New Marvin Cone Exhibition Opening at the CRMA
Cedar Rapids, Iowa—The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (CRMA) is excited to announce the opening of our next exhibition,
The Sky’s The Limit: Marvin Cone’s Clouds on Saturday, May 1, 2010.
Throughout his entire career, Marvin Cone was fascinated by clouds and he demonstrated his awe of and reverence for cloud formations in many paintings and drawings. In some of his works, majestic clouds are so much the subject that those paintings are more correctly called “cloudscapes” than landscapes. This exhibition of thirty works from the 1910s to the 1940s traces the many ways and styles Cone used to capture the ethereal and transitory qualities of clouds, as well as their majesty and power.
In conjunction with this exhibition, CRMA Executive Director, Terry Pitts will present Art Bites “Looking at Clouds” on Wednesday, May 5 at 12:15 p.m. Terry will provide a visual twist to the classic sound bite in a 15-minute discussion of Marvin Cone and the CRMA’s new exhibition
The Sky’s The Limit: Marvin Cone’s Clouds. Free gallery admission for this program only. Feel free to bring your lunch and enjoy it afterward in our Bacchanale Room.
The Sky’s The Limit is sponsored in part by the Momentum Fund of The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation and an anonymous donor.
Art Bites will be held at 12:15 p.m. on the first non-holiday Wednesday of each month. For more information about upcoming Art Bites programs, please see our
Calendar of Events. Sponsored by Bankers Trust.
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The mission of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art is to excite, engage and educate our community and visitors through our collection, exhibitions and programs. The Museum’s collection contains more than 5,600 works of art by hundreds of artists, including the world's largest collection of works by Grant Wood. For more information on exhibitions or related programs call the Museum at 319.366.7503 or visit the Museum's web site at www.crma.org. The CRMA is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, with extended hours and free general admission from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday. The CRMA is also open noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, but closed Monday and major holidays.