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40th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating 40 Years of Collecting

Curated by Louisa Gloger and Elia Haworth

This exhibition presents a cross-section of artworks from Bolinas Museum’s robust permanent collection. Through the generosity of artists and supporters, Bolinas Museum stewards a collection of artworks from the 1800s to today. In 1987, the museum’s second Director, Joyce Clements, established the Living Artists Project, known today as the museum’s Coastal Marin Artists Gallery, for artists living or working in studios between Tomales and Muir Beach. Director Linda Samuels further cultivated an appreciation of local artists. After the museum purchased its buildings, Dolores Richards dedicated one gallery to coastal Marin artists and one to the permanent collection, so coastal Marin artists are always represented at Bolinas Museum and are often the focus of our main and photography gallery exhibitions. Established in 2002 by Richards, our permanent collection includes works by significant California artists and artists from further afield who have exhibited in the museum. For this 40th anniversary exhibition, we have included new acquisitions to the collection and many works that have not recently been shown. We are fortunate to live in a region rich with talented, accomplished artists and a deeply interested and appreciative audience.

The exhibition includes works by Peter Allen, William Anders/Michael Light, Richard Blair, Ken Botto, Joyce Clements, George Demont Otis, Charles Dorman Robinson, Alfred Farnsworth, Ron Garrigues, Ilka Hartmann, Robert Harvey, Harriet Kossman, Annie Leibovitz, Irwin Manheim, Barry McGee, Arthur Okamura, Barbara Ravizza, Sally Robertson, Leah Schwartz, Randy Sexton, Lewis Watts, Ludmilla Welch, Jack Wisby, and Ido Yoshimoto.

And, in the Permanent Collection Gallery, works by Edgar Angelone, JB Blunk, Art Carpenter, Russell Chatham, Charles Eckart, Peter de Swart, Michael Gregory, Sha Sha Higby, Beth Moon, Sally Robertson, Clare Rojas, and Thaddeus Welch are currently on view.

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