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MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS AND NEWS NATIONWIDE
NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM, Kansas City, Missouri
Alfred Jacob Miller: Romancing the West
On view through January 9, 2011
This exhibition will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874) was a Baltimore artist who opened a studio in New Orleans. In 1837 he accompanied a fur trade expedition to the Rocky Mountains. After six months in the West, Miller's experiences supplied him with the raw material that he would continue to utilize for the remainder of his career. This exhibit features 30 works on paper that help illuminate the artist's working method that began with these field sketches and led to the finished paintings completed in the studio. For more information, call 816-751-1278.
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DENVER ART MUSEUM, Denver, Colorado
WinterWest 2011 and Symposium:
Tuesday, January 4
5:30-9:30 p.m. Blue Jean Preview
Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale; National Western Complex
Wednesday, January 5
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tour and Brunch
Denver Art Museum
5:30-9:30 p.m. Red Carpet Reception
Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale; National Western Complex
Thursday, January 6
Symposium A Distant View: European Perspectives on Western American Art
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Three prominent art scholars (Peter Bolz, Curator, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Germany; Laurent Salome, Director, Musees de Rouen, France; Sam Smiles, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Plymouth, England) will discuss various topics including the English influences of Thomas Moran on other western landscape painters, the relationship between fine art and commercial illustration in the American West, and how images of Native Americans changed the perspectives of both 19th century European natural historians and the public.
At the Denver Art Museum
5:30-8 p.m. New Horizons Opening Reception
Denver Art Museum.
For more information on WinterWest 2010 and A Distant View symposium, call 720-913-0025.
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TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART, Tucson, Arizona
The Journey of Lewis and Clark
On view through January 23, 2011
The exhibition was compiled from three different areas to give a rounded understanding of the people and landscapes that shaped one of the most important explorations in our nation’s history. All the objects on view were drawn from one private collection.
The largest portion of the exhibition is Charles Fritz: An Artist with the Corps of Discovery – One Hundred Paintings Illustrating the Journals of Lewis and Clark. The Montana artist completed this project over the past ten years, from 1998 to 2008. The one hundred oils he created chronicle the explorers’ journals from their first sighting of the Great Falls of the Missouri to a buffalo hunt to the Pacific Ocean and back. The artwork of Michael Haynes is featured in To the Western Ocean: Portraits of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, a series of fourteen watercolor portraits that bring the people behind the Corps of Discovery to life, in addition to works by a varied group of artists, including William Ahrendt, Clark Kelly Price and Don Spaulding. For more information, call 520-624-2333.
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GILCREASE THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Faces of the Frontier:
Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924
On view through January 2, 2011
Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924 is presented by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The show explores how the American West was dramatically reconstituted during the 80 years between the Mexican War and the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924. More than 100 photographic portraits in the exhibition tell the story of those who contributed to the transformation of this region.
For more information, call 918-596-2700.
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WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York, New York
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time
On view through April 10, 2011
Tracing the development of realism in American art between 1900 and 1940, this exhibition emphasizes the diverse ways artists depicted the transformation of urban and rural life during this period. The exhibition highlights the work of Edward Hopper, whose use of the subject matter of modern life to portray universal human experiences made him America’s most iconic realist painter of the 20th century. Drawn primarily from the Whitney Museum’s holdings, Modern Life places Hopper’s achievements in the context of his contemporaries—the Ashcan School painters with whom he came of age as an artist in the century’s first decades, the 1920’s Precisionist artists, whose explorations of abstract architectural geometries mirrored those of Hopper, and a younger generation of American Scene painters, who worked alongside Hopper in New York during the 1930s.
Edward Hopper visited Santa Fe for two weeks in 1925. During this time he produced twelve watercolor paintings. Others from this group who also came to Santa Fe were Robert Henri (who created a substantial body of work during three extended visits to Santa Fe), John Sloan (who purchased a home in Santa Fe as his summer retreat for thirty years), George Bellows and Leon Kroll (who came to visit and work with Robert Henri in 1917).
For more information, call 212-570-3600.
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