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Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds, as well as his large-scale sculptures and restorations of forgotten historic homes. Slonem’s works can be found in the permanent collections of 250 museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Hunt Slonem tends to embrace the ephemeral beauty of nature, a characteristic that brings a nurturing, spiritual effect to his creations. Throughout his extensive career as a New York artist, Slonem has favored the subject of exotic birds, rabbits, and butterflies. Lately, his compositions have consisted of flat spaces with simple forms pushed to the front of the picture plane. The artist creates exotic forms with expressive and highly textural brushstrokes that are full of intense color, loosely inspired by artists of the German Expressionism movement such as Ernst Ludwig and Emil Nolde.

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MUSEUMS

Academy of the Arts, Easton, Maryland
American Banaco, New York, NY
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Artbank Program, United States Department of State, Washington D.C.
Bahrain National Museum, Bahrain UAE
Baker Museum, Naples, FL.
Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL.
Bates College Museum of Arts, Olin Art Center, Lewiston, ME
Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY
Bowdoin Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Brandeis University Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Alexander Breast Gallery, Jacksonville University Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Children’s Museum of Naples, Naples, FL
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Colegio de Architecto, Quito, Ecuador
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Coral Springs Museum, Coral Springs, FL
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN
Danville Museum, Danville, VA
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Delgado University, New Orleans, LA
Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Detroit, MI
Drury Univ., Springfield, MO
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Farnsworth Library & Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, FL
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Guilin Art Museum, Guilin Guang XI P.R. China
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Norway
Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT
Human Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Jedco, Jefferson Parrish, LA
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design of Kansas City Art Institute, MO
Jefferson Performing Art Center, Metairie, LA
J. Patrick Lannan Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL
Le Musée d’Art Haitian, Port au Prince, Haiti
The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
Louisiana Arts & Science Museum, Baton Rouge
Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, VA
Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, TX.
Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippine

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Miami-Dade Community College South Campus, Miami, FL
Miami University, Oxford, OH
Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, PA
Mills College Art Museum, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Miro Foundation, Spain
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Miss.
Missouri State University, Springfield
University of Missouri, Columbia
Mita Corporation, Fairfield, NJ
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Neuberger Museum, Purchase College/State University of New York, Purchase
Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Northfield Nt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, MA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Ohio Wesleyan Univ. Delaware, OH
Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Ozark Community Technical College, Springfield
Port Authority, One World Trade Center (Mural), New York, NY
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Pulitzer Collection, Amsterdam, Holland
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Saint Louis University, Cupples House & McNamee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Saint Mary’s College, Saint Mary City, MD
Saint Petersburg Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL
Samford University, Birmingham, AL
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Salt Queen Foundation, Southampton, NY
Sidney Art Gallery and Museum, Port Orchard, WA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse, NY
Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
The Taubman Museum of Art, West Virginia, Roanoke, VA
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
United States Department of State, Washington, D.C.
University of Arizona, Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
University of Maine at Machias Art Galleries, Machias, ME
University of Michigan, Art Museum Project, Dearborn, MI
University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Art Center, Norman, OK
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Von Leibig Art Center, Naples, FL
Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Wurth Museum, Kunzelsau, Germany