
"Beyond the Bombshell," the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden + Museum’s first 2025 exhibition, celebrates America’s 20th century golden girl, Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009). Partnering with the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, Fawcett’s nephew in Houston, and the Farrah Fawcett Foundation in Los Angeles, the major exhibition introduces Fawcett to new generations while offering seasoned fans previously unseen views into her artistic and theatrical life.
The UMLAUF possesses a trove of archival material from the Corpus Christi native and Charlie’s Angels star from the course of her long friendship with her mentor, Charles Umlauf (1910-1994). After studying with Professor Umlauf at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1960s, she befriended him and his wife Angeline, visiting their private Austin home throughout the 1970s and 1980s. She even visited the “new” public UMLAUF Sculpture Garden + Museum in the early 1990s.
The UMLAUF archives include a treasured collection of letters, photographs, and documents from that long relationship, in addition to many sculptures and drawings by Umlauf of his former student. Viewers will see his bronze Young Farrah, wearing the hairstyle she said she preferred: pulled back and away from her face, in addition to sculptures from the post-Charlie’s Angels era.
"Beyond the Bombshell" features Fawcett memorabilia - dolls, cartoons, “Farrah’s Glamour Center,” a skateboard, magazine covers and clippings, and, of course, the infamous red swimsuit poster that adorned the walls of so many Americans. Some of the archival objects on view include four typewritten scripts (from roles she played) that feature Farrah’s distinctive handwriting as she engages in dialogue with the written prompts from directors and screenwriters.
The exhibition will remain on display through June 1.
"Beyond the Bombshell," the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden + Museum’s first 2025 exhibition, celebrates America’s 20th century golden girl, Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009). Partnering with the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, Fawcett’s nephew in Houston, and the Farrah Fawcett Foundation in Los Angeles, the major exhibition introduces Fawcett to new generations while offering seasoned fans previously unseen views into her artistic and theatrical life.
The UMLAUF possesses a trove of archival material from the Corpus Christi native and Charlie’s Angels star from the course of her long friendship with her mentor, Charles Umlauf (1910-1994). After studying with Professor Umlauf at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1960s, she befriended him and his wife Angeline, visiting their private Austin home throughout the 1970s and 1980s. She even visited the “new” public UMLAUF Sculpture Garden + Museum in the early 1990s.
The UMLAUF archives include a treasured collection of letters, photographs, and documents from that long relationship, in addition to many sculptures and drawings by Umlauf of his former student. Viewers will see his bronze Young Farrah, wearing the hairstyle she said she preferred: pulled back and away from her face, in addition to sculptures from the post-Charlie’s Angels era.
"Beyond the Bombshell" features Fawcett memorabilia - dolls, cartoons, “Farrah’s Glamour Center,” a skateboard, magazine covers and clippings, and, of course, the infamous red swimsuit poster that adorned the walls of so many Americans. Some of the archival objects on view include four typewritten scripts (from roles she played) that feature Farrah’s distinctive handwriting as she engages in dialogue with the written prompts from directors and screenwriters.
The exhibition will remain on display through June 1.
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Admission is free with RSVP.