Picture Is the Window: Lynn Gumpert & Lisa Corrin on Abby Grey
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, March 4th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Consisting of more than 700 artworks, the Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art at New York University comprises the largest institutional holdings of Iranian, Turkish and Indian modern art in any American university museum. This unparalleled historical resource was amassed by Abby Weed Grey (1902-1983), a self-described “dyed-in-the-wool Midwesterner” from St. Paul, Minnesota. In the 1960s and early ’70s, when few other American collectors were attuned to art being made in the Middle East and Asia, Grey traveled extensively in these regions, steadily acquiring works by contemporary local artists. Throughout her life, Grey’s collecting was guided by a belief in the power of art to stimulate intercultural dialogue.
Join Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Gallery at NYU and Lisa Corrin, Director of the Block Museum of Art, for a conversation on this intrepid woman collector and the way that her legacy might inform global directions for contemporary collectors.
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