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America the Beautiful: Works on Paper from The Mint Museum
2 July - 4 October 2015
Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts
Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Balcony in Cuba, circa 1885-1900.
watercolor and graphite on paper. The Harry and Mary Dalton Collection.
2006.36.13 Collection of The Mint Museum.
Clare Leighton (British/American, 1898-1989), Snow Shovellers, New York, 1929, wood engraving on paper. Gift of Gabby Pratt. 2004.79.66, Collection of The Mint Museum.
Löis Mailou Jones (American, 1905-1998). Sedalia, North Carolina, 1929, watercolor on paper. Promised gift of Drs. Chris and Marilyn Chapman. PG2009.92.
America the Beautifulis the first exhibition devoted to The Mint Museum's rich holdings of works on paper by American artists. This engaging presentation includes approximately 200 works spanning more than 150 years of history by important artists, including John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth. These works are rarely on view because the Museum must be sensitive to issues of conservation and preservation; America the Beautiful presents a unique opportunity to take a comprehensive look at this beloved part of the Museum's collection. While some of the objects in the exhibition have been on view in the Museum's permanent collection galleries recently, even regular visitors will be surprised and delighted to encounter other pieces that have not been seen for many years, or that have entered the collection as gifts or promised gifts only recently and are making their debuts.
America the Beautiful includes many kinds of prints (wood engravings, etchings, lithographs, and more); drawings in pencil, pen and ink, and charcoal; watercolors and pastels. Because of the exhibition's broad chronological reach, visitors will encounter a tremendous diversity of artistic styles and approaches, from quick on-site sketches and highly finished academic drawings to expressionistic portraits and thought-provoking abstractions. America the Beautiful also features multiple examples of work by artists with deep holdings at the Museum, including Will Henry Stevens, Elliott Daingerfield, Maurice Sterne, and Clare Leighton.
Artists
John Taylor Arms (1887-1953)
Brief biography and examples of his work from the National Gallery of Art
Review of the 2011 exhibition The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor Arms
Peggy Bacon (1895-1987)
Transcript of a 1973 interview with the artist from the Archives of American Art
