Treasures from Florida Private Collections

Claude Monet, Ferme Pres de Honfleur, 1864, oil on canvas, 15 ½” x 18 7/8.” Collection of Catherine and David A. Straz, Jr. Courtesy of the Orlando Museum of Art.

Through April 29, 2018

The Orlando Museum of Art brings a glimpse of Florida private collections. “State of Excellence” includes paintings by 17^th century Dutch masters, 19^th and 20^th century French and American Impressionists, as well as 20^th century European and American Modernists and Abstract Expressionists. Sculpture is represented with exceptional bronzes by Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle and Käthe Kollwitz. Decorative art includes examples of French Art Nouveau furniture and glass, American Arts and Crafts furniture, American Art pottery and early Steuben Glass. A special focus within the exhibition is historic photography. Selected from four extensive collections in the state, the 48 vintage photographs on view offer a mini survey of the medium from its early decades in the 1840s through the mid-20^th century. www.omart.org.