Russell Crotty

Born California 1956. Lives Malibu

MAM added one of Russell Crotty's globe drawings from our Russell Crotty - Globe Drawings exhibition in its New Work series to our permanent collection. In honor of long-standing MAM trustee Patricia Papper, MAM commissioned Crotty to create a globe of the night skies over the Everglades as a lasting tribute to Florida's unique natural resource.

“Some drawings are faithful observations of planets and stars. Others, like the globe with a meteor shower radiating over a silhouetted landscape—just completed for a show of his work at Miami Art Museum through June 27—are more romantic accounts of Mr. Crotty’s experience of a night and a place.”

--Hillarie M. Sheets, The New York Times

Venus, Jupiter, Canopus over Payahokee 2004
Ink and watercolor on paper on acrylic sphere
24-inches diameter

Collection Miami Art Museum, museum purchase with funds from the New Work series and from thirty-two donors in honor of Patricial Papper.

Toni and Carl Randolph, Daphne and Peter Farago, Lori and Milton Ferrell, Jane and Gerald Katcher, Joan and Irving Getz, Nedra and Mark Oren, Lynn Wolfson, Rhoda and Morris Levitt, Debra and Dennis Scholl, Elaine Baker, Jill and Harold Gaffin, Diane and Ernest Halpryn, Elaine and Shel Krasker, Carolyn and Leonard Miller, Gloria Scharlin, Lois Siegel, Frances Wolfson, Judy and Richard Wyman, Suzanne Delehanty, Rose Ellen Meyerhoff Greene and Gerald Greene, Helene and Adolph Berger, Judith and Jordan Bittel, Rosemary and Richard Furman, Ilene and Robert Gruder, Miriam and Ronald Hinds, Deborah and Larry Hoffman, Dorothy and Neil Koreman, Nancy and Norman Lipoff, Dorothy and Aaron Podhurst, Helyne and Kenneth Treister, Phillip Winter, Addy and José Castellanos