The Harn Museum of Art will present Florida in the Frame: A Century of Artists’ Reflections on the Sunshine State as part of a year-long celebration of its 35th anniversary in 2025 – 2026. The exhibition explores Florida’s art, history, and culture through roughly 125 paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, and photographs drawn from The Florida Art Collection, Gift of Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers. The works on view will span the mid-19th to the mid-20th century and will represent more than 100 artists. These include many prominent figures in American art such as Milton Avery, Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, John Singer Sargent, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and N.C. Wyeth.
Florida in the Frame will survey a century of artists’ renderings of Florida and will investigate how these diverse images evoke and respond to the state’s natural resources, its history, and the popular culture of its recent past. The selected paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, and photographs will be organized along three broad themes: “Visualizing Florida,” “Expanding Cities,” and “Popular Destinations.” In addition, printed materials such as literature and the popular press, on loan from local collections, will contribute to the dialogue surrounding these topics.