Everyday Monuments: The Photographs of Jerome Liebling
May 23–September 7, 2008
 
This monographic exhibition features approximately fifty photographs by American artist Jerome Liebling. Active since the 1940s, Liebling has explored a variety of photographic themes including social-documentary photographs of people and places, poetic images of the relics and physical remnants of literary figures, and photographs of mannequins and corpses. The body of work on display includes representative examples from the many facets of Liebling’s practice.

Exhibition organized by Yale students under the direction of Pamela Franks, Deputy Director for Collections and Education, and Aja Armey, Museum Educator, both of the Yale University Art Gallery. Supported by The Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund, and The Nolen-Bradley Family and Jane and Gerald Katcher Funds for Education. Image: Jerome Liebling, Butterfly Boy, New York City, 1949. Gelatin silver print. Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from Jane and Gerald Katcher, LL.B. 1950, and the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund
From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry
May 23–September 7, 2008

From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry celebrates the remarkable collection of over two hundred photographs brought together by Doris Bry and currently on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery. A noted scholar of eminent American photographer Alfred Stieglitz, Bry is perhaps best known as the agent and confidant of Stieglitz’s wife, the painter Georgia O’Keeffe. Her collection includes photographs by renowned masters, such as Irving Penn and Berenice Abbott, as well as intriguing works by lesser-known artists, and includes examples of a wide range of styles and photographic media.

Exhibition organized by Yale students under the direction of Pamela Franks, Deputy Director for Collections and Education, and Ash Anderson, PH.D candidate in the History of Art, both of the Yale University Art Gallery. Supported by the John F. Wieland, Jr., B.A. 1988, Fund for Student Exhibitions, and The Nolen-Bradley Family and Jane and Gerald Katcher Funds for Education. Image: Albert Renger-Patzsch, Untitled (St. Malo), ca. 1942. Gelatin silver print. Doris Bry Inadvertent Collection
Van Gogh’s Cypresses and The Starry Night: Visions of Saint-Rémy
June 15–September 7, 2008

The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit two of Vincent van Gogh’s most renowned paintings, Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and The Starry Night (Museum of Modern Art, New York), side by side for the first time. Completed in June 1889, during his yearlong confinement at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, these two paintings exemplify the work of this modern master at the height of his creativity. In both works, van Gogh’s dazzling use of clear, bold colors laid down in swirling, gestural strokes demonstrates his expressive and imaginative power. Together, Cypresses and The Starry Night reveal the artist’s vivid and tender vision of Saint-Rémy as he observed the French countryside from his window—by day and through the night.

Installation organized by Jennifer Gross, the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery. Supported by an endowment created with a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Image: Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest
Behind the Seen: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell
June 24–August 10, 2008

This exhibition provides an in-depth look at the role that artworks and monuments play in Abelardo Morell’s major photographic series. Approximately forty images are on display, featuring Morell’s work in black and white alongside his newest color photographs, and including twenty of his camera obscura images. The exhibition also features a special camera obscura room, which invites visitors to enter the space of one of the artist’s pictures. Morell is the current Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence at the Yale University Art Gallery and is creating new work based on the Gallery’s collections. Several recent photographs made at the museum are on view for the first time.

Exhibition organized by Anna Hammond, Deputy Director for Programs and Public Affairs, and Christine Paglia, the Florence B. Selden Curatorial Intern in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, both of the Yale University Art Gallery. Supported by an endowment created with a challenge grant from the National Endowmenfor the Arts with additional support provided by Professor and Mrs. Robinson A. Grover, B.A. 1958, M.S.L. 1975. Image: Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura Image of Houses Across the Street in Our Living Room, 1991. Gelatin silver print.