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Holland of the Imagination:
Dutch Prints and Drawings of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
November 20, 2001–February 3, 2002
This exhibition examines a wide variety of images, themes, and genres by artists of the Golden Age in Holland. Among the highlights are fifteen etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn. The exhibition precedes an interdisciplinary symposium, "Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe: The Dutch Experience," at the Whitney Humanities Center.
Organized by Suzanne Boorsch, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs; Bryan Wolf, Professor of American Studies and English; and Christopher Wood, Professor of the History of Art. Supported by The Robert Lehman Exhibition and Publication Fund.
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John Singer Sargent: The Painter as Sculptor
October 19–April 21, 2001
In 1916–17, John Singer Sargent made a series of thirty-four small bas reliefs and one freestanding sculpture in plaster as studies for the dome of the rotunda at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The artist’s sisters gave these to Yale in 1929 to encourage scholarly study of Sargent’s methods. Recent conservation, funded by the Barker Welfare Foundation, makes it possible to exhibit these revealing works for the first time.
Organized by Helen Cooper, the Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture. Supported by the Friends of American Arts at Yale and the Jan and Warren Adelson Fund in honor of Eugénie Prendergast.
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The Art of Mu Xin:
Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes
October 12–December 9, 2001
Mu Xin (born 1927), one of the most unusual writer-artists of the twentieth century, created this suite of thirty-three landscape paintings, all from the Rosenkranz Foundation Collection, while under house arrest in China in the late 1970s. The images fuse the literary and artistic sensibilities of East and West. Prison Notes was written earlier, while the artist was in solitary confinement.
Exhibition and publication organized by Alexandra Monroe, Director of the Japan Society; Wu Hung, Professor at the University of Chicago; and for Yale by David Sensabaugh, Curator of Asian Art. Supported by the Rosenkranz Foundation. |
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Rediscovering Fra Angelico:
A Fragmentary History
September 28–December 30, 2001
A highly focused exhibition, bringing together previously separated panels of an altarpiece by the Renaissance master Fra Angelico (ca. 1395–1455). The panels on view come from the collections of the Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum and were identified as parts of the same work by Laurence Kanter, Curator-in-Charge, Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Organized by Clay Dean, Research Associate, Yale University Art Gallery. |
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Myer Myers:
Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York
September 14–December 30, 2001
A major exhibition featuring 104 silver and gold objects created by Myer Myers (1723–1795), one of the most accomplished and productive craftsmen working in preindustrial America. The installation shows the silversmith's stylistic development and the ways his patrons, represented here by their portraits, influenced his choices. A survey of the Jewish communities to which Myers was connected in New York, Philadelphia, and Newport, Rhode Island, and an examination of the silversmith's trade in New York are part of the exhibition.
Exhibition and publication organized by David L. Barquist, Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts. The exhibition was supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and generous contributions from the Maurice Amado Foundation, the Decorative Arts Society, Mr. Robert M. Rubin, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Holzer, Mr. and Mrs. E. Martin Wunsch, S. J. Shrubsole, Inc., an anonymous donor, and a bequest of Mrs. Lelia M. Wardwell. The publication was supported by generous contributions by The Paul and Elissa Cahn Foundation, the Roy J. Zuckerberg Family Foundation, and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard G. Palitz. |
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A Gallery of Poems
August 21–November 4, 2001
This exhibition is part of the "poet project," a pairing of twenty-two poems by Yale alumni/ae with paintings, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts objects from the permanent collection of twentieth-century art. It celebrates the publication of Words for Images: A Gallery of Poems, edited by John Hollander, Sterling Professor of English, and Joanna Weber, Assistant Curator of European and Contemporary Art. |
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A Moment Ongoing:
The Legacy of Everett V. Meeks
April 20–July 15, 2001
Organized by the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, this exhibition expands on one of the areas touched on in the larger exhibition Art for Yale: Defining Moments, the contribution made by Everett V. Meeks, Dean of the School of Fine Arts from 1920 to 1947, whose will established an endowment fund to acquire works of art on paper. Since its establish-ment, it has made possible the acquisition of 800 prints, 230 drawings, and 25 photographs for the collection, many of which are on display here.
Organized by the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. |
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Art for Yale: Defining Moments
April 19–August 19, 2001
Significant artworks from each of the museum's curatorial departments have been selected for this major exhibition tracing the growth of the Yale University Art Gallery's collections from the time of its founding, in 1832, to the end of the twentieth century. The focus is on those objects that were either the first of their kind to be acquired, single masterpieces, or part of groundbreaking collections that changed the range, depth, and teaching possibilities of the museum.
Exhibition and publication organized by Susan B. Matheson, the Molly and Walter Bareiss Curator of Ancient Art. Supported by a grant from The Robert Lehman Foundation. |
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Objective Color
February 2–August 19, 2001
The specificity of color appeals to artists interested in creating work that is objectively real, rather than using color as a means of representation. Ranging across a spectrum of practices by artists from Marcel Duchamp to Alex Katz, this exhibition presents the transcendent life of color’s real and free form in art.
Organized by Jennifer Gross, the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Supported by Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, B.A. 1956.
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From Caligula to Constantine:
Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture
January 30–March 25, 2001
The importance of portraiture as a form of mass media in the ancient world is considered in this exhibition of some fifty works focusing on the "bad" emperors and empresses of Rome. Flattering depictions in sculpture, gems, and coins would broadcast a ruler's image throughout the empire, but when he, or occasionally she, was overthrown in disgrace, the object would be destroyed or, as this exhibition shows, reworked.
Exhibition and publication organized by the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, and organized for Yale by Susan Matheson, the Molly and Walter Bareiss Curator of Ancient Art. Supported in part by The David T. Langrock Foundation, The Robert Lehman Exhibition and Publication Fund, and a generous donation from Jan and Frederick Mayer, B.A. 1950. |
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Ancient and Moderns: Tradition and Transformation in the Arts of Asia, Parts I and II
January 16–April 1, 2001
and April 17–September 2, 2001
Exploring the ways the past has inspired Asian artists working in a variety of media, this exhibition juxtaposes works from as early as the fourth millennium and as recent as the twentieth century, allowing comparisons and revealing ways in which the past has served as a source of renewal or as a tradition to be rejected.
Organized by David Sensabaugh, Curator, and Sadako Ohki, Assistant Curator of Asian Art.
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