Dialogues & Conversations Scott Burton: Shape Shift Gallery A Dialogues & Conversations explores artistic influence—both within an individual’s life and across the broader arc of art history. Organized by Pulitzer Arts Foundation Founder and Board Chair Emily Rauh Pulitzer in celebration of the museum’s twenty-fifth anniversary, this exhibition draws largely from Mrs. Pulitzer’s own art collection. Pulitzer and her late husband, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., assembled the collection over many decades, both independently and together. Encompassing significant works of modern and contemporary sculpture, drawings, and paintings, the collection reflects the couple’s sustained engagement with artists and ideas. The show also features key loans from the Harvard Art Museums, where Mrs. Pulitzer worked as Assistant Curator of Drawings from 1957 to 1964, and the Saint Louis Art Museum, where she was Curator from 1964 to 1973, as well as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Mrs. Pulitzer herself organized the acquisition of several of these works by Harvard and the Saint Louis Art Museum during the formative years of her curatorial practice, and they illustrate how her vision shaped both institutions. Featuring more than eighty artworks, Dialogues & Conversations unfolds through a series of thematic constellations. The groupings reveal relationships among
artistic peers and across generations of artists, spanning from the late nineteenth century to the present. Several sections underscore Mrs. Pulitzer’s long-standing interest in drawings and the evolution of modern and contemporary sculpture—an enthusiasm nurtured through her extended dialogues with artists such as Dan Flavin, Ellsworth Kelly, and Richard Serra. The exhibition also reflects on the Pulitzer Arts Foundation’s own history. Works by artists featured in past shows—including Faye HeavyShield, Delcy Morelos, Medardo Rosso, and Doris Salcedo—return to view, marking a quarter century of exhibitions, collaborations, and scholarship. Throughout Dialogues & Conversations, the works invite close looking, thoughtful exchange, and open inquiry—values at the museum’s core. This exhibition is organized by Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Founder and Board Chair of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, with Molly Moog, Curatorial Associate. Unless otherwise noted, all works are from the collection of Emily Rauh Pulitzer.
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