May 29, 2012 - September 9, 2012

Deep Roots, Bold Visions: Self-Taught Artists of Alachua County is an original exhibition organized by the Harn Museum of Art. It will present paintings, sculptures and a variety of mixed media works by self-taught artists, who work outside mainstream art traditions. As is characteristic of the entire southern region of the country, north central Florida is home to numerous outstanding self-taught artists. This exhibition celebrates in particular; artists active in Gainesville and Alachua County and is drawn exclusively from private collections in the same area. Some of the artists featured are still being discovered even in Alachua County, whereas others, including Jesse Aaron, Eddy Mumma and Alyne Harris, are nationally recognized and are represented in private collections and museums beyond the southeast. The exhibition will include approximately 60 works by eight artists, five of whom are still living and making art in Alachua County.

June 19, 2012 - March 10, 2013

This installation, drawn from the Harn’s permanent collection, displays a selection of recently acquired photographs by Anne Noggle. An acclaimed artist whose work is included in many public and private collections, Anne Noggle became a professional photographer at age 40, after serving as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) and as a captain in the US Air Force during WWII. Through self-portraits and photographs of family and friends, Noggle’s work explores female vitality, aging and beauty with an honest, respectful and sometimes humorous view.

Souvenirs of Modern Asia features a remarkable set of 55 woodcuts by French artist Paul Jacoulet (1896-1960) who lived and worked in Japan most of his life. These colorful and masterfully printed woodcuts were inspired by Jacoulet’s extensive travels in China, Japan, Korea and the South Pacific and demonstrate a synthesis of traditional Japanese printing techniques with modern European aesthetics. The exhibition provides an opportunity to celebrate recent gifts of prints from the collections of Linda and Eugene Finkin and Norma and William Roth. The exhibition also includes a unique selection of archival materials, such as letters, brochures and photographs, related to the artist. These were gifted to the museum by Eugene Finkin whose mother, Dorothy Finkin, was Jacoulet’s New York dealer.

Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt is comprised of 95 prints by 19 artists from the Currier Museum of Art's 16th and 17th century-Netherlandish holdings, including Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt van Rijn, Esaias van de Velde and Jacob van Ruisdael, among others.

This exhibition will feature extraordinary, and at the time, ground breaking images of landscape, genre and maritime subjects, and a refashioning of portraiture and biblical and mythological narratives. Additional works will include about 40 European prints drawn from the Harn collection. These prints are dated between c. 1493 and 1956 and represent about 20 artists from England, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy and Spain.