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last chance! splendid waves at peabody essex museum FEATURE CROSS COUNTRY MUST SEE LOANS

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Today, tomorrow (Oct. 3) final days of exhibit, In American Waters: The Sea in American Paintings, at Peabody Essex Museum.

Don’t be distracted by a simplistic thematic construct especially when it coaxes a mind game of “What about…?” as in: What about this artist or that one? Why aren’t they included? (Visual artists like May Stevens, Vija Celmins, Blanche Lazzell, Juane Quick to see Smith, April Gornik, Joan Nelson, Duncanson, Eric Aho, Morris graves, Rauschenberg, Fischl, Frankenthaler, Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Hopper, and Edward Hopper sprang readily to mind. And more Lawrence.) What about the de rigueur annual summer exhibitions at major galleries and institutions, since late 1880s? Aren’t the planet’s oceans a global motif not limited by media or place?

Ignore the categories or “chapters”.

Forget the sea change promise.

Just go.

Do make the must see trip to be awed and enjoy the momentous loans and great gift of seeing these selections displayed, together and their many moods of expression. Sensuous, tranquil, volatile, mysterious, distant, abstract–this major group show delivers art that conveys emotion, expressed and experienced.

installation view photos

photos: c. ryan, May 29, 2021

Stunning installation design

*mostly (scroll through till end for some misses)

individual works

in no particular order

Animated some to help bring you there:

Museum wall labels – 3d letters, Frederick Douglass quote

Major American lending institutions and private collections including:

Crystal Bridges

Crystal Bridges partnered with PEM, so naturally most loans were procured from Arkansas.

William Trost Richards; Richard Diebenkorn; Frank Benson; Amy Sherald; Marsden Hartley

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Charles Sheeler; Jan Matulka

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

William Trost Richards

New York, Metropolitan Museum

John Frederick Kensett

Collection of New York City

John Wesley Jarvis

Navy Art Collection

Hughie Lee Smith; Paul Cadmus

American Civil War Museum

Conrad Wise Chapman

Phillips Collection

John Sloan

Smithsonian

Stuart Davis; Hughie Lee Smith

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Cuneo

Brooklyn Museum

Rockwell Kent

MoMa Museum of Modern Art

Fletcher Martin

Wadsworth Athenaeum

Kensett

Cahoon Museum American Art

North Carolina Museum of Art

Luks

This show was also billed as one exhibition comprising PEM’s **new** Climate and Environmental Initiative. **Includes iconic American homoerotic art – Cadmus Fleet’s In and Fletcher Martin**

Installation views and museum labels more of a miss

Waters elsewhere on view from the Peabody Essex Museum

Josh Simpson megaplanet glass earth, 1989

Michael C. McMillen detail of The Pequod II

Sea Coco

installation view Rockman exhibit, May 29, 2021, see more here

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Last chAnce: In American Waters Peabody Essex Museum. splendid waves amazing loans. Go!

Posted on by Catherine

Today, tomorrow 10/3/2021 final days of exhibit, In American Waters: The Sea in American Paintings, at Peabody Essex Museum.

Don’t be distracted by a simplistic thematic construct especially when it coaxes a mind game of “What about…?” as in: What about this artist or that one? Why aren’t they included? (Visual artists like May Stevens, Vija Celmins, Blanche Lazzell, Juane Quick to see Smith, April Gornik, Joan Nelson, Duncanson, Eric Aho, Morris graves, Rauschenberg, Fischl, Frankenthaler, Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Hopper, and Edward Hopper sprang readily to mind. And more Lawrence.) What about the de rigueur annual summer exhibitions at major galleries and institutions, since late 1880s? Aren’t the planet’s oceans a global motif not limited by media or place? Ignore these categories or “chapters”.

Forget the sea change promise.

Just go!

Do make the must see trip to be awed and enjoy the momentous loans and great gift of seeing these selections displayed, together and their many moods of expression. Sensuous, tranquil, volatile, mysterious, distant, abstract–this major group show delivers art that conveys emotion, expressed and experienced.

installation views

C. Ryan May 29, 2021 – stunning installation design, mostly

individual works, no particular order

Animated some to help bring you there:

Museum wall labels – 3d letters, Frederick Douglass quote

Major American lending institutions and private collections including:

Crystal Bridges

Crystal Bridges partnered with PEM, so naturally most loans were procured from Arkansas.

William Trost Richards; Richard Diebenkorn; Frank Benson; Amy Sherald; Marsden Hartley

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Charles Sheeler; Jan Matulka

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

William Trost Richards

New York, Metropolitan Museum

John Frederick Kensett

Collection of New York City

John Wesley Jarvis

Navy Art Collection

Hughie Lee Smith; Paul Cadmus

American Civil War Museum

Conrad Wise Chapman

Phillips Collection

John Sloan

Smithsonian

Stuart Davis; Hughie Lee Smith

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Cuneo

Brooklyn Museum

Rockwell Kent

MoMa Museum of Modern Art

Fletcher Martin

Wadsworth Athenaeum

Kensett

Cahoon Museum American Art

North Carolina Museum of Art

Luks

This show was also billed as one exhibition comprising PEM’s **new** Climate and Environmental Initiative. **Includes iconic American homoerotic art – Cadmus Fleet’s In and Fletcher Martin**

Installation views and museum labels more of a miss

Waters elsewhere on view from the Peabody Essex Museum

Josh Simpson megaplanet glass earth, 1989

Michael C. McMillen detail of The Pequod II

Sea Coco

installation view Rockman exhibit, May 29, 2021, see more here

Continue reading “Last chAnce: In American Waters Peabody Essex Museum. splendid waves amazing loans. Go!” →

Edward Hopper at Oxford and T S Eliot at Turner Contemporary

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Several European museum shows in 2018 contain examples or are devoted to American 20th century artists and modernism like the ones curated for the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the Royal Academy, Tate Modern and British Museum.

Massachusetts loans boast the Edward Hopper painting Manhattan Bridge Loop from the Addison Gallery of Art collection, Phillips Academy, Andover, selected for America’s Cool Modernism at Oxford. Three Hopper etchings (The Cat Boat, Night Shadows, and The Railroad) are on the checklist. Hopper depicted Gloucester in over 110 works of art. Besides Hopper, notable artists and writer with various Gloucester connections selected are: Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, e e cummings, and Louis Lozowick.

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Forgot the cry of gulls and the deep sea swell

 

 

Upcoming at Turner Contemporary – “Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’   a major exhibition (Sat 3 Feb – Mon 7 May 2018) considering Eliot’s watershed poem through visal arts, and Margate. I hope they turn to Gloucester and Cape Ann, unspoken in the final poem yet approachable (and specified in excised iterations). From the museum’s press release:

“Presenting artworks from the 19th century to the present, including film, photography and artefacts, the exhibition explores how contemporary and historical art can enable us to reflect on the T. S. Eliot poem, The Waste Land, and its shifting flow of diverse voices, references, characters and places.

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If Not, Not (1975-6), R.B. Kitaj, National Galleries of Scotland

In 1921, T.S. Eliot spent a few weeks in Margate at a crucial moment in his career. He arrived in a fragile state, physically and mentally, and worked on The Waste Land. The poem was published the following year, and proved to be a pivotal and influential modernist work.  Building on Turner Contemporary’s extensive experience in participation and engagement, the exhibition is being co-curated with a research group of 30 volunteers from the community, supported by the programme team at Turner Contemporary and external curator Professor Mike Tooby. Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’ is being funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the John Ellerman Foundation.”

Motif Monday: Gloucester Oxbow

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Happily resigning myself in each season as it passes to the beauty and nature of Gloucester. At low tide, this vista has me at Oxbow.

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Thomas Cole (1801-1848),  The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm), 1836, oil on canvas, 52″ x 76″, highlight from the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hockney Hartley Whitney Wilkins

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“I like to live in the now.”

David Hockney’s exhibit opens at the Tate on February 9th as the fastest selling show in Tate exhibition history. It will come to the Metropolitan Museum of Art November 2017-February 2018.

In 2013 I wrote about “A major retrospective of David Hockney’s work completed over the last decade, A Bigger Exhibition (San Francisco, de Young Museum), has generated voluminous press and praise, mostly for his legacy of embracing new technology. Oh, and how old he is now, somehow compelling him to create before time runs out…(See a good overview of the de Young exhibit on Newshour but listen at 4:24 dispensing this cliché while introducing another. When hasn’t Hockney investigated any series, media or pursuit without daunting and constant focus?)”

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Marsden Hartley’s Maine will open at the The Met Breuer (former Whitney) March–June 2017. It will be at Colby (partnered with the Met) this summer. Cape Ann Museum has fantastic Hartleys.

The first Whitney Biennial presented at the new Whitney opens March 17 – June 11, 2017. Although there are no working artists residing in MA that are on the checklist, two artist filmmakers born in Massachusetts were selected: Robert Beavers and James N. Kienitz Wilkins.