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Jacob Lawrence: Prints, 1963-2000 A Comprehensive Survey Showcasing Jacob Lawrence’s entire oeuvre of printmaking, this exhibition highlights one creative aspect of one of the greatest African American artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition includes more than 70 brilliantly-colored individual prints, including the complete Legend of John Brown series, Eight Studies for the Book of Genesis, and prints based on the paintings from the Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture series. One of the key themes of the exhibition is struggle. As Lawrence himself noted: “I am dealing with struggle throughout my work, I think struggle is a beautiful thing. I think it has made our country what it is, starting with the American Revolution. I would like to think of the struggle in my work as not being just a black symbol, but a symbol of man’s capacity to endure and triumph.” Jacob Lawrence: Prints, 1963-2000 A Comprehensive Survey is presentedcourtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York |
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Susan Wides: From Mannahatta to Kaaterskill: The City and its Surrounding Landscape Contemporary photographer Susan Wides’ fascination with the nineteenth-century Hudson River School painters is explored in this exhibition. The show consists of approximately 50 large-school photographs divided into three groups: Kaaterskill (the Upper Hudson Valley), Manahatta (Scenes of Urban life), and a new group of work newly created for this exhibition, which shows Westchester County as a vital suburban “hinge” between the urban and the rural. From Mannahatta to Kaaterskill, the City and its Surrounding Landscape will document the relentless transformation of our natural and urban environments. The exhibition explores humanity’s intrusion into the rural landscape, and the simultaneous urge to recreate elements of nature within urban settings. Ongoing for more than two centuries, this process has developed as a major theme for artists, who explore its effects on history, art, and memory. Susan Wides: From Mannahatta to Kaaterskill, the City and its Surrounding Landscape is organized by the Hudson River Museum. |
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Richard Deon: Paradox and Conformity During the past 20 years, Hudson Valley resident Richard Deon has explored the visual style and methods employed by textbook illustrators from the 1950s. These unsung artists sought to introduce school children to public institutions, history, and politics through the use of easily graspable images and situations. Deon draws on their methods, arranging figures with implicit cultural connotations in situations that mimic the civic and didactic. However, he places viewers in puzzling territory, where the seemingly familiar describes "an uneasy pictorial absurdity." Through aesthetic isolation and dislocation, misidentification and nonsensical juxtapositions, the artist allows conflicting images and ideas to coexist without the hope of resolution. This exhibition includes more than 30 paintings, ranging from monumental banners to easel-sized canvases, as well as small-scaled ink-jet prints from different three graphic series. Richard Deon: Paradox and Conformity is based on an exhibition originally curated by Thomas Piché, Jr., for the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO, which has been re-organized for presentation at the Hudson River Museum. |
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Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth This survey exhibition of more than sixty works traces the history of the American Autumn landscape painting, beginning with brilliantly-hued fall scenes created by Hudson River School painters such as Jasper Cropsey, Frederic Edwin Church and Thomas Cole. The exhibition continues the historical narrative of American artist’s fascination with Autumn by presenting key Autumn works of American Impressionism and Urban Realism, as well as artists who have reinvigorated contemporary landscape painting by drawing their inspiration from Autumn and the Hudson River School Painters. Organized around four main major themes, Paintbox Leaves illustrates: the Harvest, a symbol of the fruitful domestication of the American landscape; the Visitor in the Landscape, reflecting man’s evolving relationship with nature and tourism; the Leaf and the Magic of Color, tracing artistic and scientific inquiry into the phenomena of Autumn; and Autumn Abstraction, reflecting artistic influence on the depiction of natural forms. The exhibition will include loans from major museums and private collections, in addition to works from the Hudson River Museum collection. Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth is organized by the Hudson River Museum |
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