Past Exhibitions

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Impressionist to Early Modern Paintings from the USSR

Closed June 15, 1986

Baroque Paintings from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Closed September 29, 1986

Drawings by Jacques de Gheyn

Closed May 11, 1986

The image shows a landscape with a detailed tree in the center, hills, and distant trees in the background. The brush strokes give texture to the scene. The color scheme is primarily sepia. Near the bottom left, there is a bush and a round object. The landscape extends towards the horizon, where more trees are visible against the sky.

Winslow Homer Watercolors

Closed May 11, 1986

This painting shows a landscape with a village seen from above. The view includes red rooftops and a white church with dome-shaped structures. In the background, there are distant mountains in shades of purple, blue, and red. There are dark green trees on the left, in front of what looks like a pale body of water. Closest to us is a strip of green that suggests a hilltop. The sky above is cloudy, with shades of gray and cream. The brushstrokes in the painting are thick and fluid.

The New Painting

Closed April 6, 1986

Painted entirely with small dots of pure color mostly in slate and azure blue, olive green, and cream white, this scene shows a sandy beach stretching to a lighthouse at the center and a four-story building to our right in this horizontal seascape. The tall, slender lighthouse standing on the water’s edge a short distance from us is painted with specks of azure and sky blue, ivory, and peach. In the distance to our left, a pier stretches into the sea along the horizon, which comes about two-thirds of the way up this composition. A sailboat floats just off the pier, near the left edge of the painting. To our right of the lighthouse and extending off the right edge of the canvas, the building has three levels of windows and a row of dormers along the tall, peaked roof. The building is painted with touches of dove gray, sapphire blue, and pale pink. In front of the building and to our right, a denim-blue shed has a tangerine-orange roof. A wooden rowboat outlined in cornflower blue with flecks of dandelion yellow rests on the sand next to the shed. In front of us, dots of moss green blend into the blond tones of the sand, creating an impression of grass on the beach. Sunlight shimmers on the sea to our left, which is painted with short dashes of mint and seafoam green, baby blue, cream, and shell pink, beneath a clear, ice-blue sky.

Titian: The Flaying of Marsyas

Closed April 20, 1986

This special showing of Titian's famous work was arranged by chief curator Sydney Freedberg. In 1983 the work had been lent by the State Museum in Kromeriz, Czechoslovakia, for the first time in 300 years to the Genius of Venice exhibition at London's Royal Academy of Arts. Freedberg then persuaded authorities to permit the painting to travel to the United States.

The Treasure Houses of Britain

500 Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting

Closed April 13, 1986