Mara Superior, “English Delftware: A Collection of Blue Dash Chargers”, 2016, 12.5 x 16 x 1.5″, high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, gold leaf. Everson Museum of Art.
On View November 16, 2019 – March 22, 2020
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
In 1911, the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts (known today as the Everson) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would focus on collecting works made by American artists. This decision, implemented by Museum Director Fernando Carter, was the first of many made by directors that ultimately defined the Everson’s collection as it exists today. This exhibition examines over one hundred years of the Museum’s collecting priorities, from the Museum’s earliest acquisitions in 1911 to work acquired in 2019.
