David Winton Bell Gallery

Inaugurated in 1971, The David Winton Bell Gallery is the primary site for Brown's permanent collection and hosts five major exhibitions each year, typically with associated programming like lectures, performances, and symposiums. This gallery is committed to showing the very best work of contemporary artists working in diverse media. They also support emerging and under-recognized local, national, and international artists. The Bell Gallery also uses its encyclopedic art historical collection to program exhibitions about the arts and culture of the past five centuries. Recent exhibitions have included solo shows by Melvin Edwards and Carrie Mae Weems and Pierre Huyghe's new work. They also organized thematic group shows like Fertile Ground: Maria Berrio and Zoe Charlton, and Joiri Minaya: Dead Animals and the strange occurrences of Taxidermy within contemporary art. Bell's collection spans the 16th century to the present and currently consists of 7,008 pieces. The gallery includes an exceptionally robust collection of 20th- and 21st-century works on paper, including School of Paris giants Henri Matisse and Auguste Renoir alongside contemporary artists such as Michelle Grabner and Chitra Ganesh and Denise Green and Sean Scully. The sculpture and painting collections include seminal works like Lee Bontecou’s Untitled (1962) sculptural relief. Blue Horizon (Frank Stella’s significant transitional painting, 1952). The print collection is encyclopedic and encompasses western art from Duerer, Aldegrever, Callot, Rembrandt to Daumier, Manet to Kollwitz, Kirchner and Warhol to Schnabel, Mark Dion, Fred Wilson, and Ghada Amer. The photography collection is strong in mid-century documentation, with significant works by Walker Evans, Aaron Siskind, and Larry Clark.