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www.artmuseum.arizona.edu/
For more information about
The University of Arizona Museum
of Art's permanent collection contact
Dr. Peter S. Briggs,
Interim Chief Curator:
psbriggs@u.arizona.edu
Metamorphoses of Ovid, 1886, bronze, cast by Perzinka Foundry, shown in
the Cantor Collection exhibition
(Photo from review in Tucson
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University of Arizona Art Museum
Speedway & Park Avenue
P.O. Box 210002
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0002 USA
Tel. 001 - 520 - 621 75 67
Fax 001 - 520 - 621 87 70
Assistant Curator: Betsy Hughes, bhughes@email.arizona.edu
The University of Arizona Museum of Art houses one of the most
complete university collections in the Southwest of Renaissance and
later European and American art. The Edward J. Callagher Memorial
Collection features over 200 European and American paintings, sculptures
and works on paper from the late 19th and 20th centuries, including
sculptures by Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Aristide Maillol, David Smith,
Alexander Archipenko, Isamu Noguchi, Henry Moore and Jacques Lipchitz
and Auguste Rodin:
 The Danaid, ca. 1885, bronze, ed. of 6, Alexis Rudier
Fondeur, 28.1 x
41.2 x 24.5 cm,
gift of Edward J. Gallagher, Jr.
La baigneuse aux sandales, ca. 1890, bronze,
Georges Rudier Fondeur,
posthumous cast 1965,
41.8 x 19.0 x 18.0 cm, gift of Edward J.
Gallagher, Jr.
Both works should be illustrated in
either the Athena Tacha Spear catalog (Cleveland, 1967) or Albert Elsen RODIN (New York, 1963)
From December 1997 till 27 January 1998, the University Museum hosted
the Rodin exhibition organized by the Cantor Collection (Read the
extensive review by Margaret Regan from the Tucson
Weekly).
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www.phxart.org/
E-mail: info@phxart.org
The Kiss, 1880-82, bronze
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Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
1625 North Central Avenue at McDowell Road
Phoenix, Arizona 85004-1685 USA
Tel. 001 - 602 - 253 86 62
The 19th Century gallery features, among others, a bronze cast of
Rodin's The Kiss.
The Website also tells the background story of its protagonists,
Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini of 13th century Italy, which was
part of Dante´s Divina Commedia (1321): Francesca was murdered by her
husband Giovanni because she had fallen in love with his brother Paolo.
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