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Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints Into Maiolica and Bronze
Closed August 5, 2018

This exhibition brings together some 90 objects to highlight the impact of Renaissance prints on maiolica and bronze plaquettes, the two media most dramatically influenced by the new technology of image replication.

Heavenly Earth: Images of Saint Francis at La Verna
Closed July 8, 2018
This is a drawing of a forest scene. The artwork depicts a person with a hooded cloak kneeling beneath a canopy of leafy trees, reaching upward. The forest surrounds with trees and foliage detailed, with a path between them. In the distance, a castle can be faintly seen. The atmosphere is contemplative, with light suggesting a significant occurrence. Texture and form of the foliage and garments adds depth to the drawing.
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry
Closed January 21, 2018

This landmark exhibition examines the artistic exchanges among Johannes Vermeer and his contemporaries from the mid-1650s to around 1680, when they reached the height of their technical ability and mastery of genre painting.

In this vertical painting, a woman stands near the corner of a dimly lit room, facing our left in profile and looking down at a balance she holds suspended in her right hand over a wooden table. She wears a peacock-blue velvet jacket with a white hood and fur lining, and a voluminous, mustard-yellow skirt. A window near the upper left corner is partially covered by a canary-yellow curtain. Light coming in through that window falls on the pale skin of the woman's face and hands, and highlights the white trim of her garment. Her left hand, closer to us, rests on the edge of the table near two open boxes, and a blue cloth is bunched at the back of the table to our left. Gold chains and pearl strands drape over the edge of one box. The woman stands in front of a framed painting. Much of the detail is lost in shadow but at the top center of the painting, a person surrounded by a golden halo floats in the sky with both arms raised, and is flanked by people encased within a bank of clouds. Nude people on the ground below in the painting, seen to either side of the woman, writhe, twist, and point upward.
In the Library: The Art of Sleuthing—Evidence of Collectors Who Made their Mark
Closed September 23, 2022
American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams
Closed October 2, 2022
Night Moods
Closed December 31, 2022
The City
Closed February 27, 2022
This is a painting of a construction scene with architectural and human elements. The artwork depicts a central figure operating a jackhammer, surrounded by skyscrapers and abstract forms in stark black and white contrast. The background buildings are depicted with wavy lines, tilted, and distorted. The scene conveys energy through powerful lines emanating from the figure and machine, suggesting vibrations and action. The style is reminiscent of Franz Kline, known for bold, abstract black-and-white compositions emphasizing strong contrast and dynamic forms.
Paintings from the Berlin Museums
Closed April 25, 1948
James Nares’ Street
Closed July 6, 2014
Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art
Closed July 24, 2016
Fire burps out the top of a pair of smokestacks on two steamboats that power down a wide river at night in this color lithograph. Black smoke billows back from the flames, and steam hisses from smaller smokestacks at the back of the boats. The boat to our left is the Natchez, and writing around its name reads, “Vicksburg, Natchez and New Orleans Mail Line.” The other boat is the Eclipse. People line the decks of both as the boats race under the moonlit sky. A blanket of gray clouds breaks in front of the luminous moon. Printed text below the image reads, “A MIDNIGHT RACE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.” Tiny text printed under the lower left corner of the image reads, “F.F. PALMER DEL. FROM A SKETCH BY H.D. MANNING OF THE NATCHEZ” and “LITH. OF CURRIER & IVES, N.Y.” in the lower right.
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