Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art

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Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Established1982
Location Logan, Utah
Type Art museum
Website artmuseum.usu.edu

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) is an accredited academic art museum focused on modern and contemporary art at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. NEHMA was founded in 1982 with the ceramic collection of philanthropist and namesake Nora Eccles Harrison. The museum has since expanded to include over 5,500 objects focused on modernist and contemporary works created in the western region of the United States. The core of the collection explores certain key art historical movements including Beat, Los Angeles Post-Surrealism, Santa Fe Transcendentalism, and Bay Area Abstract Expressionism. The museum also collects and exhibits contemporary works that function as glimpses of the thriving art scenes found in many cities in the Western United States. Additionally, the museum serves as the recipient of the Vogel Collection for the state of Utah. [1]

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History

Nora Eccles Harrison and her second husband, Richard Harrison, founded the museum with a gift to build a museum building and more than four hundred ceramic objects. The building was designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes and opened in 1982. In the fall of 2013 the courtyard outside the museum's entrance began renovations. NEHMA's collection continues to grow with ceramics in the vessel tradition, as well as works on paper, painting, sculpture and multimedia works, enabled largely through the support of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation, Kathryn Caine Wanlass Foundation, Fredrick Quinney Lawson Foundation and the Lawson Foundation. In 2008 the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art was selected to receive a gift from New York art collectors Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. These 50 works of art were part of a national gifts program entitled "The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States.” This program has distributed 2,500 works of art from the Vogel's personal collection of over 4,000 pieces of modern and contemporary art, with 50 works going to one selected art institution in each of the 50 states. [2]

The museum is accredited through the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and is also a certified Utah museum through the Utah Division of Arts & Museums. Throughout its history, NEHMA has been dedicated to collecting, preserving, and exhibiting modern and contemporary visual art. As an academic art museum and as part of the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University, educational programs for both the students and general public remain central.

Past exhibits

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art rotates exhibits regularly. Some past examples of exhibits since 2007 include: [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art". Utah State University. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2016-06-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  3. ↑ , Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 February 2014.

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