The developer Jonathan “Jack” Frost has donated a group of practically 700 prints to the Norton Museum of Artwork in West Palm Seaside, Florida. The present is a significant windfall for the Norton’s assortment of European artwork and can improve its assortment of prints by practically 40%.
The gifted works span half a millennium, from a 1970 color etching by Henry Moore to Albrecht Dürer’s woodcut print Die Gefangennahme Christi (The Taking of Christ, 1509-11). Additionally included within the present are portraits by Anthony van Dyck and Rembrandt van Rijn from the 1630s, Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s 1748 engraving Chiesa di S. Andrea della Valle, Édouard Manet’s Jeanne (often known as Le Printemps, spring, 1882), Paul Gauguin’s Baigneuses Bretonnes (Breton Bathers, 1889) and Hannah Höch’s 1912 linocut Straße in Berlin (Road in Berlin). A number of 75 works from the present will go on view later this month in The Paper Path: 500 Years of Prints from the Jonathan “Jack” Frost Assortment (20 April-11 August).
Frost has been concerned with the Norton for greater than 30 years. Appropriately, given his background in actual property and building, he served on its Constructing and Grounds Committee for the higher a part of a decade starting within the early 2000s. (In 2019, the Norton accomplished a $100m growth.)
“I’ve lengthy felt that the museum could be the right place for my assortment. It is sort of a house away from house,” Frost mentioned in an announcement. He’ll talk about his accumulating journey throughout a public occasion on the museum on 26 April.
“All through the years, Jack has rigorously curated his assortment to hint the historical past of printmaking in Europe and America, that includes each well- and little-known masters,” the museum’s director and chief government, Ghislain d’Humières, mentioned in an announcement. “We’re grateful to Jack Frost for this unbelievable promised present that fills gaps within the Norton’s assortment of works on paper and enormously expands our holdings of European and American works, including selection and breadth.”