‘R. Valentino,’ Oil on canvas, 2014, Gift of Henry and Pat Shane made possible by Harmon-Meek Gallery, Florida Southern College Collection.

A perennial audience favorite, Hunt Slonem is known as the painter of bunnies, but his body of work includes so much more. Slonem’s heavily-impastoed, brightly-colored paintings have delighted visitors across the world — and to our Museum — for decades. In fact, in our collection alone, we hold an incredible 40 paintings by Slonem, each of which exemplifies the breadth of his career while also underlining the immediate recognizability of his inimitable style. This buoyant Summer exhibition promises a visual Neo-Expressionist feast like no other and embraces the familiar (yes, there will be bunnies!) alongside the lesser known sides of Slonem’s oeuvre, including portraits of celebrities, presidents, and the artists’ acquaintances as well as a few surprises like Slonem’s religious iconography dating back as early as the 1970s. Literary, political, and zoological, and everything in between, Slonem’s cast of characters and tactile paintings promise a Summer of fun in our galleries.