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Aug 8, 2019 · After participating in groundbreaking and ribbon-cutting festivities Thursday at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., soaked ...
- Baker/Pisano Collection
- Simon & Rosemary Chen Family Collection
- Joseph E. Davies Collection
- Janice and Jean-Pierre Golay Collection
- Vernon Hall Collection of Medals
- Alexander and Henrietta W. Hollaender Collection
- Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection
- Barbara Mackey Kaerwer Collection
- Samuel H. Kress Collection
- Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection
The Baker/Pisano Collection represents the life work of Fred Baker and his late partner, Ronald Pisano. Mr. Baker graduated from UW—Madison in 1959. He began donating items from his collection of American artworks from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the Chazen Museum of Art (the then Elvehjem) in the 1970s. The collection includes early...
The permanent collection of Chinese art has been greatly expanded thanks to Simon K. Chen, a UW alum, and Rosemary Ho Chen. Their gift of more than 100 works includes Chinese calligraphy, painting, woodblock prints, and rubbings, dating from 1692 to 1996. Important works include paintings by early Qing artists Zhu Da and Yu Zhiding, and by Republic...
Alumnus Joseph E. Davies avidly collected paintings illustrating contemporary life and the ideals of Soviet socialism while in Russia as the American ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. In 1937 he donated 89 works to his alma mater, including Red Army in the Don Basin by Pavel Petrovich Sokolov-Skalya; The Cable Factoryby Nikolai Alex...
Janice and Jean-Pierre Golay became involved in the artistic community of Lausanne, Switzerland in the early 1980s. They subsequently moved to Madison—where they originally met—in 1988, bringing their growing collection as well as their dedication to art. In addition to works by Swiss artists like Ernst Häusermann, Armande Oswald, and Jacqueline Oy...
Vernon Hall was a professor of comparative literature at UW–Madison from 1964 to 1980. During the 1970s he donated just over 300 portrait medals dating from the 15th to 20th centuries, with Renaissance and baroque medals comprising the strength of the collection. Notable Italian medals include contemporary casts of medals by Pisanello, whose subjec...
Alumnus Alexander Hollaender and his wife, Henrietta, collected paintings, sculpture, and works on paper for more than 50 years. They focused on America, Europe, and South and Central America art from the 1950s to the 1970s, and donated their collection gradually between 1979 and 1992. The Hollaender Collection includes representative works by CoBr...
Since the early 1980s, Stephen and Pamela Hootkin have been collecting contemporary ceramics and ceramic sculpture. While they began collecting ceramic vessels, by the end of the decade they moved toward an edgier kind of work, with narrative content and strong psychological and existential overtones. Along the way, they befriended many of the arti...
Barbara Mackey Kaerwer (1921–2016) was an art historian, lecturer, and collector from Beloit, Wisconsin who received her undergraduate degree from UW—Madison. During her life, she collected German art from the early twentieth century, particularly German Expressionist prints, alongside Austrian fine and decorative art of the Vienna Secession and Wi...
In 1961, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation donated fourteen Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures to the University of Wisconsin. From 1929 to 1961, the Kress Collection of over 3,000 works of European art was disseminated by gift to many regional and academic art museums and universities throughout the United States, with the large...
The Lanes began collecting art in the late 1950s, on a quest for a painting to hang over the couch, and over three decades acquired a significant collection of twentieth-century American and European sculpture by many important artists of the period, including Picasso, Magritte, Calder, John Chamberlain, Louise Nevelson, Joan Miró, and many others....
Oct 28, 2021 · WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman David Trone alongside Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (all D-Md.) announced that the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts will receive $12,151 in American Rescue Plan funding for an augmented reality platform.
Jul 23, 2021 · U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) announced that his office is now accepting applications from students across Maryland for nominations to the Uniformed Service Academies in the Class of 2026. All applications and supporting materials must be received electronically by 5 p.m. on September 30, 2021.
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2023 UAA Champions! Van Hollen saw action in one game during his freshman season, playing nine minutes off the bench during the Eagles’ 5-1 win over Rhodes College on September 13 th . For complete career statistics, click here. Was a four-year member of the Bethesda Chevy Chase High School team, serving as a co-captain during his senior year...
The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s critically acclaimed exhibition “Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture” was just days away from opening to the public when the museum closed March 14 due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The exhibition and the museum have been awaiting visitors ever since.
