The Guennol Collection

de Diana Fane

"The Guennol Collection: Cabinet of Wonders celebrates the wide-ranging vision of Alastair Bradley Martin and his wife, Edith Park Martin, whose gifts and loans to the Brooklyn Museum of Art have greatly enriched the Museum’s collections and installations. Peerless pre-Col[u]mbian and Asian jade carvings, ancient Egyptian sculptures, American folk art, and exceptional works by Albert Pinkham Ryder and Joseph Cornell are all found within the Martins’ remarkable collection. In addition to paintings, sculptures, and drawings, this exhibition of more than 100 works of art will include textiles and objects made of stone, feathers, gold, bronze, and wood.... The exhibition brings together, for the first time, long-term Guennol loans to the Museum, over forty works that the Martins have given to the BMA[,] and objects from the Martin family collections in order to examine the logic and aesthetic of the collection as a whole, and to address issues of connoisseurship"--Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1995-2003. 2000, 003-5.