Mich. exhibition honors sculpture collectors Fred and Lena Meijer
View of Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. Photo by William J. Hebert.
The gallery exhibition “Sculptors Celebrate the Legacy of Fred and Lena Meijer” opens today, June 4, and runs through Jan. 2, 2011.
The work of 26 artists is being displayed.
The exhibition also is part of a 15th anniversary celebration for the Grand Rapids attraction. Frederik Meijer Gardens opened in 1995 and was renamed Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in 2002.
Frederik Meijer helped grow the Midwest retail chain Meijer Inc. He and Lena Meijer have been married since 1946.
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ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE
Louis Bourgeois, The Fragile, 2007; and Magdalena Abakanowicz, Seated Child, 1989. Photo by Chuck Heiney.
Philip Grausman, Heather, 2009; Bill Woodrow, Revelator 4, 2006; and Dietrich Klinge, Gordian IX, 2009. Photo by Chuck Heiney
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Knife Ship 1:12, 2008; Mimmo Paladino, Elmo 2007. Photo by Chuck Heiney
Lena and Fred Meijer.
