Oklahoma City, OK — The Oklahoma City Museum of Art hosted 32 exceptional works in five galleries through August 13, 2006.  Monet to de Kooning: Selections from the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, were integrated into three galleries on the second and third floor in addition to two complete galleries on the second floor.  The exhibition included paintings by Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Willem de Kooning, and Lee Krasner as well as sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol, and Claes Oldenburg.

Monet to de Kooning followed a visit by David Mickenburg, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center director and a former director of the Oklahoma Museum of Art in the mid-1980s.   Impressed by the new Museum, Mickenburg offered to loan the 32 key works while the Davis Museum undergoes renovations and upgrades to its exhibition areas.  Said Executive Director Carolyn Hill.  “We’re happy he’s given us this terrific opportunity and look forward to a reunion.”

The works from the Davis Museum and Cultural Center’s collection offer a broad range of European and American styles.  “This collection brings together works which mark the emergence and development of the modernist movement,” said Chief Curator Hardy George.  “It offers a whole range of important works from the poetic semi-abstractions of Claude Monet, through the Cubist developments associated with Fernand Léger and Sonia Delaunay-Terk, to the Abstract Expressionist work of Willem de Kooning.  There are also later Minimalist works by Agnes Martin and Donald Judd and Pop sculptures of Andy Warhol.  This collection presents the unique opportunity to experience visually the works of these monumental painters and sculptors.”

David Mickenburg has been invited to present a lecture and slideshow on the works in Monet to de Kooning as well as other works in the Davis Museum and Cultural Center.

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