Cross Pollination: Flowers Across the Collection

Presented in conjunction with the immersive anchor installation Rebecca Louise Law: Awakening (Galleries 12 and 13), this exhibition unites a wonderfully diverse arrangement of floral artworks from HoMA’s permanent collection. 

The exhibition includes iconic artworks by 17th-century Dutch floral masters, paintings on Japanese screens, Korean celadon ware, Native American beaded bags, works by Impressionists and Post Impressionists, works from Hawai‘i and Hawaiian artists, and more. An exception to the artworks sourced from the museum’s permanent collection is a German expressionist painting by Max Beckmann, on reciprocal loan from SFMOMA. Experienced all together, this exhibition celebrates the universal appeal of botanical imagery over the centuries, with individual works exploring the symbolic meanings attributed to particular flowers in various cultures. 

TOP BANNER
Paul Wonner, American, 1920–2008. To Flora (2nd Version), 1985. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 2011, and gift of Evelyn Twigg-Smith (TCM.2008.23.1) 

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