Hunter Museum of American Art

Behind the Scenes at the Hunter

Summer is in full swing at the Hunter Museum with Window on the West and Dale Chihuly’s Laguna Murano Chandelier in the temporary exhibition galleries and Jellies: Living Art on display at the Tennessee Aquarium. Nevertheless, the Museum’s exhibition staff is staying busy behind the scenes. In addition to couriering artwork from our collection for exhibition at another museum, we are preparing an array of works which are in the process of entering our collection. These will soon be exhibited for our visitors.

The Hunter Museum will be entrusted to care for four sculptures chosen by the local community for our Art in Public Places program. We are finalizing arrangements to receive and install works from Bart Walter at the Chattanooga Zoo and from Dennis Oppenheim at Miller Park. The staff is also busy with fabrication and installation plans for the large sculpture by Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse that will take shape in the fall across the river in Renaissance Park. In addition, we will also install a sculpture by Terry Allen at the park.

The Acquisition Committee of the Hunter’s Board of Directors has been reviewing a number of works by various artists for possible addition to Museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition staff prepares and installs each of these pieces in a gallery presentation for the committee to view. Each year, this committee is entrusted with finding and acquiring works that will supplement the Museum's existing collection. No final decisions have been made, but our audience will soon be able to view new canvasses, glass and mixed media works at the Hunter Museum.

In an effort to expand the Hunter’s reputation throughout our region, we strive to honor requests from other museums who wish to borrow pieces from our collection to supplement exhibitions at their facilities. Most recently, our exhibition staff transported works by Hans Hoffmann, Paul Jenkins and Helen Frankenthaler to the Bascom Center for the Arts in Highlands, N.C. for an inaugural exhibition in their new building showcasing Frankenthaler and other color field painters.

John Thornbury, Hunter Museum exhibit preparator

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