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The Conversation Continues

Highlights from the James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett Collection

The Orlando Museum of Art
September 16, 2016 – January 1, 2017

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The Orlando Museum of Art

Highlights from the James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett Collection

For more than 40 years, James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett have been building an exceptional collection of contemporary art. It is a collection that not only represents many prominent artists of the period, but also reflects the collectors’ passion for discovering new talent and making commitments to challenging work before it is critically proven. Their high regard for the artists they collect is often demonstrated by long personal friendships and a practice of collecting an artist’s work in depth over time.

Read more at OMART.org


An excerpt from “The Conversation Continues”

By Sue Scott

We were talking about Barton Benes, who was a very dear friend from our 20’s. He died at the age of 69. We were very close and talked together almost every day for years, decades actually. We had a great deal of his work. After I got over the shock and the terror of his decline and eventually his death, I realized that the conversation continued, because his work was everywhere. And wherever I saw his work, I would think of his incredible sense of humor and his take on life and realize that he was still with us through his work. Of course he’s there in my memory, but in his work there was something very tangible…and not so tangible. And that the conversation really continues, even after death…

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Opening Reception at OMA

A chat with Jim Cottrell, Joe Lovett & Sue Scott


The Conversation Continues

Installation at OMA

Exhibition photos courtesy of Raymond Martinot.

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Exhibitions

  • True Colors • 2022
  • The Figurative Continuum • 2019
  • Radical • 2019
  • The Conversation Continues • 2016
  • Landscape of the Mind Exhibition • 2015
  • Before And Happily Ever After • 2012
  • Malcolm Morley • 2012
  • Bigger Than Life • 2012

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