Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
Spring 2010
I Heard a Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill
January 24–April 25, 2010
Detail: Rise, 2006-07, laminated fabric, hand-dyed cotton, paper, metal, and silk organza with cotton, 20 x 50 x 6 feet, by Lesley Dill (American, b. 1950). Courtesy of the artist and George Adams Gallery, New York.
For the last twenty years, contemporary artist Lesley Dill has consistently explored the human form, sensory experience, language, and their interactions. Dill uses bronze, photography, poetry, thread, wire, and paper to sculpt her figures and build her tapestries, producing work that might be characterized as both ephemeral and spiritual. Organized by the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, in conjunction with George Adams Gallery, New York.
John Bull and His Dog Faithful, 1796, hand-colored engraving on paper, 10 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches, by James Gillray (British, 1756-1815). Gift of Frank '42 and Eleanor '41 Gifford. Courtesy of the Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University.
"Licenc'd to Bark": James Gillray and the Art of Satire
February 2–May 16, 2010
This exhibition will feature the socially biting, often hysterical, hand-colored engravings of James Gillray, who is often credited with single-handedly inventing the genre of the British satirical print. Drawn from the collection of the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University and presented in partnership with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities as part of the third annual Moments of Change multidisciplinary initiative, "Dare to Know!" The Late 18th Century, 1776–1801.
Veduta del Sepolcro di Cajo Cestio (View of the Pyramid of Caius Cestius), 1755, etching, first state of six; plate: 15 1/8 x 20 3/16 inches; sheet 20 7/8 x 26 13/16 inches, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778). Collection of the Palmer Museum of Art.
Italian Old Master Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection
February 16–May 23, 2010
The Palmer Museum of Art looks to its permanent collection for this exhibition of etchings and engravings made by Italian artists or by others working in Italy during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The majority of prints on view will be drawn from the large group of etchings and engravings collected by former Penn State art history professor Francis E. Hyslop.
Summer 2010
Area Code, 1969, lithograph (right sheet), 21 1/8 x 23 7/8 inches, by James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933). Collection of the Palmer Museum of Art.
Recent Acquisitions
May 25–October 17, 2010
This exhibition will highlight several
important recent additions to the
permanent collection including pho-
tographs by Gertrude Käsebier, Mar-
garet Bourke-White, Ruth Bernhard,
and Joel-Peter Witkin, and prints
by Norman Lewis, Jim Dine, James
Rosenquist, and John Baldessari.
Prints by Sculptors from the Collection of James and Betty Myford
June 8–September 12, 2010
Untitled, 1968, lithograph, 25 x 33 inches, by Lynn Chadwick (English, 1914–2003). Collection of James and Betty Myford.
This exhibition presents a selection
of prints by prominent twentieth-
century sculptors and invites viewers
to witness artists “shifting gears” as
they think in two, rather than three
dimensions.
A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections
July 6–September 26, 2010
Virginia Woolf, c. 1912, oil on paperboard, 14 1/2 x 12 inches, by Vanessa Bell (British, 1879–1961). Collection of the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton Massachusetts. Gift of Ann Safford Mandel, class of 1953.
This major exhibition of paintings, drawings, books, and decorative work exemplifies the complex artistic output of the Bloomsbury group, a close-knit group of modernist artists—including Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and Dora Carrington—who worked in the orbit of other intellectuals, among them novelists Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster.
The exhibition and accompanying catalogue were organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in conjunction with the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
Fall 2010
Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in American Painting, 1860–1900
September 28–December 19, 2010
At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750
Industrial Imagery from The John P. Eckblad Collection
October 19, 2010–January 23, 2011
Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, the exhibition was organized and is being circulated by the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with funding provided by the William Hayes Ackland Trust.
Atelier 17 in America: 1940–1955
October 26, 2010–February 20, 2011
Spring 2011
John Rogers: American Stories
February 22–May 15, 2011
Summer 2011
Associated American Artists: Art By Subscription
May 29–August 7, 2011
Associated American Artists: Art By Subscription is organized by the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio, and circulated by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, Missouri.
