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Justice on Trial:
Ben Shahn’s Case for Sacco and Vanzetti
October 15–December 29, 2002
The response of Ben Shahn (1898–1969) to the trial and 1927 execution for murder of the anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti is the subject of this exhibition, which includes two major paintings, both titled The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, and ten related gouaches, all on loan from public and private collections. Archival materials place Shahn’s work in context and give viewers further insight into the issues surrounding the case on its seventy-fifth anniversary.
Organized by Robin Jaffee Frank, Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, and Amy Kurtz Lansing, the Marcia Brady Tucker Curatorial Intern. Supported by an endowment made possible by a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Yale Collects Wood
September 10–December 1, 2002
Displayed in the McNeil Corridor, adjacent to the wood turning exhibition, these thirty-seven wooden objects by twenty-five different artists are a gift to Yale from Robyn Horn, a wood turner and sculptor, and her husband John.
Organized by Patricia E. Kane, Curator of American Decorative Arts. |
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Wood Turning in North America Since 1930
September 10–December 1, 2002
This major traveling exhibition, which includes 134 objects, explores the ways wood turning evolved during the twentieth century from technical process to a craft concerned with aesthetics and personal expression. The objects range from simple bowls to unique, often whimsical sculptural pieces made from a seemingly infinite variety of woods.
Exhibition and publication organized by Albert LeCoff, Executive Director of the Wood Turning Center of Philadelphia; Patricia E. Kane, Curator of American Decorative Arts; Edward S. Cooke, Jr., the Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts; and Glenn Adamson, doctoral candidate, History of Art. Supported in part by the Windgate Charitable Foundation, the Barra Foundation, the Chipstone Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency. Additional support has been provided by Robyn and John Horn, Jane and Arthur Mason, Ruth and David Waterbury, and the Wornick Family Foundation.
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From Homer to Hopper:
Masters of American Watercolor
December 3, 2002–June 8, 2003
An exhibition of twenty-six works from the Gallery’s rich collection of American watercolors, ranging from the swiftly noted idea to the color-saturated sheet, from mystical empathy with nature to realistic transcriptions of place. Of those artists represented, some, most notably Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent, are known equally for their oil and watercolor paintings, and others, such as Charles Burchfield, Charles Demuth, John Marin, Maurice Prendergast, and are known primarily as watercolorists.
Organized by Helen A. Cooper, the Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture. Supported by the Friends of American Arts at Yale. |
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Nine African-American Quilters
May 14–November 10, 2002
This exhibition includes nine boldly colored, asymmetrically designed quilts by African-American women primarily from Boykin, a farming community in a bend of the Alabama River. The quilts were collected by John Scully, a resident of New Haven.
Organized by Patricia E Kane, Curator of American Decorative Arts, and Mary Kordak, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Curator of Education. Supported by the Friends of American Arts at Yale. |
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Frankenthaler: The Woodcuts
May 14 – September 9, 2002
The first exhibition to focus solely on Helen Frankenthaler’s twenty-three influential woodcuts, created between 1973 and 2000. In addition to exploring the ways the artist extended the technical possibilities of the woodcut, the exhibition includes numerous states and proofs.
Exhibition and publication organized by Judith Goldman, guest curator, Naples Museum of Art, Florida, and for Yale by Suzanne Boorsch, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. Supported by the Janet and Simeon Braguin fund. |
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Looking at America
April 23—July 28, 2002
A range of works in a variety of media by twelve contemporary artists who record a landscape that is culturally self-conscious, offering artificial views of nature. Artists include Burt Barr, Uta Barth, Gregory Crewdson, Adam Cvijanovic, Heide Fasnacht, Sven Påhlsson, Edward Ruscha, and Tony Tasset.
Organized by Jennifer Gross, the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of European and Contemporary Art. Supported by the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund and an endowment made possible by a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Robert Adams: What We Bought, The New World and Lewis Baltz: Park City
April 23—July 28, 2002
Concurrent with the Emmet Gowin exhibition, recently acquired photographic surveys by two other leading American photographers, Robert Adams (born 1937) and Lewis Baltz (born 1945), are exhibited. Both photographers record the abuse of the earth, particularly in the West of the United States. The Adams portfolio documents the ruinous development of the Denver metropolitan area from promised land to banal suburbia. The Baltz portfolio consists of 102 images taken in 1978 and 1979 that document the construction of Park City, Utah, and its transformation from a ghost town littered with the debris of abandoned mines to one of the sites of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Organized by Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director. |
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Emmet Gowin:
Changing the Earth, Aerial Photographs
April 23—July 28, 2002
Emmet Gowin began making aerial photographs in 1986 when he first photographed the results of the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens. Since then he has focused on landscapes that have been altered by human activity. The ninety-two aerial pictures presented in this exhibition and its catalogue offer a unique perspective on the military test sites, missile silos, weapons storage and disposal sites, toxic-water-treatment facilities, mining operations, pivot-irrigation agriculture, off-road motor traffic, petrochemical works, and other sites that Gowin has visited in the United States, Kuwait, Japan, and the Czech Republic.
Other venues: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (October 26, 2002-January 6, 2003); Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California at Davis (February 6-March 14, 2003); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (April 18-July 13, 2003); Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ (October 17, 2003-January 4, 2004); James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA (January 17-April 4, 2004); El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX (May 2-July 18, 2004); Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (August 7-November 7, 2004)
Exhibition and publication organized by Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, and produced by the Yale University Art Gallery in association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Yale University Press. Generous support was provided by Jane Watkins, M.P.H. 1979, Anna Marie and Robert Shapiro, B.A. 1956, Julia and Harrison Augur, B.A. 1964, Raymond and Helen DuBois, B.A. 1978, Evelyn and Robert Doran, B.A. 1955, Carolyn and Gerald Grinstein, B.A. 1954, Eliot Nolen, B.A. 1984, and Timothy Bradley, B.A. 1983, Lindsay McCrum, B.A. 1980, Richard and Ronay Menschel, Betsy Frampton, Carol and Sol LeWitt, an anonymous donor, the Mr. and Mrs. George Rowland, B.A. 1933, Fund, and the Heinz Family Foundation. |
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The Synthetic Century: Collage from Cubism to Postmodernism
February 19–April 28, 2002
Selections from the Gallery’s permanent collection trace the powerful role collage has played in twentieth-century art and the ways it has influenced nearly every artistic movement from its invention during the explorations of Cubism to the present day. Artists represented include Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, and Jessica Stockholder.
Organized by Lisa Hodermarsky, Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. Supported by a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Between Language and Form
January 29–March 30, 2002
This exhibition brings together the work of contemporary artists whose philosophic and aesthetic explorations are similar to those of the contributors to the magazine The Tiger’s Eye, more than half a century ago. Among the artists represented are John Baldessari, Johanna Drucker, Roni Horn, and Richard Tuttle.
Organized by Jennifer Gross, the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of European and Contemporary Art. Supported by the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund and an endowment made possible by a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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The Tiger’s Eye: The Art of a Magazine
January 29-March 30, 2002
The exhibition brings together fifty works of art—paintings, sculpture, and works on paper—from Yale’s permanent collection and numerous other public and private collections that were reproduced in Ruth and John Stephan’s quarterly magazine of art and literature The Tiger’s Eye, between 1947 and 1949. Among the artists represented are Milton Avery, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Jean Dubuffet, Arshile Gorky, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Kay Sage, and Rufino Tomayo, as well as John Stephan himself.
Exhibition and publication organized by Pamela Franks, the Florence B. Selden Fellow of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. Supported by the Florence B. Selden Endowment and donations from Mrs. John Stephan, Ms. Susan Morse Hilles, and an anonymous donor. |
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The 1948 Directors of the Société Anonyme Exhibition
January 29–March 30, 2002
This is a re-creation of an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the directors of the Société Anonyme held at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1948, in celebration of the seventieth birthday of the artist-collector Katherine Dreier. It includes work by Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, all founders of the collection, as well as Henry Campendonck, Naum Gabo, and Wassily Kandinsky.
Organized by Jennifer Gross, the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of European and Contemporary Art. Supported by a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Robert Lehman Exhibition and Publication Fund. |
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Art for All Seasons: Asian Art at Yale
January 23–September 1, 2002
This exhibition showcases such recent acquisitions as a Jain stele, a section of a Chinese temple wall painting, and a Japanese lacquer box, as well as a wide range of objects from the permanent collection. While the focus is primarily on Chinese and Japanese art, South Asian cultures are also represented.
Organized by David Sensabaugh, Curator, and Sadako Ohki, Assistant Curator of Asian Art. |
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