Sentences with phrase «early twentieth century collection»

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Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

Featuring clips from the film Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, along with lesson plans and historical background readings, this collection invites students to connect Aleichem's life to the larger transformation of traditional Jewish identity in late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century Eastern Europe.

Inspired by newspaper stories from the last four centuries, Donoghue's masterful short story collection explores the unexpected in people's lives in such varied settings as Victorian England, Civil War — era Texas, and early twentieth - century New York City.

Although decorative objects by Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop) designers are part of the Neue Galerie's permanent collection, the jewel box museum has never before presented a large - scale exhibition of this early twentieth century collective's elegant, stylized work.

In 2007, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects received the commission to design the new Barnes Foundation building, an enviable project that was surrounded both by controversy and the excitement of increasing access to one of America's premier collections of post-impressionist art, amassed by Dr. Albert C. Barnes in the early twentieth century.

This presentation of masterworks and experimental pieces from SFMOMA's collection of painting and sculpture explores themes that have shaped the history of modern art from the early twentieth century to our own time.

News from Nowhere features sculpture, drawing, print, photography and film from the early twentieth century to present day, bringing newly commissioned work together with loans from national and international collections to highlight the impact of developments in modern science and technology on the artistic imagination.

Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

The early part of the collection features French and Russian art from the beginning of the twentieth century, cubist paintings and superb holdings of expressionist and modern British art.

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Curated by Dan Nadel, Matthew Marks, New York, NY 1995 Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in Early California Art 1934 - 1957, Oakland Museum, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, UT 1993 Selections from the Permanent Collection - California: Art from the 1930s to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage San Jose Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum and Joslyn Art Museum 1986 California Sculpture: 1959 - 1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1985 Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945 - 1980, Oakland Museum 1984 Contemporary American Wood Sculpture, Crocker Art Museum, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art and Chrysler Museum The Dilexi Years 1958 - 1970, Oakland Museum 1982 100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum Northern California Art of the Sixties, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara 1976 California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Collection of fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution 1975 Masterworks in Wood: The Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum First Artists» Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1971 Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Art 1969 An American Report on the Sixties, Denver Art Museum American Sculpture of the Sixties, Grand Rapids Art Museum 1968 On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945 - 62, San Francisco Museum of Art The West Coast Now: Current Work from the Western Seaboard, Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and De Young Museum 1967 FUNK, University Art Museum, Berkeley, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art 1966 Twenty Drawings: New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York Two - Dimensional Sculpture, Three - Dimensional Painting, Richmond Art Center, CA 1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art 1962 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Albright Knox Art Gallery and Des Moines Art Center Public Collections

With material from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century primarily from the United States, and to a lesser degree Great Britain and several other countries, the exhibition demonstrates the breadth of The Amistad Center's permanent collection.

The exhibit features a selection of art works, historical photographs, and documents from the early twentieth century through the early twenty - first century from the permanent collection.

The collection has particular strengths in Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese painting, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings, early American painting, nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century photography, Conceptual art, international contemporary art, West Coast avant - garde film, international animation, Soviet cinema, early video art, and the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan.

After a large foundation collection was established in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the acquisition of additional works over time has continued to broaden and deepen the story told by objects acquired earlier in the institution's history.

Highlights of the European art collection include English genre painting of the nineteenth - century as well as examples of French post-Impressionistic painting from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The Museum's collection of European art consists of examples from the Baroque - era through the early twentieth - century.

The 2018 inaugural exhibition will include works from the early twentieth century to the 1960s, and in March 2019, the collection will be rehung to display works from the 1960s to the present.

An extraordinary collection of forty - three early - twentieth - century German and Austrian drawings by some of the leaders of the German expressionist movement and the Vienna Secession was on view in From Berlin to Broadway.

Drawing from the collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art, When Modern Was Contemporary: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection surveys the development of modern art in the U.S., from representational modes in the early years of the twentieth century through the Abstract Expressionist revolution at midcentury.

From William Henry Fox Talbot's earliest «photogenic drawings» and Charles Nègre's translation of photographic images into a variety of mechanical processes, to the photogram process that was a staple for Man Ray, Dada, and the Surrealists, Past Picture draws from the extraordinary holdings of late nineteenth and early twentieth - century photographs in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada to present prints and images by some of photography's most innovative and influential inventors and practitioners.

Power sculpture from the Congo has a longstanding, cross-cultural formal appeal, which led to its proliferation in early twentieth - century Western collections.

Encompassing over seventy works drawn from public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880 - 1914 examines the work of forty - three American painters drawn to Holland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The early part of the collection features European art from the beginning of the twentieth century, including work by André Derain and Pierre Bonnard, cubist paintings and holdings of expressionist and modern British art.

Preeminent American artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries like Winslow Homer (1836 — 1910), George Inness (1825 — 1894), John La Farge (1835 — 1910), and famed expatriates John Singer Sargent (1856 — 1925) and James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834 — 1903) are each represented by high - quality drawings and / or paintings in the ACMAA works on paper collection.

Previous exhibitions have featured Laura Owens (also paired with the Balfour collection) in 2000; Rudolf Stingel (with nineteenth - century botanical drawings by Indian artists) in 2006, and John Cage with Merce Cunningham (shown with early twentieth - century botanical drawings by Lilian Snelling) in 2007.

Moderna Museet houses one of the world's finest collections of Swedish and international modern and contemporary artworks, from the early twentieth century to today, including pieces by Dali, Picasso, Rauchenberg, Duchamp and Matisse.

Many of the figures show costume designs by artists and designers from the early part of the twentieth century, thereby linking the performing arts of the festival with the collection of the museum.

Highlights from each of these collections feature prominently in Visionaries and convey a narrative on avant - garde innovation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Met's collection of American art (painting and sculpture) now numbers more than 1,000 paintings, 600 sculptures, and 2,600 drawings from the early Colonial period to the early twentieth century.