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Part of the Artis--Naples cultural center, which underwent an extensive renovation in North Naples in 2019, The Baker Museum polishes Naples' reputation for the fine arts. The three-story museum...  Read More

Part of the Artis--Naples cultural center, which underwent an extensive renovation in North Naples in 2019, The Baker Museum polishes Naples' reputation for the fine arts. The three-story museum boasts 15 engaging galleries filled with paintings, sculpture and drawings. The expansive collection includes the museum's entrance gates, which were crafted by renowned metal artist Albert Paley, and stunning chandeliers and a Persian Ceiling by acclaimed glass artist Dale Chihuly. The museum's permanent collection includes modern American masters from 1900 to 1955, such as Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock and Hugh Breckenridge, plus two monumental sculptures by Louise Nevelson. Special exhibitions run throughout the season and ensure a new experience with each visit.

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Current Exhibitions

Helen Levitt
In the Street

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt (1913-2009) used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life on the streets of New York City. Roaming through the Lower East Side, Spanish Harlem and other urban neighborhoods beginning in the mid-1930s, Levitt photographed the poignant and mundane aspects of daily existence in the city’s residential neighborhoods.

September 7 – December 5
Located on the first floor of The Baker Museum

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Subject Matters
Selections from the Permanent Collection

Drawn from The Baker Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition addresses subject matters commonly found in visual arts, while exploring a wide array of formal characteristics and styles in modern and contemporary art. It also demonstrates differing artistic approaches taken by different individuals, reflecting their personal experiences and concerns, as well as the time and places in which they lived and have lived. Subject Matters is organized into nine sections: the Human Figure, Plants and Animals, Landscapes, (Sub)Urban Life, Still-Life, the Home, Artist and Studio, Narratives and Nonfigurative Abstraction.

September 7 – March 2
Located on the second floor of The Baker Museum

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Baseball Heroes
Works from the Jay H. Baker Collection

Featuring more than 100 iconic artifacts from the unparalleled New York Yankees memorabilia collection of Jay H. Baker, this exhibition celebrates baseball as an integral part of American life for nearly 200 years. Baseball Heroes presents extraordinary objects and original documents from Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Derek Jeter. Highlights include Babe Ruth’s earliest known game-used bat, Mickey Mantle’s high school yearbooks and first signed professional contract and the jersey worn by Derek Jeter for his Yankees debut in 1995.

October 16 – May 15
Located on the third floor of The Baker Museum

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Love in All Forms
Selections from the Art Collection of Patty and Jay Baker

As a complement to Baseball Heroes, this exhibition will paint a fuller portrait of noted collectors and philanthropists Patty and Jay Baker through the presentation of selections from their remarkable collection of fine art. From the Impressionist painting of Claude Monet to the art deco portraits of Tamara de Lempicka to the abstract sculpture of Henry Moore, the works in this exhibition represent some of the most significant art historical movements of the past 150 years.

October 16 – May 15
Located on the third floor of The Baker Museum

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Magritte: Reflections of Another World
Paintings from the Van Parys Family

Magritte: Reflections of Another World comprises six paintings — five oils and one gouache — by Belgian artist René Magritte (1898-1967). Renowned for his witty Surrealist paintings of everyday objects in strange surroundings, Magritte preferred that his artworks remain mysterious and open to interpretation. These works are from the collection of Jean Van Parys, a collector of avant-garde art and a close friend of Magritte, and they are on a five-year loan to Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum from Van Parys’ daughter. The paintings have never previously been shown in North America, and none have exhibited publicly in over 48 years.

Ongoing Exhibition
Located on the second floor of The Baker Museum

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Louise Nevelson: Dawn's Forest

The monumental sculpture Dawn’s Forest by preeminent American artist Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) is one of the most iconic works in The Baker Museum’s permanent collection. The work is made of various white-painted abstract wood elements, some as tall as 25 feet, created by Nevelson in her signature assemblage style over a period of more than a year.

Ongoing Exhibition
Located in the Drackett Gallery and throughout Hayes Hall

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Upcoming Exhibitions

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Florida Contemporary
2021-22

Florida Contemporary, an annual exhibition organized by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum, highlights work by notable visual artists active in Florida. Three artists are invited for its ninth iteration this season:Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Akiko Kotani and Noelle Mason. A wide array of compelling works by these artists with distinct backgrounds and artistic interests testify to the creative energies and intellectual vigor present in the state’s visual art world.

October 21 – July 17
Located in the Kohan, Newell and Friends of Artis—Naples Galleries of Hayes Hall

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Pam Longobardi
Ocean Gleaning

Artist Pam Longobardi utilizes found ocean plastics as her primary source material, arranging hundreds of plastic pieces into meticulous wall-mounted artworks or turning them into monumental floor-based sculptures. Working collaboratively with communities around the globe, Longobardi has cleaned beaches from Hawaii to Greece to Panama, and dozens of locations in between, removing tens of thousands of pounds of plastic from the environment and converting them into thought-provoking works of art that shed an unflinching light on the effects of global consumption on the natural world.

December 18 – July 24
Located on the first floor of The Baker Museum

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Another World
The Transcendental Painting Group

Inspired by the ideas of artist and theorist Wassily Kandinsky, as well as by American painters Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keeffe, the Transcendental Painting Group evoked sensuous, synesthetic experiences of nature and ideas, creating works that embodied a higher spiritual reality. Their manifesto was “to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world, through new concepts of space, color, light and design to imaginative realms that are idealistic and spiritual.” Their paintings were an important chapter in the history of modern painting and 20th-century American art.

March 26 – July 24
Located on the second floor of The Baker Museum

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Invisible Thread

Invisible Thread explores the works of contemporary artists who approach spirituality, transcendence and the subconscious through abstraction and metaphorical representation. These artists have continued in the lineages of the ancestors and artisans in generations before them as the transcribers of the mysteries within the universe while being bound together by the invisible thread in the shared channeling of their collective histories.

March 26 – July 24
Located on the second floor of The Baker Museum

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The Baker Museum is one of the foremost fine art museums in Southwest Florida. Emphasizing modern and contemporary art, the museum hosts several traveling exhibitions annually to complement installations of works from its permanent collections. Dedicated to stewardship and scholarship, The Baker Museum provides world-class exhibitions and educational opportunities for Southwest Florida’s diverse community.

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Artis—Naples is grateful to Patty and Jay Baker for their generosity and leadership support of The Baker Museum.

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Artwork shown above:
Dale Chihuly. Red Reeds, 2020. 10 x 43 x 2 feet. Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum. 2021.1.1. Museum purchase made possible through the generosity of Patty and Jay Baker and Jeanette Montgomery Evert and Herbert P. Evert. © Chihuly Studio.

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The Baker Museum is one of the foremost fine art museums in Southwest Florida. The museum hosts several traveling exhibitions annually to complement installations of work from its permanent collection. Comprising more than 4,000 objects, the museum's broad holdings of 20th-and 21st-century art reflect the generosity and commitment of area collectors. Of particular strength are The Baker Museum's collections of American and Mexican modern art and significant gifts from the personal collection of Olga Hirshhorn.

With more than two decades of collecting and exhibiting, the museum is dedicated to stewardship and scholarship from both its growing permanent collection and outside sources. At the same time, The Baker Museum seeks out the best traveling exhibitions from the leading arts institutions in the world, including recently the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Institutions, to enrich the Southwest Florida community.

In fall 2020, Artis—Naples celebrated the opening of an 18,000-square-foot expansion of The Baker Museum, designed by Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, that created new spaces for multidisciplinary exploration and social interaction.

Exhibits

Helen Levitt: In the Street
For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt (1913-2009) used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life on the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, first in black and white and later in color, document neighborhood matriarchs planted on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks and, perhaps most famously, boisterous children at play. On view September 7 through December 5, 2021

Subject Matters: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Drawn entirely from the permanent collection of The Baker Museum, this exhibition identifies subjects and themes that are common throughout the visual arts and explores how different artists approach them. The exhibition is divided into nine sections, each with its own specific theme: The Human Figure, Plants and Animals, Landscapes, (Sub)Urban Life, Still-Life, The Home, Artist and Studio, Narratives and Nonfigurative abstraction. On view September 7, 2021 through March 2, 2022

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The Baker Museum in Naples, FL, in 2020, after the completion of its 2018-2020 renovation and expansion project.

The Baker Museum (formerly the Naples Museum of Art) is part of Artis—Naples, a multidisciplinary organization that also is the home of the Naples Philharmonic, located at 5833 Pelican Bay Boulevard, Naples, Florida. The museum, opened in 2000, houses a diverse collection of art in a three-story, 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m²) facility.^[1] The permanent collection includes works of American modernism, 20th-century Mexican art, sculpture and 3-dimensional art.^[2] In addition to the permanent collection, the museum hosts traveling exhibits throughout the year. The Baker Museum also houses the Sisters Reading Room, which contains the Saldukas Family Foundation library collection.

Collection[edit]

The museum's permanent collection is made up of over 3,500 objects of 20th- and 21st-century art, particularly American and Mexican modern art. The collection continues to grow through donations and museum purchases.

Ahmet Ertegun Collection[edit]

The museum acquired the Ahmet Ertegun collection in 1999, which contains about 300 works of Modernist art from the 1910's through the 1960's. The collection has works by artists A. E. Gallatin, Morgan Russell, Marsden Hartley, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Thomas

Hart Benton, Helen Torr, and Stuart Davis.^[3]

Harry Pollak Collection[edit]

The museum acquired the Harry Pollack collection in 2002, which contains works of modern Mexican art dated from 1900 to 1980. Artists include Leonora Carrington, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.^[3]

Bryna Prensky Collection[edit]

The museum was gifted the Bryna Prensky collection in 2007, which contains Mexican art from artists like Mario Rangel and Felipe Saúl Peña.

Olga Hirshhorn Collection[edit]

The Olga Hirshhorn collection was acquired in 2013 and 2016, and contains a diverse collection of modern and contemporary art by artists such as Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Man Ray, Willem de Kooning, Pablo Picasso, and Ed Ruscha.^[3]

Paul and Charlotte Corddry Collection[edit]

The Paul and Charlotte Corddry collection was donated to the museum in 2016, and contains modern and contemporary art from American artists, including Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Marilyn Minter, Larry Rivers, Ed Moses, Viola Frey, James Rosenquist, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, John Wesley, Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Rauschenberg.^[3]

Programming[edit]

The Baker Museum hosts events including exhibition lectures, workshops, Art After Hours, and Artists' Studio Tour to celebrate the visual arts and lifelong learning. Every last Wednesday of the month from 6pm to 9pm, visitors to the museum for Art After Hours get free admission.[1]

Building[edit]

The Baker Museum closed for repairs in September 2017 due to water damage caused by Hurricane Irma. The museum reopened in December 2019 after two years of building repairs.^[4] The museum is undergoing an expansion project set to be complete in Summer 2020 to add an additional 18,000 square feet, which will house objects from its collection, host events, and create social gathering spaces.^[5] The expansion project was designed by Weiss/Manfredi.^[6]

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