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Exhibition: Edward Hopper
Closed January 21, 2008

48 paintings, 34 watercolors, and 12 prints were presented in this survey of the career of American artist Edward Hopper. The exhibition was arranged chronologically and thematically in seven sections: prints, early work and Gloucester, the city, Maine, Truro, figures, and late work.

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
Closed July 16, 2017
The image shows two full-length figures facing each other. The person on the left is standing and playing a long trumpet-like instrument. They have curly hair, delicate facial features, and wear a flowing gown. The person on the right is also standing, holding a long staff, with straight hair and a serene expression. Both figures wear detailed gowns and are set against a plain, grid-patterned background.
Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel
Closed January 28, 2018
Matthias Mansen: Configurations
Closed April 20, 2018
The image displays a vertical arrangement of geometric shapes and brush strokes forming a grid-like pattern. The abstract composition is filled with patches of vibrant colors, predominantly red, yellow, blue, and brown, against a white background. The design may evoke stained glass windows or a mosaic mural, with blocks of color interspersed with earthy hues and occasional dark shadows.
In the Tower: Theaster Gates: The Minor Arts
Closed September 4, 2017

Salvaging discarded materials found in and around his native Chicago, Gates responds to the decline of urban institutions and traditions and resurrects them as art. Gates gives new form to the outdated and the left-behind and stakes a claim for the artfulness of the everyday.

Narrow boards of a wood gymnasium floor were taken apart and reassembled as vertical planks that make up this wide, rectangular panel, which hangs on a wall. Several boards have long strips of black tape and one, near the top right corner, has a band of red tape. Most of the markings are short checks of black, white, red, and green tape. The wood stain is dark in some areas, gray with damage in others, or flaking in places. The two longest horizontal black stripes are near the top left corner and across the right half, about a third of the way down from the top edge of the piece. The room where this hangs has wider planked wood floors and a white wall.
Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures
Closed December 3, 2017

Combining art, fashion, science, and conservation, this revelatory exhibition brings together—for the first time—some 14 of the paintings known as the fantasy figures by Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806).

Shown from the lap up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a goldenrod-yellow dress, sits reading a small book, facing our left in profile in this vertical painting. The deep, scooped neckline of her rich yellow gown is edged with lace and decorated with a mauve-purple bow at the bust. Her chest is covered by sheer white fabric under a ruffled, pleated collar. The ruff is tied at the back with another mauve bow, and a ribbon of the same color ties up her chestnut-brown hair. She has a delicate nose and rosebud mouth, and she tips her head down to read the book she holds in one hand. She sits against an oversize pillow streaked with pale lilac and deep rose pink. Her left arm, closer to us, is draped over a railing that extends across the width of the canvas. The background behind her is streaked with tan and muted teal blue. A vertical strip of light caramel brown along the right edge of the canvas suggests another wall against which the pillow rests. The artist’s loose, lively brushstrokes are visible throughout.
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