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Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art

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Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art

March 14 – June 21, 2009

Mint Museum of Art : Jones, Dwelle, Belk Galleries

 

Mary Cassatt (American, 1845–1927)

Mother and Child in the Conservatory, 1906

oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 28 3/4

Museum Purchase, with funds

contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Forgotston.

 

This exhibition presents the best of the best from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art. The most distinguished names in art history are represented, including: Bonnard, Boucher, Bouguereau, Braque, Cassatt, Copley, Cornell, Corot, Degas, Derain, Dolci, Dubuffet, Dufy, Ernst, Gauguin, Giacometti, Giordano,Greuze, Henri, Hofmann, Kandinsky, Leger, Lipchitz, Lorrain, Magritte, Matisse, Miró, Monet, Nattier, O’Keeffe, Picasso, Pissarro, Pollock, Renoir, Rodin, Rouault, Sargent, Sisley,Tiepolo, Tissot, Utrillo, Van Loo, Vernet, Vigée-Lebrun, Vlaminck, and others! Never before have all the “stars” of a museum’s collection been allowed to tour for a limited engagement. The Mint Museum of Art is delighted to be a venue for this important offering.

 

  Check out the exhibition page from The Mint Museum website and find out about all the related programs!

 

Listen to the interview from WFAE 90.7FM with John Bullard, Director of the New Orleans Museum, about the exhibition here!

 

Previously, the exhibition appeared at the Cantor Arts Center in Stanford, CA. A review can be read here, as well as a review from the arts section of metroactive magazine, and from artslant in San Francisco. A New York Times article about the exhibition and the International Art Treasures Web Magazine article are illuminating and provide several images from the exhibition.

 

*Check out some reviews of the current exhibit at The Mint Museum from The Charlotte Observer and The Salisbury Post

 

Artists in the Exhibition (listed chronologically)

Artists' work in the exhibition is listed, then a link to an online resource, and a link to the MARCO (Mint Art Research Catalog Online) search results. (Links attached to the names above are not repeated below.) Here is a PDF document with table of Art Movements and the artists associated with them. Not all artists are associated with a specific art movement and those artists have additional notes with their entry below from The Dictionary of Art (Oxford: Grove, 1996) or The New Orleans Museum of Art Handbook of the Collection (New Orleans: NOMA, 1995).

 

Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1566–1651)

 

Simon Vouet (French, 1590–1649)

 

Giovanni Martinelli (Florentine, 1600/04–1659)

  • Death Comes to the Banquet Table- image
  • Martinelli's Wikipedia page has numerous images including Death Comes to the Banquet Table
  • The Metroactive article mentioned above has a brief description of the painting
  • ". . . associated with other Florentine painters (Tarchiani, Fontebuoni) during the painting of Death Comes to the Banquet Table, 1630. Also influenced by Caravaggio and other painters that followed him (Boulogne, vouet, Stanzione)" - Grove

 

Claude Lorrain (French, 1600–1682)

  • Ideal View of Tivoli
  • "Greatest of all ideal landscape painters" - Middle Period 1640-1660 - turn to Classicism - first emerged in Venetian painting, but he brought it to a "pitch of refinement not reached by anyone else." - Grove

 

Carlo Dolci. The Vision of Saint Louis of Toulouse

circa 1675–76, oil on panel, 21 ¾ x 14 ¼, The Samuel H. Kress Collection

 

Carlo Dolci (Florentine, 1616–1686)

 

Claude Lefebvre (French, 1632–1674)

 

Luca Giordano (Neapolitan, 1632–1705)

 

Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (French, 1634–1699)

  • Flowers in an Urn
  • A short biography of Monnoyer from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain
  • "Monnoyer's flower paintings took the intimate French still-life and turned it into an elegant large scale genre", "contemporaries considered the works so lifelike they lacked noting but the perfume . . . now they seem slightly stiff and too stylized." - Grove

 

Nicolas Colombel (French, 1644–1717)

  • The Adoration of the Magi
  • "profoundly influenced by Raphael, and above all, Poussin," "upheld Poussin in the face of the (Ruenisme movement), attracts attention today because of his . . . cold technical perfection, resembling later "hyperrealism and because of his taste for strong, bright colours judiciously juxtaposed" - Grove

 

Jean Marc Nattier (French, 1685–1766)

 

Nicolas de Largilliere (French, 1656–1746)

 

Sebastiano Ricci (Venetian, 1659-1734) and Marco Ricci (Venetian,1676–1730)

  • Imaginary Scene with Ruins and Figures - image
  • A short biography of Marco Ricci from the Getty Museum
  • The Getty has created a short teaching article (PDF) to accompany Sebastiano Ricci's Perseus Confronting Phineus with the Head of Medusa
  • MARCO search for Marco Ricci
  • "Belongs to the category of capricci, or caprices, of landscape" - "Many paintings such as Imaginary Scene with Ruins and Figures from the Ricci studio were executed in partnership; the large settings were painted by Marco, the figures by Sebastian." Marco is Sebastian's nephew. - NOMA Handbook

 

Giambattista Tiepolo, Boy Holding a Book

circa 1725-1730, Oil on canvas, 19 x 15-3/8”

 

Giambattista Tiepolo (Venetian, 1696–1770)

 

Christophe Huet (French, 1700–1759)

 

François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)

 

Charles Joseph Natoire (French, 1700–1777)

 

Carle Vanloo (French, 1705–1765)

 

Claude Joseph Vernet (French, 1714–1789)

  • The Morning, Port Scene
  • Biography and Images from the Getty Museum
  • Considered a Naturalist because a majority of his paintings were of imaginary landscapes and marine pictures - "Through such pictures, Vernet contribued to a developing sensibility in the 18th century for experience of Nature in all its moods" - Grove

 

Joseph Marie Vien (French, 1716–1809)

  • Saint Theresa of Avila
  • MARCO search - 18th Century French Painting
  • "one of the earliest French painters to work in the Neo-classical style . . . a decisive influence on some of the foremost artists of the heroic phase of Neo-classicism, notabley Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Francois-Pierre Peyron, Joseph-Benoit Suvee and Jean-Baptiste Regnault, all of whom he taught." - Grove

 

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725–1805)

 

Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808)

 

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)

 

Benjamin West (American, 1738–1820)

  • Romeo and Juliet -image
  • Biography of Benjamin West
  • MARCO search - Benjamin West
  • "generally recognized as a stylistic innovator of immense influence and is the artist who first attempted to bring American art into contiguity with European art" - Grove

 

John Joseph Taillasson (French, 1745–1809)

 

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842)

  • Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France - image
  • Le Brun's Marie Antoinette is part of Art Game's Spot the Difference game
  • Biographical essay from UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography
  • "she earned an international reputation for her stylish portrayals of royalty and aristocratic society in France and throughout Europe during the period 1775-1825" - Grove

 

Joseph Charles Marin (French, 1759–1834)

  • Water Nymph Leaning on an Urn (La Source) (Sculpture)
  • A Marin sculpture from the Art Institute of Chicago

 

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867)

 

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)

 

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1806–1873)

  • Young Woman in a Ball Gown
  • Extensive Wikipedia page with numerous images
  • The fascinating story of one Winterhalter painting
  • "preeminent portrait painter of European royalty, his "fancifully extravagant style appropriately documents the splendor of the imperial pretensions of Napoleon's court" - NOMA Handbook

 

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824–1887)

  • Woman in Reeds (Undine)-Sculpture
  • The Getty Museum's biography of Carrier-Belleuse
  • "his style ranged from the unembellished Realism of his male portraits to the neo-Baroque exuberence of his architectural decoration" - Grove

 

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)

  • Turkish Bashi Bazouk Mercenaries Playing Chess in a Market Place
  • Short biographical entry from the Columbia Encyclopedia

 

Edgar Degas, Dancer in Green

ca. 1878. Pastel on paper. New Orleans Museum of Art

Gift of Charles C. Henderson in memory of Nancy S. Henderson

 

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

 

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)

 

James Tissot (French, 1836–1902)

  • The Terrace at Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich - image
  • Short biographical entry from the Columbia Encyclopedia
  • "in a distinctly personal way his work reflects nearly every important artistic development of his time and reveals the interaction between academic and avant garde developments in art" - Grove

 

Alfred Sisley (French, 1839–1899)

 

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

 

Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)

 

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)

 

William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905)

 

Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)

 

Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)

 

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

  • Portrait of Mrs. Asher B. Wertheimer, née Flora Joseph -image
  • John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery
  • MARCO search - John Singer Sargent
  • "his bravura style, enriched with Impressionistic qualities of light and color" and his "traditional themes, fell from critical esteem under the impact of the development of modernist theories and it was only in the late 1970s that his importance was once more recognized" - Grove

 

Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)

  • Shadow and Light
  • Beasts at the Bottom of the Sea
  • The Dream
  • Biographical entry from the Columbia Encyclopedia
  • Developed "a pictorial language that epitomizes Symbolism . . . a loosely organized movement of artists both visual . . . and literary, who shared a similar attitude of protest"; "Redon's visionary images spriand from the Symbolist belief that a picture is neither simply an arrangement of lines and colors, nor a direct transcript from nature, but is the manifestation of another order of meaning." - NOMA Handbook

 

 

Kees Van Dongen. Woman in a Green Hat

1905, oil on cardboard, 18x 14 3/8, Gift of Mr and Mrs. Samuel J. Levin

 

Kees Van Dongen (French, 1877–1968)

 

Maurice de Vlaminck (French, 1876–1958)

 

Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963)

 

Mary Cassatt (American, 1845–1927)

 

André Derain (French, 1880–1954)

 

Robert Henri (American, 1864–1929)

  • The Blue Kimono
  • Short Biography from the Corcoran
  • MARCO search- Robert Henri
  • "influenced first by the Impressionists and then by the bravura brushwork of Velasquez, Hals and Manet"; " a leader of the artistic world in Philadelphia and New York from the turn of the century until his death in 1929 . . .; organized the first exhibition of The Eight, the famous group of New York realists whose show in 1907 created a sensation and helped to reform the standards of the National Academy of Design." - NOMA Handbook

 

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)

 

Maurice Utrillo (French, 1883–1955)

 

Jean Metzinger (1883–1956)

 

Raoul Dufy (French, 1877–1953)

 

Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955)

 

Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)

 

Wassily Kandinsky. Sketch for Several Circles

1926, oil on canvas, 27 5/8 x 27 5/8, Gift of Mrs. Edgar B. Stern

 

Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944)

Max Ernst (German, 1891–1976)

 

Jacques Lipchitz (French/American, 1891-1973)

 

Marc Chagall (French, born Russia, 1887–1985)

  • The White Lilacs
  • Short Biography and numerous images
  • "invited to join the Surrealists, but he refused to do so - nevertheless, a Surrealist strain of dreamlike imagery can be said to run through all of his works" - Grove

 

Joan Miró. The Red Disk

1960, oil on canvas, 51 ¼ x 63 3/8, Bequest of Victor K. Kiam

 

Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983)

 

Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)

 

Georges Rouault (French, 1871–1958)

 

Hans Hofmann (American, born Germany, 1880–1966)

  • Abstraction of Chair and Miró
  • Hans Hofmann on PBS The website introduces the artist, provides a gallery of his work, and offers special features such as the game Hofmannoply for fun.
  • MARCO search -Hans Hofmann
  • "The importance of his own work was for a long time overshadowed by his immense influence as a teacher and a theorist, but by the late 1950s he was beginning to be recognized as one of the major figures of Abstract Expressionism." - Grove

 

Naum Gabo (American, born Belorussia, 1890–1977)

  • Construction in Space: Suspended (Sculpture)
  • A wikivisual article on Gabo
  • MARCO search - Gabo
  • "Gabo's work does not fit simply into the machine aesthetic"; he was "fascinated and influenced by scientific and mathematical images" and "sought to integrate not only sculpture, architecture and design but also art and science. Thus he felt that his 'constructive idea' could serve as a philosophy not only for art but for life in general." - Grove

 

René Magritte (Belgian, 1898–1967)

 

Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901–1966)

 

Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901–1985)

 

Joseph Cornell (American, 1903–1972)

 

David Smith (American, 1906–1965)

 

 

Jackson Pollock. Composition (White, Black, Blue and Red on White)

1948, casein on paper on Masonite, 22 5/8 x 30 ½, Bequest of Victor K. Kiam

 

Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956)

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