Some of the Chazen Museum’s 25,000 pieces of art remain on the gallery floors as curators bring the ideas they’ve been crafting for the last three years to life. The museum shuttered its galleries in April, ahead of a major refresh including new signage, interactive tours and more.
Artworks with ties to the Wisconsin landscape will be displayed in a gallery anchored by John Steuart Curry's "Wisconsin Farm Scene, 1941," background center, when the Chazen Museum of Art reopens later this summer. Other works in the gallery include the sculpture "Feather Tree" by Truman Lowe, foreground center, "Kaelyn Chasenah" by Ho-Chunk nation photographer Tom Jones, left, and another Curry work, "Chris L. Christensen," right. Exploring the nearly completed gallery is Chazen's chief curator, Katherine Alcauskas.
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Katherine Alcauskas, chief curator for the Chazen Museum of Art is framed by a selection of the museum’s blue and white ceramic pieces in a soon-to-be-opened gallery at the museum.
"Red Squared Descending Form, 1982," by Harvey Littleton is a focus object in a soon-to-be-opened gallery of glass at the Chazen. Littleton was a former UW-Madison professor and founder of the nation's first hot glass art program at a university.
Works sharing a religious motif are readied for display in a gallery at the Chazen Museum of Art.
Artworks intended for placement in a mezzanine area of UW-Madison's Chazen Museum of Art are positioned around the perimeter of the space at the museum on the campus.
A 17th century Dutch oil painting shares a wall with decorative and utilitarian plates in a Chazen Museum of Art gallery centered around the themes of translucent treasures, commerce and consequence and enduring influence.
Photos: UW-Madison's Chazen Museum
Two buildings make up the The Chazen Museum of Art, the Conrad A. Elvehjem which opened in 1970 and the new addition that opened in 2011. The two are connected by a bridge on the third floor that has views of Lake Mendota. Opening last week, Richard Haas: The Madison Projects, is on exhibit until January 10, 2016.
Bill Martinelli, of Madison, looks at the work in the Richard Haas: The Madison Projects exhibit at the Chazen Museum.
