MIAMI, FLORIDA.- The Lowe Art Museum presents "Manhattan Stories: Enduring Legacy," on view through December 1, 2002. The exhibition commemorates the anniversary of September 11, 2001 with images that demonstrate New York City’s enduring artistic legacy. The show was curated by Denise Gerson.
From its origins in three classrooms in 1948, the history of the Lowe Art Museum reflects an unswerving commitment to fulfill its mission to serve the University of Miami as a teaching resource, and the residents of and visitors to greater Miami as its major general art museum.
The Lowe’s success in fulfilling its mission is confirmed by an extraordinary and ongoing outpouring of support for the museum and its collections. With the gift in 1950 by philanthropists Joe and Emily Lowe, a free-standing museum facility opened to the public in 1952, the first art museum in South Florida. It’s 10,000–object collection is one of the most important in the southeast, with strengths in Renaissance and Baroque, American, Native American, pre–Columbian, and Asian art.
