Waterworks Exhibition Brings Masterpieces from Private Art Collection to Salisbury, North Carolina
Waterworks Visual Arts Center has announced a yearlong exhibition of paintings and sculptures from the private collection of the late New York philanthropists Julian and Josie Robertson.
“Never Before Seen…Modern Masterpieces” will include forty works by 28 leading European modernists, including such greats as Kandinsky, Monet, Picasso, and de Kooning. Spanning more than a century of art history, the exhibition will introduce viewers to several pivotal movements from French Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism. The show is on view through August 30, 2025.
Julian and Josie Robertson began collecting art in the 1980s, after Julian founded the hedge fund Tiger Management. His success with Tiger not only enabled the couple to build their collection, but also to become two of the nation’s top philanthropists. Together, the Robertsons supported a wide range of causes, including medical science, education, the environment, and the arts, as well organizations combatting poverty.
Although many of these initiatives were national or even global in scale, the Robertsons never forgot Salisbury, the town where Julian was born and raised. It was here that he learned the importance of community from his parents, Blanche and Julian Robertson, both of whom were active members of the town’s church and civic life. Blanche was also instrumental in the establishment of Waterworks as a regionally recognized organization in the late 1970s.
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