The Joys of Collecting: Selections from the Eisen Collection

The UNF Department of Art and Design present selections from the collection of Judy Eisen and the late Dr. Saul Eisen.

If one word were used to describe the Eisen’s collection, it would have to be quality. Many of the artists’ names represented here are well known to the museum-going public: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist. Robert Motherwell, Richard Diebenkorn, Jean Dubuffet and Lucien Freud. The works of these artists are in many important museums, and their works on display are united by being highly characteristic of their styles and movements, which range from Pop Art to Art Brut to abstract and figural expressionism.

The subject matter of the Eisen Collection is delightfully varied. It ranges from the whimsical and fantastic as can be seen in One of Five Seamen by Hundertwasser, Goldyne’s Gare St Lazare; Giacometti’s Rolling Stock on Monet’s Track and Desmaziéres’ Terre Inconnue. Some subjects, seemingly mundane, such as John’s Target with Plaster Casts, Clemente’s Seeds (actually capitalized letters scattered over the surface of the etching) or Thiebaud’s Eyeglasses of various sizes and shapes, are elevated and transformed by the artists’ inventiveness.

The selections shown here reflect the couple’s joy of collecting. Guided by trusted gallery advisors, their own instincts and careful research, the Eisen Collection is truly of museum quality.