The Chrysler Museum of Art’s Building a Legacy: Chrysler Collects for the Future exhibition, on view November 19 through March 6, 2022, features a range of recent and promised gifts to the museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Chrysler’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of Walter P. Chrysler Jr.’s transformative gift of art to the City of Norfolk.
Romare Bearden (1911-1988), Pepper Jelly Lady, 1980. Lithograph. Promised Gift from the Collection of John and Audrey Settle. ART © Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, NY.
Among these is a 1980 lithograph by Romare Bearden titled Pepper Jelly Lady, a promised gift from the Collection of John and Aubrey Settle. Bearden’s print draws upon the artist’s childhood memories of life in North Carolina in the early 20th century. It depicts a scene of the rural South with an African American woman dressed in bold patterns.
“Building a Legacy presents the ongoing impact of Chrysler’s generosity with objects from modern-day art collectors who have committed to broadening the scope of the museum’s collection,” says Corey Piper, the Chrysler Museum’s Brock curator of American art and curator of the exhibition.
Another piece is a circa 1917 charcoal by George Bellows, gifted to the Chrysler Museum of Art in 2018 by Carter Grandy Bernert in honor of Jeff Harrison, chief curator emeritus of the Chrysler Museum of Art. —
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