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 Vallarta Living | Art Talk | April 2006 
Additions to the Peter Gray Museum
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| | The museum is open Monday thru Friday from 10 am to 1 pm and from 3 pm to 5 pm. |
The Peter Gray Art Museum at the Centro Universitario de le Costa continues to expand the art collection which is on permanent display there. Also, just in the last two months, as an extra amenity, the museum has added a snack-bar serving snacks and soft drinks.
The recent art acquisitions cover a wide range of techniques and styles. The latest gift to be placed on display is a painting by the very talented and popular local artist, Ada Colorina. Her painting joins one by her father, which was donated by Ada two years ago. It is rather special to have a father and daughter both represented in the museum.
A splendid oil painting by Judith Ewing Morlan has been donated by local residents Fred and Dorothy Piontkowski. The painting represents the artist's mastery of landscape painting at her best.
Having been honored by the Piontkowski's gift to the museum, Judith Ewing Morlan became a donor herself two times over, firstly by giving the museum a fine charcoal study of a nude by the Austrian painter, Georg Rauch. That was quickly followed up by the gift of an oil painting by Colima-born Javier Fernandez.
David Straud is an American who has dedicated himself to making countless drawings of old and characterful buildings over some forty years and in many countries, He heard about the museum while in Mexico City and promptly packed up an impressive ink and water color study of a church in Puebla and sent it here to Puerto Vallarta.
Maria Eugenia Novelo donated a still-life oil painting entitled 'Papayas.' Another prominent local artist, Meg Munro contacted Peter and Buri Gray to offer one of her outstanding watercolors. The work she gave is now in the museum, demonstrating her remarkable sensitivity and skill.
Thanks to the generosity of individual donors, the collection continues to grow in importance. Each donation helps to fulfil the primary aim of the Museum as it was first envisaged by Peter Gray three years ago. That is, to provide the more than five thousand students at the university with an opportunity right on campus to enjoy and learn about all kinds and styles of art - old and new, embracing techniques ranging from pencil drawings to etchings to oils to water colors. Not forgetting sculptures also. The more diverse, the better the experience. Also helping fulfill that aim, works on view range from the 18th century to the present day.
As the museum moves forward, the aim will be to bring in more works from other countries. That largely depends on getting people who have art collections of their own to decide they can part with just one painting, so that it can be enjoyed by thousands of young people for many years to come. Prospective donors can call Peter Gray at 221-5285 or e-mail him at albans@prodigy.net.mx.
The Museum is open to the public and visitors are encouraged to come and enjoy the collection and to get to know the entire campus. To get to CUC, take the highway beyond the airport. Turn right at the Ixtapa exit. The entrance to the University is sign-posted 2 kms along the road to Ixtapa. Drive down the entrance road and park in the car-park immediately inside the gates. Walk through the campus to the Peter Gray Art Museum. The museum is open Monday thru Friday from 10 am to 1 pm and from 3 pm to 5 pm. Note that the University campus closes for Easter break. |
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