In 2020, The Ringling has received a significant gift of art from Murray Bring and Kay Delaney Bring, in support of the modern and contemporary collection. This fall, the museum unveils an exhibition of selections from this gift in dialogue with rarely seen works from the collection. Highlights of the gift include an important minimalist
work by Anne Truitt and a monumental work on canvas by
Gene Davis, both artists affiliated with the Washington Color School. Additional works in the gift represent a generation of prominent artists who work, or have worked, in abstraction, including
Clement Meadmore,
Jules Olitski,
Beverly Pepper,
Rebecca Salter,
Kenneth Snelson, and
Yuriko Yamaguchi, among others. On view are sculptures and paintings by distinguished African American and Latin American artists from the collection, including
William Edmondson,
Eduardo Mac Entyre,
Omar Rayo,
Baruj Salinas, and
Joyce Vourvoulias. The exhibition brings together artworks that probe the themes of spirituality, nature, and perception through explorations in abstraction, minimalism, geometry, and form.