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Leo Villareal is renowned for his large-scale, site-specific light installations. Notably, he is creating Evanescent Field, a light sculpture which will illuminate the Figge Art Museum facade in 2025. Once completed, it will be the largest public artwork in Iowa. Villareal’s prominent works include The Bay Lights on San Francisco’s Bay ...
1 day ago · March 17 – April 29, 2023. The Figge Art Museum is hosting the Interstellar Exhibition. Starting this month, there will be nine pieces from Leo Villareal’s Nebulae series. There are eighteen hundred different variations that can appear on the sculptures’ surface. There are also selections from Villareal’s NFT series, Cosmic Boom.
The Figge Art Museum’s permanent holdings include many nationally and internationally known objects and bear witness to more than seven decades of philanthropy and civic pride. The collections offer a distinctive look at regional, national and international art from the 15th century to the present. A gift of 334 paintings from Charles August Ficke to the City of Davenport formed the nucleus ...
Green's collection is the foundation of the Figge's American Gothic Parody Collection. Additional items such as the TIME Magazine cover, "Everybody's Hip" from 1994 were added since by Davenport Museum of Art curatorial staff from the late 1980s through most of the 1990s. Other objects, such as the home made "knock-offs" with family members ...
For thousands of years, artists have been fascinated with capturing the likeness of individuals through portraiture. The style and the nature of these portrayals have shifted with time and across cultures, evolving from an art form reserved largely for flattering images of the upper classes to today’s more democratized and inclusive vision of humanity. Here we present a selection of ...
May 10, 2021 · The blockbuster traveling exhibit, “For America: 200 Years of Painting from the National Academy of Design” at Figge Art Museum in Davenport ends on May 16th. But if you’re still not comfortable making an in-person visit, or you’re looking for more insight, information, and activities beyond the exhibit itself, the Figge has another blockbuster for you online.
The Figge Art Museum currently houses the University of Iowa Museum of Art collection, after the University of Iowa's gallery was flooded in 2008. [7] The collection, which totals over 12,000 works, includes significant paintings by American artists such as Jackson Pollock, Stuart Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Peter Golfinopoulos, Sam Gilliam, Adolph Gottlieb, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Ad ...
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