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Amon
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FORT WORTH, Texas—Amon
Carter Museum of American Art Director Ron Tyler announced today the special
exhibition schedule for 2011, the museum’s 50th
Anniversary
year. From magnificent landscape paintings of the Hudson River School to the
Amon Carter’s exemplary works-on-paper collection to the late work of the great
American modernist John Marin, 2011 promises to be a year of extraordinary
American art in Fort
Worth,
says Tyler.
SPECIAL EXHIBITION
SCHEDULE
The Hudson River
School: Nature and the American
Vision
February 26–June 19,
2011
Beginning in the
1820s, the American landscape became a significant theme for artists, who
traveled up the Hudson River from New York City to sketch the rugged
mountains
and tranquil valleys along its banks. With the noted landscape painter Thomas
Cole as their inspirational leader, these artists gave impetus to the first
self-consciously “American” vision for landscape painting, a movement that would
become known as the
Hudson
River School.
Today, a major
repository of Hudson River School paintings is housed at The New-York Historical
Society (New York, New York), which is presently
undergoing
a comprehensive renovation. On this unusual occasion, the esteemed institution
is sending 45 of its treasured landscapes on a journey across the nation in
2011, and the first stop is Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum of American
Art.
Leading figures of the
Hudson River School are represented, including Cole, Frederic Edwin Church,
Asher B. Durand, John Frederick Kensett, Jasper
Francis
Cropsey and George Inness, among others. Arranged
thematically, the exhibition illuminates the sites that artists depicted
as
resources for spiritual renewal, as well as potent symbols embodying
powerful ideas about nature, culture and
history.
The exhibition follows a Grand Tour,
originating with classic views of the Catskill Mountains before moving farther
afield with paintings of the
Adirondacks
and White Mountains of New Hampshire. The final rooms of the exhibition feature
a medley of paintings of remarkable scenes of the Ecuadorian Andes, the grand
panoramas of the American West and the Arcadian visions of Italy.
The highlight of the
installation is Cole’s monumental series of five canvases, The Course of Empire,
which charts the cyclical history of an
imaginary
nation. Created between 1834 and 1836, the cycle is breathtaking in its wealth
of detail from its initial scene of hunting in the wilderness to its concluding
panel portraying the aftermath of an empire raged by its own decadence and
corruption.
Accompanied by a
full-length
publication,
The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision is
organized by the New-York Historical Society and is supported by an
indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the
Humanities.
A Tru Vue Optium® Conservation Grant from The
Foundation of
the
American Institute for Conservation
of Historic & Artistic Works has supported glazing of the works in the
exhibition. The local presentation of this exhibition is supported in
part by the Katrine Menzing Deakins Trust and the Crystelle Waggoner Trust; U.S.
Trust,
Trustee.
The
Allure of Paper: Drawings and Watercolors from the
Collection
July
9, 2011–October
9,
2011
Organized
in celebration of the Amon Carter’s 50th Anniversary, this special exhibition
showcases
more
than 100 drawings and watercolors from the museum’s holdings. These
one-of-a-kind works of art range in date from the early 19th century
to the late 20th century and chronicle the sweeping changes that
occurred in American art over
the
course of nearly 200 years. From portraiture and history painting to early
modernism and abstraction, these objects represent the finest from the museum’s
works-on-paper holdings. Artists included in the exhibition include Winslow
Homer, Edward Hopper,
Georgia
O’Keeffe, John Singer Sargent, Ben Shahn and Joseph Stella. Highly sensitive to
light, these objects are infrequently shown, and they have never before been
exhibited together. An exhibition catalogue is available as well, making the
works accessible
long
after they have returned to the vaults. The exhibition is sponsored by Frost.
John Marin: Modernism at
Midcentury
November 5,
2011–January 8, 2012
Reflect on the last 20
years of the art of John Marin (1870–1953), one of America’s foremost
modernists. In this special exhibition of 50 drawings and paintings,
Marin’s
work from 1933 until his death in 1953 will be on view.
Beginning in 1914,
Marin drew inspiration from Maine’s forested mountains, picturesque towns, misty
harbors and rolling seas; in 1933, he began
living
part of each year on Cape Split, a remote and sparsely settled northern
peninsula in Pleasant
Bay.
His Cape Spilt
paintings exemplify a renewed enthusiasm for the abstract properties that had
always been a feature of his work. Flattening the
painterly
space and using floating forms and energetic brushwork, Marin transformed the
fleeting patterns of the natural world into innovative compositions—patterns
that would become some of the primary preoccupations of mid-century American
art.
John Marin: Modernism
at
Midcentury
has
been co-organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy and
the Portland Museum of Art, Portland,
Maine.
In addition to these
special exhibitions, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art will also mount
exhibitions of the work of Will Barnet (b. 1911)
and
photographer Subhankar Banerjee (b. 1967) in 2011. For more information about
the Amon Carter and upcoming exhibitions, visit
cartermuseum.org.
End
Tracy
Greene
Public
Information Officer
Amon
Carter Museum of American
Art
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