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EXHIBITIONS ON TOUR |
On View
Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects
February 9-May 25, 2008
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| Edouard Vuillard Interior with a Red Bed or the Bridal Chamber, 1893. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Promised gift of Roger and Victoria Sant, 2007 © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY/ADAGP, Paris |
This exhibition will celebrate an extraordinary array of newly acquired and promised gifts to the museum. It will feature nearly 100 works by European and American modern masters including Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas,
Hans Hofmann, Paul Klee, Ansel Adams, Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Richard Diebenkorn, Elizabeth Murray, Robert Motherwell, Aaron Siskind, and David Smith, as well as living artists William Christenberry, Howard Hodgkin, Ellsworth Kelly, Sean Scully, and many others. The strength and variety of these gifts and acquisitions include some of the most significant developments in painting,
photography, works on paper, and sculpture from the 19th to the 21st century.
This exhibition is supported by the Lichtenberg Family Foundation and Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan.
Click for Director Jay Gates’s introduction to Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects
(http://www.youtube.com/v/jUZuK5iKF1U)
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| Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series (1940-41, Panel No. 1 During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans. Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 inches The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Acquired 1942 © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
The Great American Epic:
Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
May 3-October 26, 2008
The complete 60-panel series, rarely seen in its entirely, will be on view
Oct. 26, 2008 exclusively at the Phillips. Told through vivid patterns and colors, this masterpiece of narrative painting is the first ever produced on the great
20th-century exodus of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. The exhibition will take an in-depth look at Lawrence’s powerful interpretation of this significant moment in American history and examine how the story still resonates today.
Click for Curator Elsa Smithgall’s introduction to The Great American Epic: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series
(http://www.youtube.com/v/5Ym3MiWjfp4)
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Diebenkorn in New Mexico
June 21 – September 7, 2008
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Richard Diebenkorn |
This exhibition will be the first to concentrate on the body of works created during Richard Diebenkorn’s formative and relatively little-known Albuquerque period of 1950-52, including paintings, works on paper and a rare sculpture made from welded scrap iron. As a student at the University of New Mexico, Diebenkorn developed a highly individual approach to his art, responding to the particular color and light of his surroundings and laying a foundation for all his future painting and drawing, whether representational or abstract. The exhibition will provide a context for the outstanding group of works by Diebenkorn that constitutes an essential unit of the Phillips’s permanent collection. It is organized by The Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico.
Organized by the Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, University of New Mexico, with major support from the Thaw Charitable Trust, the Richard Diebenkorn Estate, and the Peter and Madeleine Martin Foundation.
Proudly sponsored at The Phillips Collection by
Additional support provided by Joann and Gifford Phillips and Toni A. Ritzenberg
Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow
June 21 – September 7, 2008
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Brett Weston, Yucca and Brush, White Sands1946. Silver gelatin print. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. |
This major retrospective exhibition will feature photographs taken by Brett Weston (1911–1993) from the 1920s through the 1980s. The son of famed photographer Edward
Weston, Brett developed an understanding of form and composition at an early age.
Throughout his career, Weston manipulated the technical qualities of the camera to frame
objects close up and push subject matter toward abstraction. These experiments placed
him at the forefront of non-objective fine-art photography. Brett Weston: Out of the
Shadow will include landscape photographs of the West, views of New York City, and
abstracted forms and textures from nature. The exhibition will also highlight a selection
of recent gifts from Christian K. Keesee and the Brett Weston Archive.
Co-organized by The Phillips Collection and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
The exhibition is supported in part by The Judith Rothschild Foundation
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Over the River
October 11, 2008-January 25, 2009
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Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado Photo: Wolfgang Volz, Copyright Christo 2006 |
Washington , D.C. – Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Over The River, a Work in Progress, an exhibition of more than 150 photographs, collages, drawings, and maps, will chronicle the artists’ process as they prepare to assemble and suspend massive silvery fabric panels over the Arkansas River in Colorado. Highlighting The Phillips Collection’s longstanding commitment to representing important developments in modern and contemporary art, the exhibition at The Phillips will be followed by a national tour.
The Phillips’s exhibition will trace the development of this ambitious project over the past 16 years by displaying the process and materials that will be used to accomplish the artistic and engineering feat. It will be accompanied by a catalogue, and the museum will also screen documentary films on the projects of Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
Exhibitions On Tour
American Impressionism: Paintings from The Phillips Collection
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| Gifford Beal (1879-1956), On the Hudson at Newburgh, 1918, Oil on canvas, 36 x 58 ½ in., The Phillips Collection, acquired 1924n |
This exhibition highlights paintings that were among the museum's earliest acquisitions. Featured artists will be Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, Theodore Robinson, Robert Spencer, Augustus Vincent Tack, John Henry Twachtman, and Julian Alden Weir, among others. As members of the first generation of American painters to absorb the technique, brighter palette, and subject matter of impressionism from their French counterparts, these artists painted atmospheric landscapes, park and beach scenes, urban views, and charming interiors, with particular interest in optical effects, light, and different seasons. The exhibition will show how American painting around the turn of the 20th century was enriched by the impressionist aesthetic.
This exhibition has been organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
The exhibition and national tour are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts
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June 16 -September 16, 2007 |
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
Corot to Picasso: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks
from The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.
September 15, 2008 – January 15, 2009
Palazzo Baldeschi, Perugia, Italy
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| Amedeo Modigliani. Portrait of Elena Pavlowski. 1917. Oil on canvas. 64.8 x 48.9 cm. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
In the fall of 2008, to mark the 100th year of the Foundation Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, an exhibition of thirty masterworks from The Phillips Collection will be presented at the Palazzo Baldeschi in Perugia, Italy. Inspiring works, such as Edouard Manet’s Spanish Ballet, Vincent van Gogh’s House at Auvers, Amedeo Modigliani’s Elena Povolozky, and Pablo Picasso’s Woman with a Green Hat will be among many examples of impressionist and modern masters rarely presented in Umbria.
On view concurrently at the Palazzo Baldeschi, known for its celebrated collection of majolica, will be Fattori to De Pisis: Masterworks from the Collection of Ricci Oddi, an exhibition of Italian masters from the 19th and early 20th centuries, providing an opportunity to compare and contrast two great collections while celebrating the Foundation’s longstanding commitment to the art of collecting.