Art News

Florida Museum Receives Monumental Louise Nevelson Installation

NAPLES, FL.- The Naples Museum of Art in Florida has received, through a generous corporate gift, Louise Nevelson’s largest sculpture installation and her last major work, Dawn’s Forest. Commissioned and owned by Georgia-Pacific LLC and MetLife for the Georgia-Pacific Center in Atlanta, Dawn’s Forest has been part of a corporate collection since it was created in the 1980s and has never been shown in a museum setting. It is Nevelson’s largest and most complex sculptural environment, containing elements culled from previous works dating to 1971. The Naples Museum of Art will unveil the monumental installation, which consists of a dozen individual sculptures, in October. “We are honored and grateful to be the recipient of this important work and to show it to the world,” said Naples Museum of Art founder Myra Janco Daniels. “It’s a perfect fit for our