THE ART OF FINE DINING: BEAUTIFUL TABLE SETTINGS
Returns for its seventh year, eighteen noted Palm Beach hostesses created art inspired table settings

West Palm Beach, FL – The Norton Museum of Art hosted an elegant preview party to celebrate the opening of its seventh annual The Art of Fine Dining: Beautiful Table Settings fundraiser on Thursday, April 6. More



NORTON MUSEUM OF ART APPOINTS
Alexia Davis
Public Relations Manager

(West Palm Beach, FL) The Norton Museum of Art is pleased to announce the appointment of Alexia Davis to the position of Public Relations Manager. More



Norton Museum Celebrates 2006 as the Year of the Dog
Signs of Time: The Twelve Animals of the Lunar Calendar
On view March 8 – June 30, 2006

West Palm Beach, FL – In celebration of 2006 as the Year of the Dog, the Maurer Family Gallery at the Norton Museum of Art features a special installation entitled Signs of Time: The Twelve Animals of the Lunar Calendar on view March 8 – June 30, 2006.  More



Paris in Photographs
New exhibition focuses on French Photography between 1898 - 1988
March 4 - May 21, 2006

West Palm Beach, FL – Drawn from the holdings of the Norton Museum's collection of photography, Paris In Photographs is an exhibition that focuses on the travels of French, American, and German artists between 1898 - 1988. More



The Norton Museum of Art Showcases The Art of Quilting
Elements From the Front Range Contemporary Quilters &
Art of the Needle: Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelburne Museum

West Palm Beach, FL – The Norton Museum of Art will present two fascinating and highly contrasting special exhibitions on the art form of quilting this summer. More

Earthen Images: Ceramics from Ancient America
Through December 31, 2005

West Palm Beach, FL-- Earthen Images: Ceramics from Ancient America is a new exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art, featuring 17 ceramic pieces from the Norton’s pre-Columbian collection. The exhibition will be on view in the Mizner Gallery through December 31. Admission is included in general museum admission. More



Matisse in Transition: Around Laurette
January 28–April 16, 2006

The Norton Museum of Art and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum collaborate in the search for Laurette–Matisse's mysterious model who inspired a series of forty portraits

Co-organized by the Norton Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Matisse in Transition: Around Laurette is the first in-depth examination of this fascinating period of the artist's career—1916 to 1919—when he began to paint in series. More



French Impressionism and Boston:
Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts
November 19, 2005–March 5, 2006

Norton Museum of Art only U.S. venue for international exhibition featuring fifty-three
masterworks from the world-renowned collections of the MFA Boston

This exceptional exhibition featuring fifty-three masterworks from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston explores the influence of the French Impressionist painters on Boston’s artists and collectors during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More



Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence
October 1– December 31, 2005

Norton Museum of Art co-organizes first North American survey devoted to the celebrated German artist

Co-organized by the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, and the Norton Museum of Art, Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence, is the first North American survey exhibition devoted to this celebrated German artist. More

Deborah Butterfield: Horses
September 17–December 11, 2005

Deborah Butterfield: Horses, features twelve evocative sculptures of horses in bronze, steel, and mixed media by the internationally acclaimed Montana sculptor. On view at the Norton Museum of Art from September 17 through December 11, 2005, most of the pieces are from Deborah Butterfield’s personal collection and have rarely been seen by the public. More



ART IN BLOOM: WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
From Braque to Warhol–the Norton’s new exhibition features flowers in all their beauty
Now through July 17, 2005

Art in Bloom: Works from the Permanent Collection is a newly opened dossier exhibition in the Norton Museum of Art’s Docter Gallery. This charming selection of 12 works from the permanent collection includes paintings, drawings, watercolors, and prints. Selected by Curatorial Assistant Lisa Heard, some of the works will be little known or even totally unknown to many visitors, not having been on view previously. There are some delightful surprises, such as Francis Chapin's stunning watercolor of a floral bouquet, and the large oil painting by Jean de Botton which is of remarkably good quality; plus works by better known 20th-century masters such as George Braques, Joseph Stella, and Andy Warhol. Lesser known names incude Hayley Lever, and Scot Rory McEwen. The exhibition is adjacent to the Museum’s McGraw Gallery where visitors will discover familiar floral still lifes by Matisse, Chagall, and Beckmann. More



NORTON MUSEUM OF ART ANNOUNCES YEAR-ROUND SCHEDULE
OF SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS

Deborah Butterfield, Candida Höfer, and Betye Saar feature in monographic exhibitions; French Impressionism and Boston: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts
highlight of the winter season

West Palm Beach, FL– The Norton Museum of Art has announced a year round, highly diverse schedule of special exhibitions for the coming year. Three major living artists, Deborah Butterfield, Candida Höfer, and Betye Saar will have monographic exhibitions. Two other special exhibitions are organized by the Norton Museum of Art: Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence, and Matisse in Transition: 1916 to 1919 which is being co-organized with the Guggenheim Museum. More

SITE SEEING: PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCURSIONS IN TOURISM
June 4– September 4, 2005

Visually entertaining exhibition takes visitors on a journey to far away places

West Palm Beach, FL–This visually engaging and highly entertaining exhibition explores the relationship between tourism, photography and motion pictures. On view at the Norton Museum of Art from June 4 through September 4, 2005, Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism features more than 250 photographs and fascinating artifacts, including early travel photography from the 1840s, illustrated books and albums, stereoscopes and stereographs, tourist guides, postcards, souvenirs, and contemporary works of art, which literally take the visitor on a journey to far away places. More

FOCUS ON: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY
March 5 – June 5, 2005

29 contemporary photographs acquired during the past five years go on view for the first time

West Palm Beach, FL–The second in an ongoing series of photographic exhibitions that focus on the Museum’s permanent collection, this installation highlights 29 contemporary photographs acquired during the past five years all on view for the first time. Oliver Boberg, Sarah Jones, Nikki S. Lee, Loretta Lux, Mark Mann, María Martinez-Cañas and Shizuka Yokomizo are just a few of the artists featured. Among the recurring themes that emerge from this selection are portraiture, domestic narratives and experimental practices. Whether realized in color or in black and white, derived from existing, constructed or digitally enhanced realities, or conceived as a single image or as part of a larger series each of the 29 works in this exhibition provides insight into contemporary artists’ fascination with the photographic process as a means of making their visions real. Many of the works have been purchased with funds generated by the Museum’s Photography Committee and by its members. Several of the artists featured in Focus on: New Photography will have work included in Maximum Exposure, the Norton’s inaugural Photography Auction on Saturday, April 9, 2005. More



MUSEUM PRESENTS RARE SPANISH ROYAL TREASURES COLLECTED
DURING SPAIN’S GOLDEN AGE

SPAIN IN THE AGE OF EXPLORATION 1492–1819

Norton Museum of Art only East Coast venue for historic exhibition
Now through May 1, 2005

West Palm Beach, FL– Spain in the Age of Exploration 1492–1819, featuring masterpieces from the collections of the Patrimonio Nacional of Spain, is on view at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, through May 1, 2005. The Norton is the only east coast venue for this spectacular exhibition of 130 objects, many leaving Spain for the first time, including masterworks by artists such as Bosch, Titian, El Greco, Velázquez, and Goya, among others. Also included are sculptures, Bernini’s great Crucifix from the Escorial, decorative arts, armor, tapestries, scientific instruments, early maps, manuscripts and books, including a rare 1494 edition of Columbus’s First Report of his voyage to America. More



THE STIEGLITZ CIRCLE AT THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN
Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, and Alfred Stieglitz

February 19–May 8, 2005

West Palm Beach, FL–The Stieglitz Circle at The Phillips Collection: In The American Grain is drawn from the Phillips Collection's permanent holdings, and includes more than forty paintings by American Modernists Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. On view at the Norton Museum of Art from February 19 through May 8, 2005, this stunning exhibition explores not only the works of these innovative modern artists, but also their relationships with gallerist Alfred Stieglitz and collector Duncan Phillips. The members of "Stieglitz’s Circle" were frequently inspired by America's distinctive landscape, and depicted its endless variety in bold forms and vivid colors. Also on view during this exhibition will be complementary paintings from the Norton’s permanent collection, two each by Dove and O’Keeffe, and one each by Hartley and Marin. Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Senior Curator of Art, The Phillips Collection will give an exhibition lecture on February 20 at 3:00 p.m. More