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Artists Collect: The Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong Private Collection
October 11 2008 - January 4 2009
Artists Collect offers the fascinating opportunity to explore the connection between two internationally known artistic personalities Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong, and the work that has influenced them. Over the years these two artists have amassed a fascinating collection that reveals their lifelong passion for the arts and their personal connections to an international art world.

 
     

Music City Picks: Choices from Cheekwood’s Collection
Jun 7-Sept 16, 2007
In a unique exhibition, Cheekwood invites fifty Nashville residents known in the world of sports, politics, music, and more to browse through the collection and choose their favorite work of art. Music City Picks will provide visitors with a fresh perspective of Cheekwood. Guest curators can choose from familiar images such as works by Andy Warhol or Red Grooms, or they can bring a lesser known work back to light, such as an early American portrait or modern photograph. Some of the guest curators participating include Andrea Conte, Red Grooms, Gordon Gee, Marty Stuart, Butch Spyridon, Demetria Kalodimos, Daron Hall, and Nancy Peterson.

 

     
The Matilda Geddings Gray Collection of Fabergé
April 2007 – Ongoing
Cheekwood's Museum of Art has been selected to house the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection, one of the world’s most significant compilation of Fabergé pieces. Pieces from the Collection have been exhibited worldwide. The Collection includes 57 rare pieces highlighted by three Russian Imperial Easter eggs, and a number of important functional items, fantasy items and floral works.