The Chazen Museum of Art is pleased to announce two summer exhibitions of collections being donated by couples with a special passion for art. A Shared Taste: The Janice and Jean-Pierre Golay Collection will be on view July 12–September 7, 2008, and Modernist Sculpture: The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection on view July 19–September 28, 2008. The Lane collection began in the late 1950s as a quest for a painting to hang over the couch, and it grew into a significant collection of twentieth-century American and European sculpture. Modernist sculptors were particularly interested in exploring the human form, the balance between representation and abstraction, and the interactions of painting and sculpture. The collection reflects these concerns and also how they transformed in the postwar period. The Lanes were also interested in assemblages made from found objects, and Alvin Lane, a lawyer, was fascinated with what he called the “tangible evidence of creativity”— sculptors’ preparatory drawings that led to the final three-dimensional works. Over three decades the Lanes acquired works by many important artists of the period, including Picasso, Magritte, Calder, John Chamberlain, Louise Nevelson, Joan Miró, and many others. Alvin Lane passed away in New York on September 13, 2007. He was an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison class of 1940, a devoted Chazen council member, and a generous donor to the museum. The Chazen will be honored to preserve and display Mr. and Mrs. Lane’s significant collection of modern art, which they have generously promised to the museum. Janice and Jean-Pierre Golay have collected art in Europe and America since the early 1980s, mostly in Switzerland and Wisconsin. They met when Jean-Pierre was in Madison on sabbatical from his native Switzerland, then married and lived in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1981 to 1988. Their desire to share art with others was nurtured at informal fêtes in the home of a dynamic and hospitable collector-friend. Inspired, the Golays’ built a collection that ranges from the delicately representative to the fully abstract, in various media from textiles and paintings to sculpture and prints. Returning to Madison, they generously volunteered with local visual arts organizations, working to bring people closer to art. In support of the Chazen, the Golays played a key role in creating a 1991 exhibition of Swiss art, and since 2003 they have graciously donated nearly 250 works from their collection. Though the works are diverse they are all thought-provoking, sometimes playful, and they reward contemplation. The Chazen is honored to share the Golays’ collection with a larger audience. A preview reception forA Shared Taste will be held on July 11, from 6:30–8:00 p.m., preceded by a discussion with the collectors at 5:30 in the Mayer Gallery. Generous support for this exhibition has been provided by Chazen Museum of Art Council, the Hilldale Fund, and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.