings from an art-filled, Ohio home become the core of the only European Old Masters museum collection in the Orlando area? The story began in 1870. Family patriarch, Francis Eunoch Myers, arrived in Ashland, OH to work as…
Communities are defined by people: families, friends, neighbors, and colleagues who share a way of life, a place to live, to work, or to enjoy common interests. We live in a community and share our lives, thoughts, and hopes with…
