Last month, the Orlando Museum of Art (Website) announced that they had received a major gift from Dr. James Cottrell and Mr. Joseph Lovett, longtime art patrons, social activists, and Manhattan residents.
The gift includes over 300 artworks from the duo’s extensive collection of downtown New York City and international artists from the past 50 years. The Cottrell-Lovett gift will be available to view at the museum this summer and Spring 2025.
Notable artists represented in the collection include Donald Baechler, Miguel Barcelo, Barton Lidice Beneš, Kwame Brathwaite, Sophie Calle, Jean Cocteau, Noël Dolla, Roland Flexner, Helen Frankenthaler, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Deborah Kass, Jonathan Lasker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Malcom Morley, and Dana Schutz.
This summer, a small exhibition titled Variations & Iterations: Exploring Art Series in Gifts from the Dr. James Cottrell & Mr. Joseph Lovett Collection will focus on a series within the collection of works already on-site at OMA.
