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SPRING
& SUMMER SCHEDULE 2002
Visionary
Connoisseurship: The Mari and James A. Michener Collection of
Twentieth Century American Painting (January 20
– August 25, 2002)
Selections
from the Permanent Collection (May 5 - August 25,
2002)
Amarillo
Collects: The Dog (September 8 - October 27, 2002)
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EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW
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| Visionary
Connoisseurship: The Mari and James A. Michener Collection of Twentieth
Century American Painting (January 20
– August 25, 2002) |
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O. Louis
Guglielmi Funeral at Woodford, 1932 Oil on Canvas
24 1/64" x 29 59/64" The Mari and James A. Michener
Collection, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of
Texas, Austin
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The Amarillo
Museum of Art is pleased to present an eight month exhibition of
selected works from the James A. Michener Collection at the Jack
S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin. This
monumental exhibition was curated by the Amarillo Museum of Art
under the advice and guidance of Annette Dimeo Carlozzi, Curator
of American Art for the Blanton. |
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Charles
Biederman New York, October 1935, 1935 Oil on Canvas
33 " x 26 " The Mari and James A. Michener Collection,
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin
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"Visionary
Connoisseurship is designed to provide viewers with a visual
journey through the history of 20th century painting in America
between the 1915’s to the 1980’s. The rich holdings of
the Michener Collection illustrate, at the highest level, the transition
of American Art through the various and sometimes simultaneous developments
of Modernism, Regionalism, Social Realism, Abstraction, Abstract
Expressionism, Pop Art, and beyond," says Museum Director Patrick
McCracken." The forty paintings in the exhibition include such
artists as Robert Henri, George Luks, John Marin, Arthur Dove, Jerry
Bywaters, Charles Sheeler, Adolph Gottlieb, Morris Louis, Sam Francis,
and Helen Frankenthaler, among others. |
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Jerry
Bywaters Oil Field Girls, 1940 Oil on Board 30"
x 25" The Mari and James A. Michener Collection, Jack
S. Blanton Museum
of Art, University of Texas, Austin
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Michener, author
of such novels as Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii,
Texas, and Centennial, began collecting 20th century
American in paintings in 1962 with his wife, Mari. He wrote, "I
knew from the beginning that a collector was a custodian for a brief
period of time, after which it was his obligation to pass it on
to the public." After intense research and years of collecting,
the Micheners gave their collection to the Huntington Art Gallery
at The University of Texas, Austin, now known as the Jack S. Blanton
Museum of Art. |
Selections
from the Permanent Collection:
(May 5 - August 25, 2002) |
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Francesco
Guardi
Santa Maria della Salute, ca. 1760
Oil on Canvas
11 3/4 x 17 5/8 in
Bequest of Lawrence Hagy |
A selection of
paintings from the Museum’s collection to further complement
the ongoing Michener exhibition will include works by Franz Kline,
Helen Frankenthaler, John Marin and other important 20th century
masters. |
UPCOMING
EXHIBITIONS
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PAST
EXHIBITIONS
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| Works
on Paper from the Permanent Collection (January
20 – March 3, 2002) |
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Manuel
Alvarez Bravo Dog on Beach, 1930 Palladium Print
6" x 9"
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Although the
Amarillo Museum of Art's collection contains art works in all
media, the primary focus has been works on paper. This exhibition
features a generous sampling of the different forms "works
on paper" can take, and highlights the variety of the Amarillo
Museum of Art’s holdings. Selected in part to complement
the paintings in the Michener exhibition, Works on Paper departs
occasionally from the United States in order to display a broader
spectrum of styles and mediums, including drawing in pencil and
ink, woodblock prints, intaglio, photography, serigraphy, watercolor,
lithography and mixed media.
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John
Sloan:
Summer of ‘22 (January
20 – April 7, 2002) |
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John
Sloan Burros Threshing, 1922 Oil on Canvas 24"
x 32" Promised Gift of Frank and Peggy Ladd
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Burros Threshing,
a painting completed in 1922 by John Sloan will return to the Museum
for its annual visit from January 20 - April 28, 2002. This painting
is a promised gift to the Museum from Frank and Peggy Ladd.
Burros
Threshing will be joined by two other paintings completed
in Santa Fe in the summer of 1922. Road to Cienega, an
oil on canvas, depicts the old road running south from Santa Fe
to Cerillos. In his book Gist of Art, Sloan describes his
subject as "an old side road to the little, gold bearing
hills of Cerillos. The vivid green of a tree evidences a stream
in an otherwise arid country. It looks like a lettuce in New York."
The other painting is Coyote Mesa and is sometimes known
under the title of Buttes, New Mexico. In Sloan’s
notes, he places the subject as a mesa on the edge of the Carson
National Forest.
Both of these
paintings are on loan to this exhibition from the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine and are a bequest to Bowdoin from
George Otis Hamlin. This will be an intimate exhibition that glimpses
into the summer of 1922 when John Sloan was just beginning a long
series of summer seasons of painting in New Mexico.
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European
Modernist and Constructivist Photographs: The A.G. Edwards & Sons
Corporate Collection (November 4, 2001
- January 6, 2002) |
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Nathan Lerner, Light Box Study, 1939 Negative, Silver
Gelatin Print.
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This exhibition
of photographs has been custom-curated for the Amarillo Museum of
Art by Janice Broderick, the Curator of Collections for A.G. Edwards
& Sons, Inc. This exhibition is a survey of the photography holdings
of the Corporate Collection, which is housed in the A.G. Edwards
& Sons home office in St. Louis, Missouri. Over the past few years,
this corporate collection has amassed an important and broad overview
of modernist and constructivist photography traditions developed
in Europe between the first and second World Wars. Most of the experimental
photography of the period took place in Russia, Czechoslavakia,
the Netherlands, and Spain. An important aspect of this exhibition
is the large number of vintage photographs that will be available
to the viewer. A vintage photograph is a photograph printed by the
artist within a close time frame when the image was taken. That
is to say, these photographs are not contemporary prints made from
historical negatives. Among the artists represented will be Gyorgy
Kepes Rodchenko, Emili Godes, Alfred Ehrhardt, and Demitri Kessel.
This exhibition has been organized in cooperation with the local
A.G. Edwards & Sons office - particularly with the assistance of
Richard McElreath. |
Richard
Benson: Multiples (November 4, 2001 -
January 6, 2002) |
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Richard Benson, Jim Szarkowski's Barn, 2001, ink
jet print
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Richard Benson
is among photography's most innovative image makers and a printer
of extraordinary talent. He invented a method of printing photographic
negatives in acrylic paint on light sensitized sheets of aluminum.
The resulting prints have a tonal richness and subtlety that cannot
be found in conventionally made photographs. The work is labor intensive
and produces a unique image even with the same negative. The final
print from each would have discernable differences. Benson will
curate this exhibition from current and earlier works. The Museum
first became aware of Richard Benson through his friend, Dr. Philip
Perriman of Amarillo. Benson is currently Chairman of the Yale School
of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. |
Andrea
Rosenberg: Push and Pull (November 4, 2001 - January
6, 2002) |
Andrea
Rosenburg, Untitled, Mixed Media on Paper, 2000 |
Andrea Rosenberg's
mostly small mixed media works on paper are elegant and forceful,
steady and risky, and are always asserting the hand of the artist.
As the Dallas art critic Charles Dee Mitchell has observed, "Even
in her purely abstract work, Rosenberg explored the dual processes
of becoming and decaying, the realization of potential and its eventual
demise. These new flower paintings particularize that drama in images
whose austerity strengthens their sensuality. Here is vegetative
life reimagined as sensuous abstraction and emotionally charged
drama." Rosenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, was educated at
the Cleveland Institute of Art, and has lived and worked in Dallas
since the early 1980s. |
Buddhist
Sculpture: 9th Century Java (November
4, 2001 - January 6, 2002) |
Seated
Bodhisattua, Java, 9th century, Carved Basalt |
For Buddhist
Sculpture: 9th Century Java, the Museum will install a number
of sculptures associated with the important temple sites of Java,
Indonesia. These works feature Buddhist deities from the zenith
of artistic development there during the 8th and 9th centuries.
Buddhism was supplanted by Islam in the region during the 13th century,
but the great Buddhist temples and their sculptural legacy have
remained a constant source of research and scholarship over the
past 200 years. All of the pieces in this exhibition are gifts to
the Museum's Collection from Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price. |
| Keith
Carter: The Horse |
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Keith
Carter, Rubenesque, 1999,
Silver gelatin print
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Keith Carter
is among the most respected fine art photographers in the state
of Texas and one of America's best known contemporary photographers.
He has, for the past two decades, published a number of books that
explore singular themes; this exhibition is a selection of images
from his most recent book, Ezekiel's Horse, published in 2000 by
The University of Texas Press. Carter's photographs often have an
eerie, haunting quality that quickly engage the viewer's imagination
and tilts the impact of the subject toward the suggestion of narrative.
Carter has written, "For some years now, I have tried to describe
in my photographs a certain commonality among living things, a certain
democracy among all creatures great and small. For me, horses are
mythic, grand, elegant, companionable, intelligent, and dangerous.
They are also mysterious. I confess that it has never been the wildness
of horses that has attracted me, but rather their patience in the
face of an unnatural domestication. The man who first climbed on
the back of a horse some four to six thousand years ago forever
changed the course of history and the nature of the horse." |
Rod
Penner: More Real |
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R.E.
Penner, 212/House with Snow, Acrylic on canvas, 1998
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Rod Penner is
an extraordinarily skilled realist painter who lives in the Houston
area. Over the past decade, he has focused on the familiar sights
in small Texas towns. Most of these paintings (which take between
two to four months to complete) are meticulously rendered in small
scale to capture, in incredible detail, the commonplace reality
of much of rural Texas. New York art critic Ivan Karp has said of
Penner's work, "In spite of the artist's recording of a rather charmless
setting engulfed in a disconsolate atmosphere the work conveys neither
malice or condemnation of the subject. It is instead remarkable
evidence of the artist's passionate fascination with a common and
familiar streetscape and heroically continues what is now a tradition
of serene American Realism." Penner is represented in New York City
by O.K. Harris Gallery where he has had three one person exhibitions
since 1993. This exhibition was formed from private collections
in Texas and Oklahoma. |
Jake
Gilson: Still Moments |
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| Jake
Gilson, Appearance Now, 1999, lacquer/acids on steel |
Jake Gilson is
a mid-career artist who for the past eleven years has maintained
and lived in a warehouse/studio in Austin, Texas. Born and raised
in California, Gilson earned his Masters of Fine Arts at Arizona
State University in 1975. The unconventional use of materials has
long been a hallmark of Gilson's starkly minimalist works. This
exhibition will survey his use of 1/8" steel plate as the foundation
surface for his paintings. The unforgiving steel is chemically manipulated
with gun bluing to arrive at extremely subtile modulations of color
and shading that give the illusion of depth and indeterminate space.
A final application of brief passages of traditional oil pigment
in a grid pattern complete these contemplative pieces. The haunting
presence, although almost imperceptible, of a boat form in these
works lend a sense of the mystery of the sea. Gilson has an extensive
exhibition record, including Laguna Beach Art Museum, Long Beach
Art Museum, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Blue Star Art Space, San
Antonio, and the Heard Museum, Phoenix. He is also deeply involved
in Austin's Art in Public Places Committee. |
East
and West |
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exhibition of works on paper features artists whose drawings and
prints are strongly influenced by eastern (Asian) culture and or
philosophy. In the case of Shelly Horton-Tripp of Santa Fe, a series
of 12 monoprints illustrates various Mudra or symbolic hand gestures.
Mudra is a Sanskrit word for sacred gesture that symbolically expresses
inner wisdom. Mudra is common to both Buddhist and Hindu religious
practices. Horton-Tripp began incorporating these gestures after
she studied meditation discipline with a Tibetan monk. Andrea Rosenberg
of Dallas makes powerful, spare drawings of flowers that are much
akin to Chinese paintings of the Ming period while Judy Youngblood,
of Denton, creates monoprints that are strongly related to Edo period
Japanese wood blocks. Other artists in this show, using direct and
indirect sources, illustrate the cross- pollination of artistic
exchange between the east and west that has been evident in western
art over the past 130 years. |
Sunlight
and Shadow: American Impressionism 1885-1945 |
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| Carl,
Lawless (1849-?) Winter Brook, circa 1902 oil on canvas
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Affectionately
called the Hub of the Universe, Boston often has been in the vanguard
of the rest of the country, culturally, economically, and intellectually.
By the late 1860s and early 1870s when French Impressionism coalesced
as a style, it was clear to the public and critics alike that the
French art establishment would never be the same again. Among the
first to recognize this fact were certain artists and patrons of
Boston. Sunlight and Shadow casts new light on a host of
eminent Impressionists who worked in New England during the late
nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.
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Four Centuries
of Art: A Survey of the Peggy and Frank Ladd Collection
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| Sally
Mann , Untitled, 1996, photograph, 38"
x 48" |
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The 2001 Achievements
in American Art Exhibition will honor the remarkable art collection
of Frank and Peggy Ladd of Amarillo.
Over the past
three decades, Frank and Peggy Ladd have built an extraordinary
collection of American art, or more accurately, art of the Americas.
This diverse collection includes superior examples of Spanish
Colonial hollowware and sculpture, as well as very fine examples
of Southwest Native American art, primarily textiles, baskets,
and pottery.
The Ladd's
collection of American painting and works on paper is a well known
resource for scholars and curators and spans the time period of
pre-American Revolution through the 19th century, as well as a
special emphasis on America's early 20th century modern masters.
The list of artists will include such preeminent names as John
Singleton Copley, John Marin, John Sloan, Andrew Dasburg, Marsden
Hartley, Thomas Hart Benton, Alfred T. Bricher, and Charles Demuth.
The Ladds
remain actively interested in art being produced by contemporary
artists throughout the country. Examples of this area of their
collection include Joe Andoe, Sally Mann, and Christopher Brown.
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Scholars'
Choice: Published Works of Art from the Museum's Permanent Collection
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| Dorothea Lange,
Migrant Mother with Three Children, California,
February,1936 |
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The third
of four exhibitions this year that features the Museum's collection
is Scholars' Choice: Published Works of Art from the Museum's
Permanent Collection. This exhibition features the art works most
often studied and published by scholars outside the Amarillo Museum
of Art's publication program. Also included are numerous books
and catalogues that have featured art objects from the Museum's
collection.
Georgia O'Keeffe,
John Marin, Linda Connor, Luis Jimenez, Dorothea Lange, and Francisco
Guardi are a few of the artists that will be represented in this
exhibition.
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| Recent
Gifts to the Permanent Collection |
| Linda
Connor, Entwined Buddha, Ayuthaya, Thailand,
1988, hand-coated platinum print, 18" x 23" |
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This annual
exhibition is a survey of works of art accepted into the Museum's
permanent collection during the preceding calendar year. During
2000, major works by Robert Stackhouse, Luis Jimenez, Hung Liu,
and Squeak Carnwarth have been given to the Museum. Of special
note are six Linda Connor photographs donated to the collection
by Chuck Kitsman and Mr. and Mrs. Mike Brister. The photographs
are related to Connor's Sacred Places series and focus on monastic
life in the Himalayas.
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| Recent
Gifts to the Permanent Collection from Mrs. Malcolm T. Shelton |
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| Salvador
Dali, Perseus, 1972, cast bronze |
Phoebe Shelton,
a founding Trustee and long time advocate for the Museum's collection,
has recently given some 25 works of art to the Museum. Reflecting
Mrs. Shelton's discerning eye and wide-ranging interest, these
works include Japanese prints, European paintings and prints,
and American modernist paintings.
The American
works include such important artists as Jane Wilson, Fairfield
Porter, John Grillo, and Elaine de Kooning. Among the European
holdings are paintings by Maurice Utrillo, J.M.W. Turner, and
Marie Laurencin. The Asian art works include three woodblock prints
by Kiyoshi Saito (1907-1997) and one Edo period print by Eizan.
Of particular note is a 17th century painting of the interior
of a Chinese rice warehouse.
The Collections
Committee is also pleased to announce the recent gift of two Salvador
Dali sculptures. These cast bronze pieces were gifted through
Joseph Czestochowski of Memphis, Tennessee, and were given in
honor of Paul and Natalie Buckthal. The Buckthals are long time
Museum friends and have been particularly interested in the Museum's
permanent collection.
These bronzes
were cast in 1972 as part of a group of 44 sculptures commissioned
by Isidro Clot of Barcelona, Spain. Dali modeled the figures from
wax at his home in Port Lligat, Spain, between 1969 and 1972.
The works, entitled Quixote Seated and Perseus,
came to the Museum directly from the Clot Collection. Previously
they were exhibited in Madrid, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Milan,
and Warsaw.
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