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Exhibition

X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022

August 18, 2023 through December 21, 2023
  • Elizabeth Murray, Wishing for the Farm.
  • Ursula von Rydingsvard, 3 boxes.
  • Robert Colescott, The Other Washingtons.
  • Richard Avedon, Danny Lane, Fourteen Year Old, Christine Coil, Seventeen Year Old, Calhan, Colorado, 7/31/81.

Second-floor north galleries, including the Kathryn and Marc LeBaron Gallery and the Dodie Acklie Nakajima Gallery


X: A Decade of Collecting presents a snapshot of a point in the evolution of the museum’s holdings. Chosen to demonstrate the breadth of the museum’s collecting efforts, the works in this exhibition are drawn from approximately 1,850 that have entered Sheldon’s collection since 2012.

Featured works include objects by Richard Avedon, Robert Colescott, Lois Dodd, Norman Lewis, Joyce Pensato, Alec Soth, Hank Willis Thomas, Robert Rauschenberg, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Andy Warhol, Stanley Whitney, and Sue Williams.