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Circa 1701:
Printed Portraits from the Time of Elihu Yale
December 19, 2000–April 1, 2001
Fifty printed portraits of Elihu Yale's contemporaries, from kings and queens to writers, artists, and composers, constitute a time capsule of the world Yale knew three hundred years ago. Included is the first mezzotint printed in America, a portrait of Cotton Mather made by Peter Pelham. Another highlight is the first printed portrait from life of a Native American, made in Europe by Wenceslaus Hollar.
Organized by Suzanne Boorsch, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
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Call and Response: Journeys of African Art
December 15, 2000–March 25, 2001
This exhibition of African masks, sculptures, textiles, and mixed-media works from two outstanding private collections considers the ways migration and other forms of interchange on the African continent and throughout the world have transformed African art and aesthetics.
Exhibition and publication organized by doctoral candidates Sarah Adams, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, and Lyneise Williams. |
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Love and Loss:
American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
October 30–December 30, 2000
A major exhibition of close to 140 miniatures from the permanent collection along with promised bequests and important loans. The installation, which includes specially created videos and the tools of the miniaturist, explores art-historical and technical issues, as well as the strong ties between the miniature and the history of private life in America. America.
Exhibition and publication organized by Robin Jaffee Frank, Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture. Supported in part by The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency. Additional support came from the Virginia and Leonard Marx Publication Fund and the Mrs. Lelia Wardwell Bequest. Conservation was supported by the Getty Grant Program. |
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The Miniature in the Arts of Asia
September 5–December 10, 2000
Netsuke, inro, cosmetic boxes, and other miniature objects are interspersed with larger paintings, screens and decorative objects featuring minutely detailed workmanship.
Organized by David Sensabaugh, Curator, and Sadako Ohki, Assistant Curator of Asian Art. |
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The Body Politic:
The Evolution of Political Satire in Print
September 1–November 26, 2000
The exhibition traces the emergence and continued popularity of political caricature in the history of Western printmaking, from Pieter Bruegel the Elder to Red Grooms and Andy Warhol. The works are selected from the permanent collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University.
Organized by Lisa Hodermarsky, Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. |
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The Persistence of Photography
in American Portraiture
August 22–November 26, 2000
This exhibition surveys a broad range of modern and contemporary photographic portraits and portraits inspired by photographic process and practice. The works come primarily from the museum’s permanent collection.
Organized by Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director, with the assistance of Jason Kakoyiannis, doctoral candidate, History of Art |
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Southern Exposure:
Works by Winfred Rembert
August 22–November 26, 2000
A group of linocuts from Hale Woodruff's Atlanta Portfolio are paired with paintings on tooled and carved leather by the self-taught New Haven artist Winfred Rembert. Together they present indelible images of racially-segregated rural Georgia in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
Organized by Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director, and Mary L. Kordak, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Curator of Education. |
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Dance of the Dragon:
Fabulous Beasts in Asian Art
May 9–August 6, 2000
Celebrating the Chinese Year of the Dragon, this exhibition, one in a series of thematic installations that showcase Yale's collections of Asian art, traces the image of the dragon and other fabulous beasts from early bronzes to ceramics and textiles.
Organized by David Sensabaugh, Curator, and Sadako Ohki, Assistant Curator of Asian Art.
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Imaging African Art:
Documentation and Transformation
May 9–July 30, 2000
An exploration of the ways twentieth-century artists have imaged and imagined Africa since the diaspora. Artists represented include Albert Chong, Walker Evans, Joy Gregory, Wilmer Jennings, Lois Mailou Jones, Barry LeVa, Moira Pernambuco, Lorna Simpson, Charles Sheeler, Carrie Mae Weems, and Hale Woodruff.
Organized by Daniell Cornell, the Florence B. Selden Fellow of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, and Cheryl Finley, doctoral candidate, History of Art. |
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Philip Guston: A New Alphabet
April 25–July 30, 2000
Focusing on a four-year period from 1968 to 1972 in the career of the American artist Philip Guston (1913–1980), in which the artist made a transition from a lyrical Abstract Expressionism to figurative painting, the exhibition has as its centerpiece twenty-seven small paintings of individual objects—cups, cars, watches, klansmen—his visual alphabet for later, large compositions.
Organized by Joanna Weber, Acting Curator of European and Contemporary Art. Supported by Lyn and Gerry Grinstein and Robert and Anna Marie Shapiro. |
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Modern Gothic: The Revival of Medieval Art
April 4–July 30, 2000
This exhibition focuses on the interaction between the Gothic Revival in England and in America, in the context of its social and intellectual history. The more than one hundred works of medieval and Gothic Revival art range from paintings and sculpture to architectural drawings and decorative-arts objects.
Organized
by Susan B. Matheson, the Molly and Walter Bareiss Curator of Ancient Art, and Derek D. Churchill, doctoral candidate, History of Art. Supported by the Connecticut Humanities Council.
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