Noon @ the ‘Spoon Public Tour: The Cone Family Legacy
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Our 20-minute Noon @ the ‘Spoon tour is a fun way to explore a new exhibition during your lunch break. Offered the second Tuesday of the month. Free and open to the public.
This month we will be touring the exhibition The Cone Family Legacy (on view through July 12, 2020).
Beginning with the sisters Claribel and Etta Cone’s 1950 donation of art, the Cone family has provided crucial support over many years to the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the most important example being the lead gift from Anne and Benjamin Cone, Sr. to construct our current building.
This extraordinary family also has helped build the collection through outright gifts and funds to acquire works, an acquisition endowment, a generous bequest from Anne Cone, gifts in honor of Anne and Ben, and donations from countless other family members.
Artists in the exhibition include Nancy Grossman, David Smith, Joseph Stella, Jo Baer, Andy Warhol, and Paul Wonner, among others. Collectively, the Cone gifts represent almost all media and every decade of the 20th century.
Organized by Nancy Doll, Director.
Paul Manship, Spearthrower, 1921, bronze, 20 1/2 x 18 in. Weatherspoon Art Museum. Gift of Anne and Benjamin Cone in memory of Herbert S. Falk, Sr., 1976.
