PAST EXHIBITIONS 2004
Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge
August 28 - October 24, 2004
This exhibition featured the extraordinary posters and prints created by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries. This exhibition was organized and circulated by The Baltimore Museum of Art.
Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge featured thirty posters and fifteen prints by Toulouse-Lautrec as well as another fifteen posters and fifteen prints by his contemporaries Jules Cheret, Théophile Steinlen, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Alphonse Mucha, and others. At the end of the nineteenth century these artists were creating images to publicize the music halls and their entertainers in the Montmartre section of Paris. Posters and prints were made through the use of the new medium of color lithography and became wildly popular with the public. They were immediately collected and today their images record the popular culture at the turn of the century.
With Paintbrush & Shovel - Preserving Virginia's Wildflowers
June 12 - August 15, 2004
This exhibition featured eighty watercolors by Bessie Niemeyer Marshall (1884–1960), a Virginia native. Primarily a self-taught artist, she initially decorated lampshades and furniture as a hobby. During the Depression she began painting seriously to earn money for her large family. Marshall first exhibited her floral paintings at a meeting of the Petersburg (Virginia) Garden Club in 1937.
Successions: Prints by African-American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection
April 3 - May 30, 2004
Successions: Prints by African-American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection featured sixty-two works created using traditional and non-traditional printmaking techniques such as etchings, monoprints, lithographs, linocuts, and silkscreens. On view were prints by over forty outstanding artists, including Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, David Driskell, Sam Gilliam, and Jacob Lawrence.
The exhibition highlighted the remarkable focus of the Jean and Robert Steele Collection. Dr. Steele, Associate Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, and his wife Jean (W&M ‘65) have been at the forefront of collecting works on paper by African-American artists for the last thirty years and have acquired a collection of over 400 prints and works on paper.
The extraordinary depth of this collection provided an opportunity to appreciate a variety of styles and thematic expressions embodied in the works of some of the most celebrated African-American artists of the twentieth century. An illustrated catalogue accompanied the exhibition.
The exhibition was organized by The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park.
American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement
January 24 - March 21, 2004
Delicate, whimsical, and complex glass sculptures created by artists from all over the country have safely made their way to the Heckscher Museum's of Art's sizzling summer exhibition American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement. This exhibit of about 50 works represented 30 artists was a strongly impressionable artistic display. The show features quintessential works by Harvey Littleton who founded the first fine arts glass program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1962 and other forefathers of the American Studio Glass Movement; Dominick Lambino, Littleton's partner in workshops that helped to position glass as art; Marvin Lipofsky, who founded the second university glass program in 1964 at the University of California in Berkeley; and Dale Chihuly, who distinguished himself by establishing the glass program at the Rhode Island School of Design also in 1964, and together with other artists, the Pilchuck Glass School near Seattle, Washington in 1971.
William & Mary Collects II: A Celebration & Looking Back 20 years
November 1, 2003, January 11, 2004
This exhibition honored the twentieth anniversary of the Muscarelle Museum of Art. In October of 1983, the Museum opened with an exhibition entitled William and Mary Collects: 19th and 20th Century Works of Art from the Alumni and Friends of the College. In the fall of 2003, the Museum celebrates its first twenty years with another exhibition of works lent by alumni and friends of the College and the Museum.
The exhibition explored the diversity of art collected today. Over seventy works of art were displayed, including eight that were in the original exhibition of 1983 and have since been given to the Museum. Among the objects lent to the Museum for this exhibition were paintings by Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, and Antonio Jacobsen; sculpture by Frederick Hart and Beverly Pepper; prints by James Rosenquist, Robert Cottingham, and Romere Bearden; and drawings by Francisco Zúñiga and Reginald Marsh. A fully illustrated catalogue is available.
Looking Back 20 years exhibition document highlights of the Museum’s first twenty years of existence. Photographs of the benefactors and donors at the ceremonies involved in turning the first shovel of dirt for the construction of the Museum—and the shovel—were on display along with ephemera documenting important events at the Museum.
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