December 7, 2005 - May 8, 2006 MAIN GALLERY From the Collection of Paul J. Schupf '58 in Recognition of Harvey Picker '36 The Picker Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening, on December 7, 2005, of an important short-term loan exhibition drawn entirely from the collection of Paul J. Schupf '58. The fifteen prints, paintings, and drawings by contemporary American artists Chuck Close, Alex Katz and Richard Serra reveal a powerful current in Modern art. Although not overtly similar in style, the works in this exhibition all share a commitment to abstract form and monumental design, and to the primacy of the expressive surface. The three artists represented here are linked by personal connections as well: Close studied with Katz at the Yale School of Art, and once worked as a studio assistant to Serra. Schupf, a longtime patron of the arts, is one of the 10 most generous donors in Colgate's history. He has presented the college with the Paul J. Schupf Studio Arts Center, the W.S. Schupf Chair in Far Eastern Studies, and the Schupf Fellowship, the only annual fellowship for study at Oxford offered at an undergraduate liberal arts college in the United States. He has dedicated the current exhibition to Harvey Picker, Colgate Class of 1936 and Trustee Emeritus, in recognition of his longstanding generosity to Colgate University and to the Picker Art Gallery, on the occasion of Picker's 90th birthday.

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