The Spectacle of Life: The Art of William Glackens
Permanent Collection - The Ira Glackens Bequest. A glimpse of a bygone, gentler era, through the display of one of its most gifted painters, William J. Glackens. When Ira Glackens, son of American impressionist William Glackens, died in 1991, he left his substantial collection of works by his father to the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale.

The original donation included more than two hundred works in a variety of media, later supplemented by another 300 works given by the Sansom Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Ira and Nancy Glackens in the 1950s to oversee their art interests. More...

The Indigo Room or Is Memory Water Soluble?
Edouard Duval-Carrié
This dramatic installation, created by Miami-based Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié, was inaugurated in the summer of 2004 to coincide with the bicentennial of Haiti’s independence from French colonial rule. The Indigo Room or Is Memory Water Soluble? explores the historical and contemporary experience of that island’s people and its diaspora. Duval-Carrié, the Museum’s first Artist in Residence, enlisted the assistance of high school students from the Dillard Center for the Arts to gather information and collect personal objects from the local Haitian community. Added to the artist’s own collection of ephemera, the mementos, carefully arranged by all participants, remain permanently suspended for our contemplation in a translucent grid. More...

CoBrA
In 1948, while in Paris for an international conference, a group of northern European artists founded a movement that quickly came to be known as CoBrA, an acronym for the capitals of the artists’ respective countries – Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam. The CoBrA style, abstract and expressionistic in nature, embraced spontaneity, childlike naiveté, and the exuberant use of bold, bright colors. And while the movement itself was short-lived – 1948 to 1951 – its influence proved to be far-reaching and enduring.

Among the foremost CoBrA artists were Asger Jorn of Denmark, Pierre Alechinsky of Belgium, and Karel Appel of the Netherlands. This selection of works on paper from the 1950’s through 1980 is drawn from the Museum’s extensive permanent collection of CoBrA art generously donated by Dr. Meyer and Golda Marks.