New York, New York! The 20th Century
October 2 - December 31, 2011
Empire City, Gotham, the Big Apple...whatever you call it, New York City has captured millions of hearts, minds, and imaginations. This exhibition, drawn from the collection of the Norton Museum of Art, celebrates the city as artistic muse. The paintings, photographs, and sculptures on display feature some of its most famous landmarks, including Central Park, the Flatiron Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Broadway.
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| George Bellows, Winter Afternoon (Riverside Park, New York City), 1909, Oil on canvas, 30 x 38 in. Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, Gift of R. H. Norton. |
Storied City: New York in Picture Book Art
October 2 - December 31, 2011
New York has long held special appeal for the illustrators and writers of children’s books, both as a place to live and as a setting for their tales. Storied City displays original art from more than thirty-five picture books that examine iconic structures, diverse neighborhoods, ethnic life, urban transportation, and city parks. The illustrators include seven Caldecott Medal winners, several artists long associated with The New Yorker magazine, and many other leading illustrators from the children’s book world.
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| Amy Schwartz, “And once when I was brand-new,” from A Teeny Tiny Baby [Orchard, 1994], gouache © Amy Schwartz, 1994. |
Stephen Talasnik: Elusive Landscape
June 5 - September 18, 2011
Draftsman and sculptor Stephen Talasnik creates intricate fantastical structures, inspired, in part, by the work of Surrealist artists. Elusive Landscape presents a selection of recent pencil and ink drawings with intensely worked surfaces. A suspended construction in the Museum’s atrium represents the artist’s three-dimensional interpretation of a painted form in Yves Tanguy’s final masterpiece Multiplication of the Arcs, included in the exhibition Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy.
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| Stephen Talasnik, Mooring, from the Afloat Suite, 2009-2011, courtesy of the artist and Marlborough Gallery, New York. |
Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy
June 5 - September 18, 2011
As husband and wife, Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage were inseparable, accompanying each other everywhere. Despite this, they did not want to be considered a “team of painters” and refused to exhibit together. Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy integrates, for the first time and in one space, the paintings they created during their 15 years together. Double Solitaire features approximately 25 paintings by each artist, dating from 1937 to 1958, as well as selected ephemera, providing a window into the couple’s personal lives.
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| Kay Sage, I Saw Three Cities, 1944, Princeton University Art Museum, photography by Bruce M. White. |
Sarah Perry: If...
June 5 - September 18, 2011
The Surrealist-inspired watercolors in Sarah Perry’s book If… conjure up a world of limitless possibilities where anything can happen: leaves turn into fish, cats fly about on wings, and colorful butterflies form a little girl’s coat.
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| Sarah Perry, If zebras had stars as stripes, from If...(Getty Publications, 1995) Courtesy of Lora Schlesinger Gallery |
