Donors - the Flint Institute of Arts

Andy Warhol, A to Z:
A Retrospective of the
Work of the Master of
Pop Art
9/24/05 – 12/31/05
Sponsored by Community Foundation
of Greater Flint, Friends of Modern
Art, and Founders Society
Over the course of his career,
Andy Warhol erased the
distinctions between fine art
and popular culture, often
employing mass-production
techniques to create works
which cause us to think
about the nature of art and
contemporary society. This
special exhibition inaugurated
the newly renovated Flint
Institute of Arts with over
50 paintings, drawings,
photographs, prints and films
from The Andy Warhol Museum
in Pittsburgh by one of the most
influential American artists of
the twentieth century.
Andy Warhol
American, 1930–1987
Self-Portrait
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas,
1986
40 x 40 x 1 3/8 in.
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh;
Founding Collection, Contribution
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts, Inc.
Larry Dinkin: Painting
to Silkscreen, an
Interpretive Process
11/26/05 – 1/22/06
Sponsored by Bank One
Larry Dinkin has been a
painter for more than thirtyfive
years. His naturalistic
vistas and sensitive abstract
configurations of unique
texture and color create
movement and spatial
tensions. Dinkin’s paintings
represent imaginary
relationships between the mind
and reality in an ongoing quest
for expression without rules. This
exhibition featured 10 large
scale virtuoso prints, and 6
paintings, on which the prints
are based.
Larry Dinkin
American, b. 1943
Landscape of Structure from
a Dream
color screen print on paper, 1999
42 x 46 inches
Gift of Estelle and Martin Karlin,
2003.16
American Perspectives:
Highlights of Works by
African American Artists
from the Collection of
the FIA
1/28/06 – 4/2/06
Sponsored by Bank One
In honor of African American
History Month, the Flint Institute
of Arts paid homage to the
exceptional vision and talent
of African American artists
represented in the permanent
collection. This special
exhibition featured 20 works of
art by acclaimed American
artists, including Romare
Bearden, Jacob Lawrence,
Charles White, Hughie Lee
Smith, Melvin Edwards, Walter
Williams, and Kara Walker.
Kara Walker
American, b. 1969
Keys to the Coop
linocut on paper, 1997
46 x 60 inches
Museum purchase, 2005.19
To Be, or Not to Be:
Four Hunderd Years of
Vanitas Painting
2/4/06 – 4/2/06
Sponsored by Charles Stewart Mott
Foundation, Citizens Bank Wealth
Management, Dietrich Foundation, and
Founders Society
This exhibition presented
35 works representing the
vanitas genre. Each work of
art emphasized the visual
and philosophical content of
vanitas as a meditative image
that encodes the interplay of
morality and excess. Themes
of transience, the ephemeral
nature of beauty, and the
fragility of human life were
addressed in these visually
powerful works. Paintings from
collections across the country
were included in this diverse
exhibition, with works ranging
in date from the 17th to the
20th century by artists from
France, Germany, Flanders,
the Netherlands, Italy and the
United States.
Adriaen van Utrecht
Flemish, 1599–1652
Vanitas Still Life with a Bouquet and
a Skull
oil on canvas, 1643
26 1/2 x 34 inches
The Collection of Richard Harris
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