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Preserving & Collecting Wisconsin Art
By Bonnie Hartmann, Director of the Miller Art Museum
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statement from the President of the Art Institute of Chicago regarding
its museum permanent collections is echoed by all who collect,
conserve, and exhibit:
"An art museum has no greater
responsibility than to choose from among the many art works offered,
those precious few that should enter its permanent collection. This is a
choice born of education, experience, and fine judgment and is always
made with the public interest in mind. Indeed, art museums exist in
order to build their collections and hold them in trust for the
communities they serve. These objects are in every meaningful way the
public's collection, assembled over many years and preserved for all
time."
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"The Nelson Place," egg tempera, 1968, by Gerhard Miller is one of many pieces in the Miller Art Museum's permanent collection.
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The permanent collection at the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay
has the following mission and parameters: "to collect master works of
Wisconsin Art from 1900 on - in painting, drawing, prints, and
photography."
Documenting and caring for a collection, now over
700 pieces, is an ongoing responsibility for the Curator Deborah
Rosenthal. Rarely a day goes by that she is not performing some task
specific to collection needs.
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