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Currier & Ives, American Forest Scene/Maple Sugaring, 1856. Lithograph (after a painting by A.F. Tait), 18 11/16 x 27 in. Collection of Dorrance Kelly Currier & Ives, A Midnight Race on the Mississippi, 1860. Lithograph (F.F. Palmer on stone from a sketch by H.D. Manning), 18 7/16 x 28 1/8 in. Collection of Dorrance Kelly Nov. 12, 2011 - Apr. 29, 2012 Currier & Ives: Impressions of America will contain approximately twenty of Currier & Ives’ most iconic and highly-prized prints from the private collection of Dr. Dorrance Kelly. Frequently referred to as the “Printers for the People,” Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives took advantage of what was then the newly-invented process of lithography to make ownership of full-color images possible for the general public. Imported to the United State in the 1820s from Bavaria, lithography allowed for a quick and relatively cheap production of prints using limestone as the printing surface. With over 7,500 different images in...

Spring Rain, 1912, Oil On Canvas, 20 ¼ X 26 Inches, Delaware Art Museum, Gift Of The John Sloan Memorial Foundation, 1986 This is the first major traveling exhibition to focus on John Sloan's images of New York and the first since the 1970s to present significant scholarship on the artist. Comprised of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs, the exhibition presents a nuanced view of the artist's years in the city and the city's effect on his art. Far from glamorizing emerging vertical vistas of skyscrapers, Sloan focuses instead on people, street life, elevated trains, public spaces, and the pedestrian experience. His work reflects his own experience as he walked the city's neighborhoods and observed human dramas played out in the streets and apartments. This exhibition draws on the abundance of material in its own collection, supplemented with loans of major Sloan works from both public and private collections. The Westmoreland is one of only 4 venues this exhibi...

Malcolm Parcell (1896-1987), Portrait Of Helen Gallagher, 1943 Pennsylvania has held a prominent place in the advancement of American painting since the dynasty of the Peale family in the early decades of the 18th century. Exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Carnegie Museum of Art, along with nationally recognized studio art programs at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) played an important role in the American art scene in the opening decades of the 20th Century. This period in American art was an extremely energetic, creative and quickly changing one with artists addressing a barrage of new styles defined by abstraction and modernism. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the instruction and works of such Pennsylvania artists as George Hetzel, Thomas Anshutz, and Thomas Eakins set the stage for Robert Henri, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Mary Cassatt,...

Homer Dodge Martin Saranac Lake (Morning), ca. 1857 Oil on canvas This spring The Blanton Museum is pleased to present American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting, featuring 116 paintings from the Hudson River School, a loose collective of artists working in upstate New York from 1825-1875, whose works comprised America’s first native artistic style. Artists included in the Hudson River School, and represented in The Blanton’s presentation, are Thomas Cole, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Asher B. Durand, Frederic Edwin Church, John Frederick Kensett, and John William Casilear, among others. Assembled from a single private collection, this touring exhibition is organized by the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. This new exhibition features paintings by Hudson River School artists thematically arranged in pairs, series, and groups to emphasize certain collective ideas. These artists shared a belief in natural religio...

William Robinson Leigh The Roping, 1914 Oil on canvas The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents Go West! Representations of the American Frontier, an exhibition exploring the pioneering American West as both a physical terrain and an idea deeply rooted in the American psyche. On view January 14 through September 23, 2012, the exhibition features paintings, sculptures and works on paper made in, and about, the American West by Henry Farny, Charles Russell, Maynard Dixon, and other artists from The Blanton’s celebrated C.R. Smith Collection of Art of the American West, in the largest installation of this collection in over a decade. Works of related content from the museum’s holdings by Jerry Bywaters, Frederic Remington and others, and a selection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century American prints supplement the installation, along with borrowed works from the University’s Harry Ransom Center and Briscoe Center for American History. “Go West! ...

Charles-Joesph Natoire Neptune and Amphritrite, ca. 1730s Black chalk with brush and brown wash and white heightening on blue laid paper The Suida-Manning Collection Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art and French Art from NYU's Collection open at NYU's Grey Art Gallery on April 17, 2012 Charles-Antoine Coypel France Thanking Heaven for the Recovery of Louis XV, ca. 1744 Black and white chalks with brush and gray wash and touches of red chalk on cream antique laid paper The Suida-Manning Collection Throughout history artists have sought new and innovative ways to tell stories through visual means. Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art, on view at New York University's Grey Art Gallery from April 17 through July 14, 2012, presents French perspectives on dramatic narrative from the 16th through 19th centuries. Biblical, historical, mythological, and contemporary characters abound in drawings by...

Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). Sheet with a Self-portrait and Studies of the Artist's Hand and a Pillow, 1493. Pen and iron gall ink; 10 15/16 x 7 15/16 in. (27.8 x 20.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.862) Dürer and Beyond, Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700, April 3–September 3, 2012, presents a selection of 100 works from the Metropolitan Museum's outstanding collection of German, Swiss, Austrian, and Bohemian drawings. Featured are numerous drawings by Albrecht Dürer, including his celebrated study sheet with a self-portrait. In addition to drawings by major artists such as Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Altdorfer, Urs Graf, Hans Holbein the Younger, Friedrich Sustris, and Wenceslaus Hollar, the selection also highlights work by lesser known but equally superb draftsmen from the 14th to the end of the 17th century. https://gluwhite-platinum.blogspot.com/ https://gluwhite2022.blogspot...