Two Iowa Regent universities are providing Iowans in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area—and all who travel there— with an opportunity to see and enjoy the works of European and American artists such as Francis Seymour Haden and Thomas Moran.
The exhibition loan is part of the Legacies for Iowa: A University of Iowa Museum of Art Collections Sharing Program, which is supported exclusively by The Matthew Bucksbaum Family.The University of Iowa Museum of Art is sharing The Power of Line: Prints of the European and American Etching Revival from the University of Iowa Museum of Art with the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art. The exhibition opens Monday, Sept. 30 and continues through Monday, Dec. 2.
“We are immensely grateful to the Bucksbaum family for making it possible to expand this wonderful program to more institutions across the state of Iowa,” says UIMA Director Sean O’Harrow. “We are all excited about the UNI Gallery of Art’s participation in the initiative, and the resulting relationship with their staff, students, and the Waterloo/Cedar Falls public has been beneficial to both universities and regions.”
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The Power of Line is comprised of 43 prints, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s 1861 etching “The Forge” and Stephen Parrish’s etching “Fish Houses, Rocky Neck,” which is the only known impression of the etching. The works were donated in 2006 by Debra Gabrielson Lee and her late husband J. Thomas Lee. The exhibition presents many fine examples of late 19th and early 20th century technical experimentation, intellectual inquiry and aesthetic expression, including maritime and landscape subjects and scenes of everyday life.
The UIMA is truly becoming the “Museum for the People of Iowa” by means of the Legacies collections-sharing initiative. The program provides works of art from the UIMA’s 14,000-object collection to museums and art centers across the state that meet approved standards.
Just as important, the program makes viable connections for engagement between UI faculty, staff, and students as well as the audiences of the borrowing sites, furthering the UI's mission of education and research in service to the people of Iowa.
Current Legacies exhibits can be seen at the African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids and at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, which is temporarily housing the UIMA collection following the Flood of 2008. The flood rendered unusable the former UIMA building on the Iowa City campus.
Previous Legacies exhibits were at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, and Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids.
The UNI Gallery of Art is located in Room 104 of the Kamerick Art Building in Cedar Falls.