PAST EXHIBITIONS 2003
Feast the Eye, Fool the Eye, Nature Morte
August 23 - October 19, 2003
Ten by Appel
August 23 - October 19, 2003
Georgia O'Keeffe & the Calla Lily in American Art
May 31 - August 10, 2003
The calla lily was first imported from South Africa in the mid-nineteenth century and quickly became a popular house plant with gardeners and a favorite subject for painters. The exotic shape of the bloom and its dramatic presence was highlighted in a painting as early as 1862 by John La Farge. Many nineteenth-century painters included the calla lily with other flowers in still-life compositions. In the twentieth century modernist painters such as Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler were drawn to its bold and curvilinear form. Georgia O’Keeffe painted the calla lily several times, focusing on a single blossom. The elegant shape of the calla lily also made it a favorite subject for photographers who used dramatic lighting to emphasize the beauty of the flower.
Over fifty paintings of the calla lily by some of America’s most important artists are represented in this exhibition, including the Museum’s painting of Flowers in a Vase by Preston Dickinson which was lent to the exhibition. A fully-illustrated catalogue is available in the Museum Gift Shop.
Georgia O’Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860–1940, was organized by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum andwas made possible, in part, by The Burnett Foundation and the National Advisory Council of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
Summer by the Sea
May 31 - August 10, 2003
The ocean and the beach is the favorite summer “resort” for many Americans and has often been a subject for artists who also fled the stifling city for cool ocean breezes. This refreshing exhibition explored the seashore and its environs.
Reconstructing Forms: Contemporary Sculpture by Amaldo Pomodoro
March 29 - May 18, 2003
Arnaldo Pomodoro is one of Italy’s most renowned sculptors. He was born in 1926 in Morciano, Romagna, Italy. From the mid-1940s until 1957 he served as a consultant for the restoration of public buildings in Pesaro while studying stage design and working as a goldsmith. In 1954 he moved to Milan where he came under the influence of a group of sculptors and had his first sculpture exhibition. In succeeding years Pomodoro traveled extensively between Europe and the United States where he organized exhibitions of contemporary Italian art in galleries in New York and San Francisco. He has taught at Stanford University in California and the University of California at Berkeley. During the late 1960s and 1970s he executed commissions for outdoor sculpture in Germany, Milan, and New York. He has won numerous awards, and his work is included in public exhibitions worldwide.
This exhibition was organized by Marlborough Gallery, New York, in conjunction with the Muscarelle Museum of Art.
Winslow Homer the Illustrator: His Wood Engravings, 1857 - 1888
January 25 - March 16, 2003
This exhibition of wood engravings traced a thirty year period in the life of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), one of America’s greatest artists. The 145 engravings in the exhibition provided an opportunity to observe the growth of Homer from a self-taught popular illustrator of 1858 to a deeply moving major artist of the 1870s.
Windows on the West: Views from the American Frontier - The Phelan Collection
October 10, 2002 - January 12, 2003 |
