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Woodmere Art Museum
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Exhibitions Now on ViewSpecial Exhibitions:
Permanent Collection Exhibitions: Millard Children's Exhibitions: Art of the Story: Narrative Paintings Narrative paintings tell stories drawn from history, mythology, literature, allegory and everyday life. Fine examples are on view from Woodmere’s permanent collection. Shelley Thorstensen  Shelley Thorstensen A Mother’s Heart, 2002 Etching, relief, and screen print, 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in. Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia Purchase, Charles Knox Smith Fund, 2003 Our eyes are tactile organs. We trace form, the feel of what we see; we see and remember. Thorstensen’s work takes an unmediated leap from vision to print. Traditional printmaking - intaglio, lithography and silkscreen - marry seamlessly in layer upon layer, attesting to external and internal reflections, to the duality of body and mind. Ultimately, Thorstensen uses printmaking technology as a tool, not unlike a brush on canvas, to create work that records the splendor around us as well as the uncertainty of our existence.
Philadelphia Story  In the last 30 years, interest in figurative painting has returned worldwide. Philadelphia’s own rich native tradition of image-based painting has grown as the city’s artists have followed pluralistic and often idiosyncratic paths. Offering a range of approaches to imagery, meaning, and metaphor in contemporary painting, this exhibition, curated by Sarah Roche, offers a unique Philadelphia vision of figurative and narrative painting. This exhibition features the works of 17 exceptional Philadelphia artists:
Anne Canfield, Mike Cole, Sidney Goodman, Frank Hyder, Jane Irish, Kate Javens, Rob Matthews, Pamela McCabe, Sarah McEneaney, Susan Moore, Jen Packer, Sarah Roche, Hiro Sakaguchi, Bob Scheib, Charles Schmidt, Mark Shetabi, and Ira Upin.
Sam Maitin (1928-2004) Sam Maitin: Prints and Places August 21-October 17 With an astonishing facility for color and form, textures and text, and with a wildly prolific output, Sam Maitin became one of the most beloved and vital artists in Philadelphia. Known for his site-specific artworks, his amazing ability with collage, and his brilliant poster design, this exhibition features 30 prints newly added to the Woodmere Permanent Collection including Curwen Series prints, SANE Peace Awards, as well as other works rarely seen. Also, studies surrounding the creation of his site-specific projects (works of art in themselves) will reveal the joyful collision of play and intelligence that Sam placed in all he did. Fred Wagner: American Painter - A Family Perspective August 21-October 17 Gallery Stroll and Book-signing: Sunday, October 3, 3-4pm with Susan Brendlinger Smith and Cyndy Drue authors of Fred Wagner – An American Painter, and grandnieces of the artist. Bring the kids! Born at the time of the Civil War, Wagner was a student of and assistant to Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anshutz at the cradle of American Art in Philadelphia. He was a painter of the West, newspaper illustrator, and a witness to the birth of Modernism at the 1913 Armory Show. Wagner was a decades-long master of the brooding American industrial cityscapes during the 20’s and 30’s, a plein-air master and intimate portraitist, husband, teacher, friend, and fine artist. And here as a favorite uncle, we see in this exhibit his gentle, caring views of his own American families at the beaches of the New Jersey shore, scenes of nieces and nephews dancing in lilting Pennsylvania farmscapes and playing in the uniquely iconic suburban American backyard. Surviving Ourselves: 150 Years of Friendship in the Arts August 21-October 17 A sample of present-day masters of the Sketch Club represented in Woodmere’s Permanent Collection: Moe Brooker, William Campbell, Richard Chew, Reinhold Edelschein, Frances Galante, Jack Gerber, Al Gury, Alex Kanevsky, Harold Kimmelman, Alan Klawans, Donald Meyer, Bill Scott, Stuart Shils, Joe Sweeney, and James Toogood are reviewed, along with a comprehensive account of the ‘black-tie’ highs and ‘Bohemian’ lows of Philadelphia’s own “oldest, continuing, all-volunteer contemporary artists’ club.”
Bill Scott, A City Square, 2007,
John Folinsbee and American Modernism, 1920-1940 November 6 - March 6, 2011 Curated by Kirsten Jensen, Ph. D., Director, John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné
Collecting Ourselves: Then, Now and Next November 6- March 6, 2011 This is a group of three expositions separated by time period but joined by insight. Through three periods, “Then” (19th century from 1870 through 1893), “Now” (20th century from 1900 to 1935) and “Next” (21st century up to the present) our expositions thread the insight that it is the single collector’s personality and interest, joined with that of contemporary artists and their work, that can have immense impact on international art far into their future and beyond. In “Then,” the 19th-century Philadelphian, Fairman Rogers, with the painter Thomas Eakins and photographer Eadweard Muybridge, revolutionized the treatment of the human figure in art with their obsession with the human body suspended in motion, time and space. In “Now”, a 20th-century Philadelphian art-collecting couple, Sam and Vera White, continues re-imagining involvement with the figure with artists (influenced by Rogers/Eakins/Muybridge) Auguste Rodin, Charles Demuth, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp and his circle of influence included the Whites and fellow-collectors and it was his treatment of the figure that has carried us, in its most profound issues, to the international arts of our present, 21st -century patronage of installation, video, digital cinema and web art, the subject of newly commissioned work by Woodmere for our third exposition, “Next.” Permanent Collection exhibitionsKindred Spirits: Woodmere and the Philadelphia Sketch Club Woodmere Art Museum and the Philadelphia Sketch Club have always had an intimate relationship with local artists. As a tribute to the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s 150th anniversary and to the positive difference it has made to the cultural life of Philadelphia, Woodmere has reached into its treasure trove of art and selected a rich sampling of works produced by members of the Sketch Club. In many cases, the featured artists played important roles in the life of both institutions.
Frederic Edwin Church A permanent installation of Charles Knox Smith’s collection of decorative arts, furniture, and paintings. Artworks include: The Spirit of Peace by Jasper Cropsey and Sunset in the Berkshire Hills by Frederic Edwin Church. |
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