Generations: the Helen Cox Kersting Collection of Southwestern Cultural Arts May 24, 2010

The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art presents 'Generations: The Helen Cox Kersting Collection of Southwestern Cultural Arts.' The collection, gifted to the museum in 2008, has been formed over two generations and explores works from ancient times to the present, in many cases presenting work by multiple generations of Native artists. The focus of the collection is on art from the Navajo and Pueblo cultures done from the late nineteenth century to the present. The Eiteljorg Museum will also release a book of the same title. The volume illustrates in color the nearly 800 objects in the Kersting collection, including pottery, jewelry, baskets, katsinas dolls, Navajo weavings, and other objects. The book includes essays by James Nottage, Chief Curatorial officer of the Eiteljorg, Diane F. Pardue, curator of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, and Dr. Bruce Bernstein, Executive Director of the Santa Fe Indian Market.