A gift from artist, collector, and philanthropist Carol Cole Levin will transform the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s first-floor wing into the Cole Levin Center for Art and Human Understanding. This major gift of close to $5 million comprises artwork from her extensive collection as well as funding for building renovations and programming. As part of her gift, some 270 artworks by more than 140 artists, including works Levin created, will become part of the museum’s collection. Learn more at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.
Portrait of Carol Cole Levin in her studio with her artwork (created under the name Carol Cole), photo by Carolyn de Berry. Left to right: Mother Earth (after Lee Lozano), 2008; The Grand Nanny, 2015; and When the Saint Goes Marching In, 1996. Photograph by Carolyn de Berry. All images courtesy of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro.
Gallery Images: Marcel Duchamp, Le Surrealisme en 1947, 1947. Multiple of foam rubber breast, velvet, and printed label mounted on cover from an illustrated book of lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, photogravure, and ready-made object, 10 x 8 ½ x 2 ½ in. Promised gift to the Weatherspoon Art Museum from the Carol Cole Levin Collection © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2024
Carol Cole, The Dissection of ANI, 1993. Clay, embroidery thread, linen, silk, and satin, 10 5/8 x 13 x 4 in. Promised gift to the Weatherspoon Art Museum from the Carol Cole Levin Collection © Carol Cole, photography by C. Timothy Barkley
Judy Chicago, Marie Antoinette, 2017. Four color lithograph on cotton paper, 26 1/2 x 26 in. Promised gift to the Weatherspoon Art Museum from the Carol Cole Levin Collection © 2024 Judy Chicago / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York