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Friday, April 30, 2004
The Eunice and Hal David Collection of 19th- and 20th-Century Works on Paper He's best-known for providing the lyrics to hit songs with composer Burt Bacharach -- "Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and "Alfie," to name a few -- but Hal David did more than co-write some catchy tunes decades ago. He and his wife, Eunice, also are avid art collectors, specifically of works on paper. Together, they've amassed a formidable collection, part of which will be on view at the Portland Art Museum beginning Saturday in an exhibit organized by the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibit features 60 drawings by 48 artists and spans roughly 200 years. Works by such diverse greats as Isamu Noguchi, Alexander Calder, Mary Cassatt and David Hockney will be on display. Portland Art Museum is at 1219 S.W. Park Ave.
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The Eunice and Hal David Collection
PORTLAND — The Portland Art Museum presents an exhibition of drawings from the collection of Oscar-winning lyricist Hal David and his wife Eunice. The Eunice and Hal David Collection of 19th- and 20th- Century Works on Paper will be on view from May 1 through July 25, 2004. The collection features 60 drawings by 48 celebrated artists who have shaped the course of art history. Artists represented span a period of 200 years, and include Eugene Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Pierre-August Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, Winslow Homer, Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, Henri Mattise, Fernand Léger, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell, Richard Diebenkorn, Isamu Noguchi, Andy Warhol, Sam Francis and David Hockney.
The works in the exhibition span nearly 200 years, ranging from a 1830s pen sketch by Eugene Delacroix to a 1995 mixed media study by Red Grooms. One area of intense focus is work by late 19th-century French draftsmen, including Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Francois Millet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet. The collection ranges widely across the 20th century and charts developments in both figuration and abstraction, featuring works by such artists as Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Sam Francis, and Robert Motherwell.
The collection represents a passion for collecting works on paper that is shared by Eunice and Hal David of Los Angeles. David notes that on their visits to museums, the couple noticed that they both seemed most pulled toward "the studies that turned into paintings and sculptures along the way." Hal David is the celebrated lyricist who collaborated with composer Burt Bacharach on such hit songs as "The Look of Love," "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," and "What the World Needs Now." The couple's attraction to drawings that are works in progress relates, according to Eunice David, to "Hal's creativeness and the way he writes his songs, starting from nothing and then turning it into something." The Davids' first acquisition of a drawing of a nude by French artist Pierre Bonnard around ten years ago hooked them on collecting works on paper.
Portland Art Museum Executive Director, John Buchanan, leads a discussion with David at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 2, in the Whitsell Auditorium. Admission is free to Museum members or with Museum Admission. Tickets are required and available on a first-come, first served basis at the Museum Box Office, only. For more information, call 503-226-2811.
PORTLAND — The Portland Art Museum presents an exhibition of drawings from the collection of Oscar-winning lyricist Hal David and his wife Eunice. The Eunice and Hal David Collection of 19th- and 20th- Century Works on Paper will be on view from May 1 through July 25, 2004. The collection features 60 drawings by 48 celebrated artists who have shaped the course of art history. Artists represented span a period of 200 years, and include Eugene Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Pierre-August Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, Winslow Homer, Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, Henri Mattise, Fernand Léger, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell, Richard Diebenkorn, Isamu Noguchi, Andy Warhol, Sam Francis and David Hockney.
The works in the exhibition span nearly 200 years, ranging from a 1830s pen sketch by Eugene Delacroix to a 1995 mixed media study by Red Grooms. One area of intense focus is work by late 19th-century French draftsmen, including Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Francois Millet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet. The collection ranges widely across the 20th century and charts developments in both figuration and abstraction, featuring works by such artists as Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Sam Francis, and Robert Motherwell.
The collection represents a passion for collecting works on paper that is shared by Eunice and Hal David of Los Angeles. David notes that on their visits to museums, the couple noticed that they both seemed most pulled toward "the studies that turned into paintings and sculptures along the way." Hal David is the celebrated lyricist who collaborated with composer Burt Bacharach on such hit songs as "The Look of Love," "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," and "What the World Needs Now." The couple's attraction to drawings that are works in progress relates, according to Eunice David, to "Hal's creativeness and the way he writes his songs, starting from nothing and then turning it into something." The Davids' first acquisition of a drawing of a nude by French artist Pierre Bonnard around ten years ago hooked them on collecting works on paper.
Portland Art Museum Executive Director, John Buchanan, leads a discussion with David at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 2, in the Whitsell Auditorium. Admission is free to Museum members or with Museum Admission. Tickets are required and available on a first-come, first served basis at the Museum Box Office, only. For more information, call 503-226-2811.