Rose Art Museum ...contemporary art at it's best !

Another Adventure on Sunday afternoon with Meetup friends at the Rose Art Museum, on the campus of

Brandeis University - Waltham MA.

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(informational text from The Boston Globe, Critic's Notebook: by Sebastian Smee - Globe staff  11-6-11)

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    The story of the Rose Art Museum is one of the most remarkable in the history of university art museums.

Founded in 1961, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University is an educational and cultural institution dedicated to collecting, preserving and exhibiting the finest of modern and contemporary art.

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The programs and the Rose adhere to the overall mission of the university, embracing its values of academic excellence, social justice and freedom of expression.

                 This year, the Rose celebrates its 50th anniversary with three exciting exhibitions that showcase the museum's renowned permanent collection and the newly renovated Gerald S. and Sandra Fineberg Gallery.

                     *                             Within five years of its opening in 1961, the Rose Art Museum housed one of the most daring contemporary art collections at a university.  This exhibition celebrates the museum's formative period by displaying paintings, sculptures and
prints created during 1961-1965.

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Key works by Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, Claes Oldenburg, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg,  Andy Warhol and Marisol are displayed in newly renovated spaces.

Ellsworth Kelly, "Blue White," 1962

The Rose is offering a superb opportunity to get back to looking at art with three new shows celebrating the 50th anniversary of the museum's founding.   

Each of the three 50th-anniversary shows tells a chapter in the collection's formation.

The first, and the most triumphant, focuses on a few crucial years in the early 1960's when the Rose's first director acquired the masterpieces for which the Rose is best know today.

The early '60s were a stupendously fertile time in American art.

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"...the Rose is a resource for the public. Like the priceless art collections of Harvard, Yale, Smith College, and Williams College, the Rose's collection inspires envy all over the world.  Its quality makes it a destination for the public at large, and for scholars, curators, and students not just from Brandeis but from other schools, too".

(Sebastian Smee can be reached at ssmee@globe.com )

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And look who was waiting for me when I got home !