Joseph Stella, images displays planned for Norton Museum

The Norton Museum of Artwork will host the debut in Oct of a major new exhibition focusing on mother nature-themed get the job done by the 20th-century American modernist Joseph Stella, the museum announced earlier this month.  

Also planned in October is an show of fashion and avenue photography from the holdings of the Swiss collector Nicola Erni, who opened a non-public museum in Steinhausen, Switzerland, in 2013 to showcase the many artworks she has amassed above the earlier two many years.  

A Personal Watch on High Manner and Avenue Design: Photographs from the Nicola Erni Assortment, 1930s to Now, opens Oct. 8 and runs via Feb. 12. Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature, opens Oct. 15 and is on view until Jan. 15. 

Norton CEO Ghislain d’Humières reported in a prepared assertion that the two fall exhibits “provide perception into key artistic actions of the 20th century, and demonstrate the Norton’s commitment to bringing significant, major exhibitions spanning various genres to Palm Beach and the area.” 

Stella (1877-1946), who emigrated from southern Italy to the United States as a teenager in 1896, is ideal-recognised for his canvases of New York City, which were being inspired by the Futurist motion in his native Italy. That intellectual motion glorified the vigor, power and violence of the present day industrial age, and Stella’s vibrant, dramatically lit paintings of Coney Island and the Brooklyn Bridge have turn out to be visible icons of modernism. 

But Stella also was deeply fascinated in plant and animal daily life, and Visionary Character capabilities 90 paintings and operates on paper which includes renderings of waterlilies, tropical flowers and swans, as properly as religious-themed is effective these types of as Purissima (1927), a painting of the Virgin Mary that echoes early Christian artwork.  

“The Stella exhibition is the initial in-depth exploration into the artist’s fascination with the all-natural earth,” d’Humières said. Curated by the Significant Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pa., the exhibit will travel to individuals two museums following its debut at the Norton. 

The Erni exhibit will characteristic nearly 300 functions by much more than 100 different artists, which include important photographers these as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman and Bill Cunningham. The show traces the heritage of trend photography from the early 20th century to the 1980s, when photographers seemed outside the house classic boundaries to check out modifications in road manner model. Erni began assembling her assortment in the 1990s, concentrating initial on the 1960s and 1970s photographs that documented that era’s jet-set celeb tradition. 

Some of the performs in the exhibit will be displayed by means of thematic information, as the clearly show examines how the pics symbolize strategies of “fantasy, romanticism and provocation,” Norton officers said. 

 “The Nicola Erni Assortment is a globally celebrated selection that brings jointly the divergent worlds of style and avenue images, checking out glamor and design by the lens of some of the greatest photographers of the last century,” d’Humières claimed. 

Also on view this fall is an exhibition of the get the job done of Moroccan photographer Lalla Essaydi. Her display, Un/veiled, functions portraits of Arab women of all ages adorned by the artist with henna calligraphy. (July 23-Nov. 6). Meanwhile, the African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner is the topic of Intimate Shots (Aug. 20-March 12), an show of 4 works like Christ at the Property of Mary (1937), just lately obtained by the Norton. 

On perspective from Sept. 10 to Jan. 15 is Autumn Mountains and the Gentle of the Harvest Moon, 4 paintings by Chinese artists offering their interpretations of the landscape tradition in Chinese art. The exhibit features two contemporary artists as very well as the 18th-century artist Zhang Yuan, and the 19th-century painter Zhou Kai. 

The Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S. Dixie Freeway in West Palm Seaside, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. The museum is shut Wednesdays and vacations. Standard admission is $18, $15 for seniors, and $5 for pupils with legitimate ID.  

Contact 561-832-5196 or visit www.norton.org for more facts.