Event Details (Posted: October 24, 2008):

THE LEEPA-RATTNER MUSEUM OF ART

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The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art invites you to attend an opening reception for Color Woodblock Prints from the Collection of the Two Red Roses Foundation and Works on Paper by Henry McBride from the Henry McBride Foundation.
The opening will be held Saturday, November 1, 2008 from 7 - 9 p.m. in the Museum.
Hors d’oeuvres accompanied by wine and soft drinks will be served. The event is free to members and $10 for guests, which may be applied to a museum membership purchased during the evening.
RSVP by Wednesday, October 29, 2008, (727) 712-5229.

Color Woodblock Prints is an exhibition of color woodblock prints created in the early decades of the 20th century. A dozen artists, including Americans Gustave Baumann, Arthur Wesley Dow, Frances Gearhart, Edna Boies Hopkins and Margaret Jordan Patterson, as well as F. Morley Fletcher of England and Austrian secessionist Max Kurzweil, will be represented by the prints and two books. The medium, inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e prints, allowed artists to expand their creativity with color theory, composition and technique.

Montgomery, the guest curator for Color Woodblock Prints, an independent decorative arts scholar, holds a doctorate in American and New England Studies from Boston University and was guest curator of The American Arts & Crafts Home 1900-1915 exhibition hosted at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art in 2006.

The Two Red Roses Foundation is a non-profit educational institution dedicated to promoting the American Arts & Crafts movement, an effort to reform the design and production of furniture, ceramics, metalwork and other decorative arts in the early 1900s. An accompanying catalog, Color Woodblock Prints: Selections from the Two Red Roses Foundation, features works from this exhibition and will be available in the Museum Store.

Works on Paper by Henry McBride is an exhibition on loan from the Henry McBride Foundation and includes 31 works on paper created by McBride in the late 19th century, and one work by Marcel Duchamp from McBride’s personal collection of avant-garde art. The Henry McBride Foundation, formed in 2001, honors noted American art spokesman Henry McBride (1867-1962), a premier critic of the modernist movement. His book, Henry McBride, the Flow of Art is available in the Museum Store.
Both exhibitions will close on Jan 4, 2009.

The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art is located just west of U.S. Highway 19 at 600 Klosterman Road, on the Tarpon Springs Campus of St. Petersburg College. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, with extended hours until 9 p.m. on Thursday. Sunday hours are from 1-5 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and free to children and students with ID. Sunday, admission is free and docent tours are offered at 2 p.m. The museum is closed on Mondays and major holidays. Please call ahead for information or directions (727) 712-5762.