![]() ![]() The Peck Collection started as a collaboration between Sheldon and his late brother Harvey and continued as a joint interest shared with Leena. He and Leena enjoyed distinguished careers as prominent orthodontic specialists and educators in the Boston area. Sheldon Peck, a native of Durham, North Carolina, is a double alumnus of the University, receiving his undergraduate degree from Carolina in 1963 and his doctorate from the UNC School of Dentistry in 1966. Click below to see past installations.įocus on the Peck Collection installations At least one example from the collection is always on view at the Museum, but because these works of art on paper are light-sensitive, we rotate a select number of drawings with other objects from our permanent collection in an ongoing display called Focus on the Peck Collection. In January 2017, the Ackland Art Museum received its largest gift to date when Sheldon Peck (UNC-Chapel Hill, BS ’63, DDS ’66) and his wife Leena donated their extraordinary collection of 134 mostly 17th-century Dutch and Flemish master drawings, as well as significant funds for the stewardship of the collection, new acquisitions, and an endowed curatorial position in European and American art before 1950. ![]() This Focus on the Peck Collection installation places Gainsborough’s Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cattle of around 1780 together with two Dutch landscape drawings by Roelant Roghman and Joris van der Haagen from the Peck Collection, presenting an opportunity to compare the ways in which the English artist adapted earlier Netherlandish themes, motifs, and technique to suit his own drawing style. He became passionate about drawing and found lifelong pleasure in depicting the British countryside, fondly recalling his earliest attempts of the subject as his “first imitations of little Dutch Landskips.” Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) is best known as one of England’s most successful eighteenth-century portrait painters, but like many of his fellow English artists, he was inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes. ![]()
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