'Shared Vision' Opens at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery

The Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania presents Shared Vision: The Myron A. and Anne Jaffe Portenar Collection. It opens to the public on Saturday, July 19, 2014. The exhibition includes 63 works drawn from the Portenars' extraordinary gift of over 800 prints, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper donated to the University in 2013. Dr. and Mrs. Portenar selectively built their collection over forty years, filling the walls of their homes in New York and New Jersey. A Penn alumna, Anne Portenar's passion and vision focused on 20^th century masters, including Joan Miro, Robert Motherwell, Jacob Lawrence, Stuart Davis, Robert Rauschenberg, and Susan Rothenberg. Mexican modernism is represented in prints by Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Mora, and Jose Clemente Orozco. Photographs in the show are a virtual "Who's Who", including Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Curtis, Edward Steichen, Minor White, Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Weston, and Walker Evans.