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An Investment in Pleasure: Fifty Years of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens Collection
Sep 27, 2026 - Jan 10, 2027
Presented by: Joe Orgill Family Fund for Exhibitions
Organized by: Dixon Gallery and Gardens
In January 1976, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens opened to the public with a small but very choice collection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century European and American paintings and sculpture. Immediately, our institution's leaders set out to build upon that strong foundation by carefully adding important works that help tell a more well-rounded story of the development of modern art. That spirit continues today at the Dixon, where our collection now numbers about 2,000 objects. The capstone of our fiftieth anniversary year, An Investment in Pleasure, celebrates the story of the Dixon's collection, from Margaret and Hugo Dixon's generous bequest to landmark acquisitions in the 1990s to the transformative Curator's Circle program founded in 2016.
Sponsored by:
- The Scheidt Family Foundation
- Anonymous | Susan and Damon Arney | Debbie and Richard Binswanger | Kathy and Jack Blair | Kate and Michael Buttarazzi | Holly and Paul T. Combs | William B. “Billy” Dunavant, Jr. Foundation | Theodore W. and Betty J. Eckels Foundation | Andrea and Doug Edwards | Marylon Rogers Glass | Amanda and Nick Goetze | Julie and Rob Hussey | Anne and Mike Keeney | Mark Lavender and Guy Sellars | Debbie and Chip Marston | Mabel and Phil McNeill | Betty and Jack Moore | Snow and Henry Morgan | Nancy and Steve Morrow | Irene Orgill | Linda Pelts | Lyn and Bill Reed | Chris and Dan Richards | Irene and Fred Smith | Kaki and Vince Smith | Susan Adler Thorp | Ainslie and Hardy Todd | Adele Wellford Neville and Warfield Williams
