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Indepth Arts News:
"Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian"
2000-01-18 until 2000-05-13
Dahesh Museum
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
Marie Bashkirtseff (Maria Bashkirtseva) (Ukrainian, 1860 - 1884)
In the Studio, 1881. Oil on canvas. Dnipropetrovsk State Art Museum,
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
Overcoming All Obstacles:
The Women of the Académie Julian
January 18 - May 13, 2000
The Académie Julian was the outstanding private art academy in
late 19th-century France. It was also the only place where a
woman could receive training comparable to that offered by the
official Ecole des Beaux-Arts, which did not accept women until
1897. This first major museum exhibition to explore the
Académie Julian concentrates on the women who traveled to
Paris to study and then established themselves as working
artists in their native countries, thereby creating a new class of
female professionals.
The core of the exhibition includes works
never before shown publicly from the collection of the successor
school, the Académie Julian Del Debbio in Paris, as well as
paintings from France, America, Sweden, Poland and Ukraine.
The exhibition, organized by the Dahesh Museum, was seen at
the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown,
Massachusetts, October 2, 1999 - January 2, 2000. After its
showing at the Dahesh Museum, the exhibition will travel to the
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, July 9 -
September 24, 2000.
Rutgers University Press and the Dahesh Museum are
co-publishing the fully illustrated catalogue, edited by co-curators
Professor Gabriel P. Weisberg and Dr. Jane R. Becker. For
more information on obtaining a copy of the catalogue please
visit the Dahesh Museum Gift Shop.
This exhibition is supported in part by grants from The
Citibank Private Bank and the Florence Gould
Foundation. The Consulate General of Ukraine, New
York, provided assistance.
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