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Indepth Arts News:
"Humanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon
Collection"
2000-10-05 until 2000-12-20
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY,
USA United States of America
Vassar College from October 5 - December 20
Come on a spectacular tour from the Old
World to the New, from the Rhine River Valley
and Loch Lomond to sites memorialized by
artists of the Hudson River School. Looking
through the interpretive lenses of cultural
geography and art history, Humanizing
Landscapes: Geography, Culture, and the
Magoon Collection casts new light upon the
art collection acquired by Matthew Vassar in
1864 from Elias Magoon, an early college trustee.
Magoons collection of over 4,000 works by
contemporary English and American artists,
including such major Hudson River School
painters as Frederic Edwin Church, Sanford
Robinson Gifford and Asher B. Durand,
immediately became an integral part of education
at Vassar College. The 70 works in this exhibition
include oil paintings, watercolors, prints, and
drawings by 55 artists. Of special regional interest
are rarely seen period maps and images of sites in the Hudson River Valley,
including Matthew Vassars estate
Springside, designed by Andrew Jackson Downing in the 1850s.
The last in a series of three multidisciplinary
exhibitions funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
Humanizing Landscapes is accompanied by a fully
illustrated catalogue featuring essays by curators
David Lowenthal (Geography, University College, London),
Karen Lucic (Art History, Vassar College), and
Harvey Flad (Geography and American Culture, Vassar College).
In conjunction with the exhibition, a free public symposium,
from Friday, October 27,through Saturday, October 28, will feature talks by
Lowenthal, art historian Eleanor Jones Harvey, landscape architect Anne
Whiston Spirn, and the landscape photography team of
Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee. Landscape photographs
by Spirn and by Beahan & McPhee will be on view in
the Loeb from mid-October to mid-November.
IMAGE:
Benjamin Champney
American 1817-1907
Ripley Falls, 1958
Oil on canvas
10 x 8
Gift of Matthew Vassar 1864.1.11>
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