Past Exhibitions

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September 15, 1996 - January 5, 1997
Adolph Menzel (1815-1905)
June 30 - October 20, 1996
Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico
June 23 - September 29, 1996
Thomas Eakins
Two men with pale skin, wearing white sleeveless shirts and royal-blue caps, row in unison in a long, narrow boat on a placid blue river in this horizontal landscape painting. The low, honey-colored wooden boat extends off both sides of the canvas. Both men face our left as they row to our right. The man in front looks ahead of him, beyond the stern of the boat, and the man to our right, closer to the bow, tucks his chin down to look past his shoulder. Their bare, muscled arms are extended straight as the two oars sweep back. The tip of another boat runs close and parallel to the bottom edge of the composition, spanning the left three-quarters of the painting. The opposite riverbank is lined with a dense forest of pine-green trees. People crowd along the decks of a steamboat and a paddleboat near the riverbank to our left. Another narrow skuller, rowed by four people wearing ruby-red shirts, cuts through the water at the back center of the river. The riverbank beyond is lined with people, painted with strokes of black and white, and minuscule touches of red. The horizon comes halfway up the composition. Cream-white clouds float across a muted, topaz-blue sky above the trees.
June 16 - December 2, 1996
Masterpieces from the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Rome
May 26 - September 2, 1996
In the Light of Italy
May 12 - November 10, 1996
Gauguin Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
April 28 - August 18, 1996
Scenes of Daily Life

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