Current Exhibition

With a Lot of Help from Our Friends: 50 Years of Acquisitions Funded by the Friends of the Davison Art Center

Friday 30 March - Sunday 27 May 2012
Opening reception Thursday, 29 March, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), Sheet of Studies (with head of the artist), 1632, second state, etching. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1967.42.1 (photo: R. Lancefield).

Since the founding of the Friends of the Davison Art Center in 1962, the group has raised funds to purchase more than 900 works of art, dramatically expanding the Davison Art Center collection. This exhibition celebrates the FDAC's 50th anniversary with a selection of more than 70 prints and photographs by artists including Rembrandt, Manet, Heckel, Johns, Watkins, Stieglitz, and many more. All of the works on view were purchased through the generosity of, and fundraising by, members of the FDAC.

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Reception and gallery talk
Thursday 29 March, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Gallery talk, 5:30 p.m.

More 50th-anniversary FDAC events will take place this spring. Please visit the Friends of the Davison Art Center Events page to learn about more events at the Davison Art Center.

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Wesleyan also presents exhibitions at two other galleries, both near the DAC: the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery and the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies.