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A Florida Legacy: Sam and Robbie Vickers’ transformational gift to the Harn Museum of Art

Here is the video on The Florida Art Collection, an extensive collection of Florida-themed paintings, drawings, and watercolors that includes many prominent American artists from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries including paintings by such celebrated artists as Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent gifted by Samuel and Roberta Vickers as the collection transitions from their North Florida home to the Harn Museum of Art.

Shoutout to everyone who assisted me and my team in helping tell the story behind this collection.

Creative Director - David Houder

Editor - Brenton Richardson

Audio/Video Recordings by:

Tom Bacsick

Alex Baucom

Aaron Daye

Ray Hays

David Houder

Brenton Richardson

The Vickers Family Art Collection Arrives at the Harn Museum

It’s moving day and the massive collection of Florida art has arrived at the Harn Museum of Art. Thanks to an extraordinary donation from Sam and Robbie Vickers, their once-private collection has found its public “forever home” at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida. Over a few days, I was able to document the behind the scenes process as Harn staff excitedly welcomed a truckload of more than 1,200 drawings, oil paintings, and watercolors — the largest single art collection ever gifted to the university.

A Florida Legacy: Samuel and Roberta Vickers Home of Art

Over several decades, native Floridians Sam and Roberta “Robbie” Vickers have amassed a stunning art collection that captures the sunshine and shadows of the state’s past. Now, they are giving their collection of over 1,200 pieces of Florida-based works of art dating from the early 1800s to the mid-20th century, the collection includes masterpieces by Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Moran, and Martin Johnson Heade — some of the greatest names in American art — to the University of Florida Harn Museum of Art. Here is a look at the art-filled rooms of the Vickers family collection at the couple’s home on the banks of the St. John’s River.

Sam Vickers: Public Space and Individual Paranoia

Coincidences

The Sacrifice of Modernism        collage

Monument to the EU

“The Orwellian aspect to much of the recent work is evident in the use of psycho-geographic ideas. Much of Orwell’s power as a writer lies in how his characters are affected by their surroundings and the constant fear of betraying their inner truths.  The four images in the collection represent real or imagined public…