Messenger - Vol. 2, No. 1, Page 12 Fall 1992 Dali decks the gallery A series of prints of playing cards by Salvador Dali are among the almost 200 works of art acquired by the University Gallery since last October. The acquisitions, received through donations and purchases, range from prints to sculptures, from antique to contemporary works. Among the gifts received this year are photography by Ansel Adams; small sculptures or maquettes by William Zorach; a 1937 photograph of orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski by Ray Jones; 37 Russian and Greek icons from Leslie Burgess and Sarah Jastak-Burgess of Wilmington; and an 18th-century, Ukranian icon from another donor. The donations help the gallery fulfill its role as an art center and teaching facility, says curator Belena Chapp. The reputation of the gallery is growing, she says, thanks to such shows as the successful "Brandywine Valley to the Bay: Art from Private Collections" exhibition last fall and the "University of Delaware Biennial Works on or of Paper," a juried exhibition at the gallery that is national in scope. The funds generated from the works on paper show enabled the gallery to purchase 14 works from the exhibition for its permanent collection, such as the Rob Evans multimedia work, "Boundary Lines," Chapp says. "Donors, who are art lovers, appreciate the fact that their gifts have a dual role," Chapp says. "Not only are works of art cared for properly and displayed in appropriate settings, both here and on loan to other institutions, but they also are used for educational purposes in training students in a variety of fields, such as art, art history, anthropology, museum studies and history. "The students learn museum standards and get hands-on experience in conservation, research, cataloging and mounting exhibitions," she says. --Sue Swyers Moncure