Where's the Rest of Florida?

While you're at the "All Florida Invitational," you'll probably be tempted to stroll back to the rear first-floor galleries, where you'll find "Boca Raton Collects: The Modernist Spirit Within Private Collections," featuring about 50 pieces from the collections of Gabriel Auerbach and Mr. and Mrs. Eli Plotch.

It's an oh-so-tasteful show that's also a bit bland. A straightforward, impressionist-style portrait of The Artist's Wife and Daughter (c. 1920) by William James Glackens stands out near the entrance, and a pleasing Thomas Hart Benton ink drawing of a female nude called The Apple of Discord (1947) is tucked away in back.

Gary Bolding's Self Portrait in Front of a Brice Marden Painting (1995-96) is one of the strongest works in the invitational

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On display through September 2, 561-392-2500

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Mizner Park, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton

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But the real treasure here is an uncharacteristically small 1862 oil called The Fishing Fleet by Albert Bierstadt, who was born in Germany but moved to America as a child and specialized in grandly romantic visions of his adopted country. Here he turns his eye for the nuances of sunlight to a shore at sunrise, and the results are breathtaking. It's easily the best thing in "Boca Raton Collects" and just as easily a match for the best pieces in the "50th Annual All Florida Invitational."