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General News Zimmerli Art Museum The Art History Department’s neighbor, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, has expanded in style. On November 12, 2000, after a year of renovation and construction, the museum re-opened to Rutgers’ students and the public. The Zimmerli’s successful transformation was made possible by a $4.3 million gift from Norton and Nancy Dodge. With an increased budget and gallery space, the Zimmerli moves into the top 5% of all university art museums in the U.S. The Zimmerli’s collection is the third largest university art museum collection, behind Yale and Harvard. The renovation fulfilled the museum’s demand for more gallery and storage space to hold its accomplished and diverse collections. This collection includes the exceptional Dodge Collection, the world’s largest collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, as well as, Japonisme, mid-twentieth century American art, French graphic art (19- early 20th centuries), and the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios (RAPS). Phillip Dennis Cate, Director of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, was the editor and primary essayist for the catalogue, "Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s," published by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 2000. In November 2000, he presented the paper, "Drawing upon the Moment: Journalistic Art and the Avant-garde, 1880-1910," at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. In addition, the exhibition "The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor, and the Avant-Garde, 1875-1905," displaying 400 works from Zimmerli collection, was on view in summer of 2000 at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. He curated the exhibition and co-authored the catalogue with Mary Shaw from the Rutgers French Department.  |
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