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The now defunct Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

The now defunct Contemporary Museum, Honolulu was the only museum in the state of Hawaii devoted exclusively to contemporary art. The Contemporary Museum had two venues: in residential Honolulu at the historic Spalding House, and downtown Honolulu at First Hawaiian Center.-Collection:Artists...

was the only museum in the state of Hawaii

Hawaii

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

devoted exclusively to contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

. The Contemporary Museum had two venues: in residential Honolulu at the historic Spalding House, and downtown Honolulu

Downtown Honolulu

Downtown Honolulu is the current historic, economic, governmental, and central part of Honolulu—bounded by Nuuanu Stream to the west, Ward Avenue to the east, Vineyard Boulevard to the north, and Honolulu Harbor to the south—situated within the larger Honolulu District...

at First Hawaiian Center.

Collection

Artists represented in the permanent collection included Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...

, Josef Albers

Josef Albers

Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century....

, Robert Arneson

Robert Arneson

Robert Carston Arneson was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at UC Davis for four decades.- Career :...

, Jennifer Bartlett

Jennifer Bartlett

Jennifer Losch Bartlett is an American artist. She is best-known for paintings combining abstract and representational styles.-Education:...

, Robert Brady

Robert David Brady

Robert Brady is a modernist American sculptor who works in ceramics and wood. He was born in Reno, Nevada in 1946. Brady attended the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California from 1964 to 1968, before entering the University of California, Davis, where he received his MFA in...

, John Buck

John E. Buck

John Buck is an American sculptor and printmaker who was born in Ames, Iowa. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Kansas City Art Institute in 1968, and in 1971, he studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine...

, Christopher Bucklow

Christopher Bucklow

Christopher Bucklow is a British artist. He is best known for his photographs and paintings. His work can be found in many museums across the United States. In 2007 his book on Philip Guston was published in the UK...

, Enrique Martinez Celaya

Enrique Martinez Celaya

Enrique Martínez Celaya is a Cuban artist whose work consists of paintings, sculpture, photography, poetry, and prose presented in contexts he calls Environments. His artistic project pushes the boundaries and limits of art, literature, philosophy, and religion...

, Enrique Chagoya

Enrique Chagoya

Enrique Chagoya is a Mexican-born painter and print-maker. His subject is the changing nature of culture.He was born in Mexico City in 1953. He was partly raised by an Indian nurse who helped him to respect the indigenous people of his country and their history. He studied economics at the National...

, Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.-Biography:Chihuly graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington. He enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959...

, John Coplans

John Coplans

John Coplans was a British artist. A veteran of World War II and a photographer, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 and had many exhibitions in Europe and North America...

, Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage...

, Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.-Life and career:Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY...

, Robert Cumming

Robert H. Cumming

Robert H. Cumming is an American painter, sculptor, photographer, and printmaker best known for his photographs of conceptual drawings and constructions, which layer meanings within meanings, and reference both science and art history...

, Stephen De Staebler

Stephen De Staebler

Stephen De Staebler was an internationally celebrated American sculptor best recognized for his work in clay and bronze...

, Richard DeVore

Richard DeVore

Richard DeVore was an American ceramicist that was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1933. He earned a B.Ed. degree with an art major from the University of Toledo in 1955, and received an M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1957. In 1966 DeVore became head of the ceramics department at Cranbrook...

, Jim Dine

Jim Dine

Jim Dine is an American pop artist. He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended Walnut Hills High School, the University of Cincinnati, and received a BFA from Ohio University in 1957. He first earned respect in the art world with...

, Herbert Ferber

Herbert Ferber

Herbert Ferber was an American sculptor and painter, born in New York City. He began his independent artistic studies in New York in 1926 at evening classes at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, while attending Columbia University Dental School...

, Llyn Foulkes

Llyn Foulkes

Llyn Foulkes is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles.As a student at Chouinard Art Institute , Foulkes began exhibiting with the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1959. He held his first one-man exhibition at Ferus in 1961. Other early solo exhibitions included the Pasadena Art Museum ...

, Judy Fox

Judy Fox

For the American photographer and writer, see Judith FoxJudy Fox is an American sculptor who was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1957. She studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1976, earned a BA from Yale University in 1978, studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des...

, Sam Francis

Sam Francis

Samuel Lewis Francis was an American painter and printmaker.-Early life:...

, David Gilhooly

David Gilhooly

David Gilhooly, also known as David James Gilhooly III, is an American ceramicist and printmaker, born in Auburn, California in 1943.He graduated from the University of California, Davis with a BA in 1965 and an MA in 1967...

, David Hockney

David Hockney

David Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....

, Diane Itter

Diane Itter

Diane Itter was an American fiber artist. Her work emerged from the 1960s renaissance of interest in fiber art. While studying at the University of Pittsburgh, she met her future husband, artist William Itter, who encouraged her to experiment with hand-tied knots...

, Ferne Jacobs

Ferne Jacobs

Ferne Jacobs, who is also known as Ferne K. Jacobs and Ferne Kent Jacobs is an American fiber artist and basket maker. She was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1942 to Jewish parents who emigrated from Eastern Europe. Her family moved to Los Angeles when Ferne was young...

, Bill Jacobson

Bill Jacobson

Bill Jacobson is an American photographer. He received a BFA from Brown University in 1977 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981.-Works:...

, Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns, Jr. is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.-Life:Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South Carolina with his paternal grandparents after his parents' marriage failed...

, Donald Judd

Donald Judd

Donald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy...

, Ron Kent

Ron Kent

Ron Kent, who is also known as Ronald E. Kent is an American woodturner who was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1931. He ran his own investment company in Hawaii. In 1975, his wife Myra gave him an inexpensive lathe for Christmas. Not wanting to seem unappreciative, he walked down to the beach and...

, William Kentridge

William Kentridge

William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two...

, Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz

Edward Kienholz

Edward Kienholz was an American installation artist whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. From 1972 onwards, he assembled much of his artwork in close collaboration with his artistic partner and wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz...

, Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism....

, Ken Little

Ken Little

Ken Dawson Little is a modernist San Antonio-based sculptor who was born in Canyon, Texas in 1947. After graduating from Texas Tech University in 1970 with a BFA in painting, he received an MFA from the University of Utah in 1972. There, his interest in painting waned in favor of ceramics. In...

, Tony Marsh

Tony Marsh (artist)

Tony Marsh is an American contemporary ceramic artist. He lives and works in Long Beach, California.-Biography:Born in New York City, New York, Marsh first learned about ceramics after he injured his rotator cuff playing baseball in his last year of high school...

, Junko Mori

Junko Mori

is a Japanese silversmith and a modernist metalwork sculptor. She was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1974. She graduated in from Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 1997 with her first BA in three-dimensional design. She then worked as a welder in a factory for one year...

, Yasumasa Morimura

Yasumasa Morimura

Yasumasa Morimura is a Japanese appropriation artist. He was born in Osaka and graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1978...

, Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....

, Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz

Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz, known as Vik Muniz , is a visual artist living in New York City.-Early career:Muniz began his career as a sculptor in the late 1980s after relocating from Brazil to Chicago and later to New York. His early work grew out of a post-Fluxus aesthetic and often involved...

, Jay Musler

Jay Musler

Jay Musler is an American glass artist who was born in Sacramento, California in 1949. From 1968 to 1971, he attended the California College of the Arts . He received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council...

, Ron Nagle

Ron Nagle

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, Otto and Gertrud Natzler

Otto Natzler

Otto Natzler was an Austrian–born ceramicist. With his wife Gertrud Natzler, he produced what were considered some of the most admired ceramic pieces of the 20th century.- Personal life :The son of Dr...

, Louise Nevelson

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Louise Nevelson was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in Czarist Russia, she emigrated with her family to the United States in the early 20th century when she was three years old. Nevelson learned English at school, as she...

, Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie is an American artist specializing in issues within documentary photography. Throughout her work she has investigated aspects of community, making portraits of many groups including LGBT community; surfers; and most recently high school football players. She is also interested in...

, Dennis Oppenheim, Otto Piene

Otto Piene

Otto Piene is a German artist. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Groton, Massachusetts.-Biography:...

, Kenneth Price

Kenneth Price

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, Lucie Rie

Lucie Rie

Dame Lucie Rie, DBE was an Austrian-born British studio potter.-Early life:Lucie Rie was born as Lucie Gomperz in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary the youngest child of Benjamin Gomperz, a Jewish medical doctor who was a consultant to Sigmund Freud. She had two brothers, Paul and Teddy...

, Liza Ryan

Liza Ryan

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, Alison Saar

Alison Saar

Alison Saar is an American artist who was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Laurel Canyon, California. Her parents were Betye Saar, a well-known African American artist, and Richard Saar, an art conservationist. Both parents encouraged their three daughters, all artists, to look at...

, Lucas Samaras

Lucas Samaras

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, Adrian Saxe

Adrian Saxe

Adrian Saxe is an American ceramic artist who was born in Glendale, California in 1943. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute from 1965 to 1969 and earned a B.F.A. degree at the California Institute of the Arts .Saxe’s early works were primarily site-specific sculpture that employed large...

, James Seawright

James Seawright

is a modernist sculptor who was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1936. As a boy, he discovered machine tools at a friend’s house, which launched his lifelong love of making objects by hand...

, Joseph Seigenthaler

Joseph Seigenthaler

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, Andres Serrano

Andres Serrano

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, David Smith

David Smith (sculptor)

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, Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith

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, Rudolf Staffel

Rudolf Staffel

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, Pat Steir

Pat Steir

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, Frank Stella

Frank Stella

Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant within the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.-Biography:...

, Jason Teraoka

Jason Teraoka

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, Masami Teraoka

Masami Teraoka

Masami Teraoka is a Japanese-American contemporary artist. His work includes ukiyo-e-influced woodcuts and paintings.-Life:Teraoka was born in the town of Onomichi in Hiroshima prefecture. He studied from 1954-59 at the Kwansei Gakuin University in Kobe, Japan where he received his B.A. in...

, Mark Tobey

Mark Tobey

Mark George Tobey was an American abstract expressionist painter, born in Centerville, Wisconsin. Widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe, Tobey is the most noted among the "mystical painters of the Northwest." Senior in age and experience, Tobey had a strong influence on the...

, Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle

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, Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos

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, Kara Walker

Kara Walker

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, Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

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, William Wegman

William Wegman (photographer)

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, Tom Wesselmann

Tom Wesselmann

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, Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood

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, Cindy Wright

Cindy Wright

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and Daisy Youngblood

Daisy Youngblood

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History

In addition to preserving art since 1940, the museum maintained the historic Spalding House and gardens. The Spalding House in Makiki

Makiki

Makiki is an area of Honolulu, Hawaii located northeast of downtown Honolulu generally stretching east to west from Punahou Street to Pensacola Street and north to south from Round Top Drive/Makiki Heights Drive to Lunalilo Freeway. Punchbowl, an extinct tuff cone, and Tantalus, tower over the...

Heights was built as a residence in 1925 by Anna Rice Cooke

Anna Rice Cooke

Anna Rice Cooke was a patron of the arts and the founder of the Honolulu Academy of Arts.-Biography:Anna Charlotte Rice was born on September 5, 1853 into a prominent missionary family on Oahu, Hawaii. Her father was teacher William Harrison Rice , and her mother was Mary Sophia Hyde. Anna grew...

, widow of Charles Montague Cooke

Charles Montague Cooke

Charles Montague Cooke was a businessman during the Kingdom of Hawaii, Republic of Hawaii and Territory of Hawaii.-Life:Charles Montague Cooke was born May 6, 1849 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father was Amos Starr Cooke co-founder of Castle & Cooke...

. At the same time, the Honolulu Academy of Arts

Honolulu Academy of Arts

The Honolulu Academy of Arts is an art museum in Honolulu in the state of Hawaii. Since its founding in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke and opening April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to over 40,000 works of art.-Description:...

was being built on the site of her former home on Beretania Street in Honolulu. The Makiki Heights home was designed by Hart Wood

Hart Wood

Hart Wood was an American architect who flourished during the "Golden Age" of Hawaiian architecture. He was one of the principal proponents of a distinctive "Hawaiian style" of architecture appropriate to the local environment and reflective of the cultural heritage of the islands...

and later enlarged by the firm of Bertram Goodhue

Bertram Goodhue

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was a American architect celebrated for his work in neo-gothic design. He also designed notable typefaces, including Cheltenham and Merrymount for the Merrymount Press.-Early career:...

and Associates. The Honolulu Academy of Arts acquired the estate as a bequest from Cooke's daughter, Alice Spalding, in 1968 and operated it as an annex for the display of Japanese prints from 1970 to 1978. A private developer in the late 1970s sold it to a subsidiary of The Honolulu Advertiser. In 1986, the Thurston Twigg-Smith

Thurston Twigg-Smith

-Biography:Twigg-Smith is a fifth generation Hawaii resident. He was born in 1921 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the son of William and Margaret Thurston Twigg-Smith , making him the great-great grandson of Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston as well as Lorrin Andrews — who were pioneer missionaries to the...

family converted it to The Contemporary Museum. Following interior renovation and the construction of the Milton Cades Pavilion, the museum opened to the public in October 1988. In addition to galleries, the museum consisted of a shop, cafe, administrative offices, storage and work areas, and a director residence..

The gardens were originally landscaped between 1928 and 1941 by Reverend K. H. Inagaki, a Christian minister of Japanese ancestry. From 1979-1980, the gardens were resuscitated by Honolulu landscape architect James C. Hubbard. During the 1990s, Kahaluu-based landscape architect Leland Miyano

Leland Miyano

Leland Miyano is an artist, landscape designer and author born and raised in Hawai'i. He received his Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa....

brought the gardens to their current state. The grounds display sculpture by Satoru Abe

Satoru Abe

Satoru Abe is an American sculptor and painter. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1926. He attended President William McKinley High School, where he took art lessons from Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell...

, Charles Arnoldi

Charles Arnoldi

Charles Arnoldi, also known as Chuck Arnoldi and as Charles Arthur Arnoldi is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. He was born April 10, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio....

, Deborah Butterfield

Deborah Butterfield

Deborah Kay Butterfield is an American sculptor. She divides her time between a ranch in Bozeman, Montana and studio space in Hawaii...

, Jedd Garet

Jedd Garet

Jedd Garet is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker who was born in 1955.Influenced by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, Garet uses garish colors in jarring contrasts to explore relationships between nature, man, and art. He combines human figures, classical architectural fragments...

, George Rickey

George Rickey

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, Toshiko Takaezu

Toshiko Takaezu

Toshiko Takaezu was an American ceramic artist.She was born to Japanese immigrant parents in Pepeekeo, Hawaii, in 1922. She studied at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and at the University of Hawaii under Claude Horan from 1948-1951...

, DeWain Valentine

DeWain Valentine

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and Arnold Zimmerman

Arnold Zimmerman

Arnold Zimmerman, also known as Arnie Zimmerman, is an American ceramic artist who was born December 13, 1954 in Poughkeepsie, New York. He received a bachelor's degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and a master’s degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He...

, and a wall painting by Paul Morrison

Paul Morrison (artist)

Paul Morrison is an English painter. He was born in Liverpool in 1966, and received a BA in fine art from Sheffield City Polytechnic. He then continued his studies at Goldsmiths College of Art in London, where he graduated with an MA in 1998. He also spent two years studying at Hugh Baird College...

.

Spalding House is located at 2411 Makiki Heights Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii

Honolulu, Hawaii

Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...

, coordinates 21°18′43"N 157°49′58"W.

Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center

A satellite facility located in downtown Honolulu in the First Hawaiian Center

First Hawaiian Center

First Hawaiian Center is the tallest building in Hawaii.-Description:Located at 999 Bishop Street in downtown Honolulu near Bishop Park, the First Hawaiian Center is the world corporate headquarters of First Hawaiian Bank, Hawaii's oldest bank and multi-billion dollar company established by Charles...

, the corporate headquarters of First Hawaiian Bank

First Hawaiian Bank

First Hawaiian Bank is a regional commercial bank headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii at the First Hawaiian Center. It is a subsidiary of BancWest Corporation, which itself is a subsidiary of the French banking company, BNP Paribas...

, opened in 1996. The exhibits focus on Hawaiian art and are underwritten by First Hawaiian Bank.

Merger with the Honolulu Academy of Arts

On May 2, 2011, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

ceased to exist as an independent entity. Its collections of more than 3,000 works of art, endowments and other assets were transferred to the Honolulu Academy of Arts

Honolulu Academy of Arts

. The Makiki Heights building reassumed its former name, Spalding House.

External links

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

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