Held Over Through December 31, 2010

Wells Fargo Advisors
Brings Contemporary Artwork to LMFA

Wells Fargo Advisors LLC is proud to sponsor an extensive exhibit of artwork from our corporate art collection. “Contemporary Selections from the Wells Fargo Art Collection” will be displayed at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts during the “Night at the Museum” event to be held Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, from 7 – 9 pm.

This exhibit, which consists of 60 pieces selected jointly by Renee Hawkins, Longview Museum of Fine Arts Executive Director, and Shelley Hagen, Wells Fargo Art Collection Curator, spans the latter portion of the last century and features artists from all over the world, including artists who pioneered major stylistic art movements.

We are simply thrilled to have the opportunity to share these important works of art with the Longview community. These pieces offer a stunning sampling of the many significant works and stylistic movements created by artists during the late 20th century. We are confident that visitors will enjoy exploring this visual journey.

A few examples from the Wells Fargo exhibit illustrate the broad and varied scope of the collection. Artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, pioneers of Pop Art in the 1950s and ‘60s who each explored popular imagery and used printmaking as a vehicle to reach wider audiences, sparked the printmaking renaissance in the early 1960s. In his piece titled Still Life with Red Jar, Lichtenstein reinterprets the still-life tradition with a bold and playful visual Pop vocabulary. Jacob Lawrence, one of the first African-American artists to have a solo exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, uses his hallmark style of broad areas of flat color in Supermarket-Flora. Helen Frankenthaler, who emerged in the 1950s second wave of Abstract Expressionists, showcases her technique of ‘stain painting’ in her piece, titled Eve.

Artist Robert Motherwell, whose father, Robert Motherwell, served as the president of Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Company from 1935-1943, was among the youngest of the Abstract Expressionists who revolutionized painting in the 1940s and caused a shift in the art world from Paris to New York. In his piece, Razor’s Edge, Motherwell employs one of Picasso’s favored printmaking methods: the sugar-lift aquatint technique, which preserves the artist’s brushwork and enables the creation of broad areas of color instead of narrow lines.

Many international artists are also featured in the exhibit, such as Mario Algaze, whose photograph, Por libreta, Santiago de Cuba, is from a portfolio of images that Algaze took in Cuba, which he visited in 1999 for the first time since leaving in 1960. Artist Tracey Moffatt offers a powerful image, Up in the Sky, drawn from her experiences as an Aborigine woman in Australian culture.

Wells Fargo & Company maintains a collection of art that includes a wide variety of media, such as paintings, photography, works on paper, and vintage posters. Our firm began building its Corporate Art Collection in the mid-1960s to serve as a resource for employees: a cultural mirror that would reflect the firm’s long and diverse history in St. Louis and beyond. In 1991, the firm created the Traveling Art Exhibition Program (TAEP), encouraging its branch offices to partner with local art institutions to bring selections of the corporate collection to their communities. Since the program’s inception in 1991, the firm’s traveling exhibition program has brought artwork and sponsorship to more than 90 institutions nationwide. The Wells Fargo exhibit will be on display at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts, which is located at 215 East Tyler Street, Longview, Texas from September 14 – December 18, 2010.

Dave L. Spurrier, CFP® Senior Vice President – Investments is the Branch Manager of the Longview, Texas office of Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC and can be reached at 903-295-8646.