April 23 - July 31, 2004:
The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain

In celebration of its Tenth anniversary, The Kreeger Museum is presenting art from the di Rosa Preserve, in Napa California.

This will be the first time since the di Rosa Preserve opened to the public in 1997 that any works from its outstanding collection of Bay Area art will be seen outside California. The Kreeger Museum is pleased to provide the inaugural venue for this traveling show. Jack Rasmussen, a long time friend and independent curator of art, well known in the Washington region is the newly appointed Director of the Preserve and the curator of this show. There will be approximately 44 works by the 18 artists who have most shaped Bay Area art after the rise of the Bay Area Figurative School of the 1950s. It gives special emphasis to the Beat-influenced painting and sculpture coming out of San Francisco's North Beach (Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hendrick, Manuel Neri)and the flourishing of ceramic art that began in the University of California, Davis/Sacramento region(Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, James Melchert, Richard Shaw, Peter Voulkos) There will be fine examples from the ?Funk Art? movement, identified by their Dada influenced use of new materials and their exuberant outrageous wit (Clayton Bailey, Roy DeForest, Robert Hudson, William Wiley) The show also brings some assorted mavericks who do not fit into any particular category, save that of coming from California!(William Allan, David Best, David Ireland, Paul Kos.) There will be a catalog for the show with essays contributed by Allan, Hedrick, Melchert and others.