FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 2nd to November 20th

CAMBRIDGE, MASS., September 7, 2004- Hurst Gallery opens The Kepes Collection: Antiquities, Asian and Ethnographic Art, from the collection of Gyorgy & Juliet Appleby Kepes.

Hungarian artists with international reputations, the Kepeses were eclectic and enthusiastic collectors. The Kepes home off Brattle Street in Cambridge was filled with art from around the world. Their guests were surrounded by a profusion of cultures and media that informed the artists’ visions. Visitors to the Hurst Gallery exhibition will also have the opportunity to experience this aspect of the Kepes legacy, including Indian miniatures, Pre-Columbian art, Chinese paintings, Japanese folk art, Asian ceramics, Graeco-Roman pottery, and tribal art from Africa and the Pacific.

Gyorgy Kepes was active in the Germany studio of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and the New Bauhaus. The painter and graphic designer also authored Language of Vision (1944) and The New Landscape in Art and Science (1956), among other books. Kepes was professor of visual design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for almost 30 years. He founded The Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in 1964 and was its director for the next decade. Juliet Appleby Kepes was an artist and collaborated with her husband. She also illustrated seventeen children’s books, including the Caldecott Medal winner, Five Little Monkeys (1952).

For more information about this and future exhibits, please contact the Gallery. Images and price lists are also available.