Past Exhibitions

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October 2, 2011 - March 4, 2012
Harry Callahan at 100
September 25, 2011 - January 2, 2012
Warhol: Headlines
This vertical painting imitates the front page of a newspaper, with mostly black text in different sizes against a white background. The bottom two-thirds is dominated by a black and white photograph of a woman and three lines of a single, large headline. To our left, the narrow, vertical portrait shows a smiling woman looking off to our left from the corners of her eyes. She has prominent, arching eyebrows and wears a white, possibly fuzzy hat over dark hair. The background behind her is charcoal gray. The largest text on the page fills the space next to her, to our right. It reads, “A BOY FOR MEG” in slanted letters. Under her portrait is the caption, “See Page 3” in small text. Moving to the top third of the painting: at the top left is a square portrait showing just the face of a man wearing a fedora, done in sky and royal blue. The caption under the portrait reads, “In the Magazine.” The headline that runs next to it has white text against ocean blue, and it reads, “Sinatra and his ‘Rat Pack’ TODAY: The Leader Himself (Con’t).” In the horizontal zone beneath the blue banner and above the portrait and headline about Meg, the title of the newspaper is the “New York Post.” To the left, a box reads, “WEATHER Fog tonight. in the 60s. Tomorrow: cloudy and warm, chance of showers.” In a box under the newspaper name, it reads, “NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1961 10 Cents.” A secondary headline, to our right, reads, “LATEST STOCK PRICES Pages 85-88.”
September 18, 2011 - January 8, 2012
The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries
July 30, 2011 - January 29, 2012
Artists' Books and Literature
July 25 - October 28, 2011
Publishing Modernism: The Bauhaus in Print
June 25, 2011 - July 8, 2012
A New Look: Samuel F.B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre"
June 8 - September 18, 2011
Masterpiece from the Capitoline Museum, Rome: The Capitoline Venus

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