Installation Detail of The Cornish Colony: Highlights from the Collection
2010 EXHIBITIONS PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
1st Exhibition
Curator Henry Duffy
The Cornish Colony: Highlights from the Collection
On view May 29 – July 6, 2010
Opening reception and curator’s talk June 19 from 4:30 to 6:00 pm
2nd Exhibition
Rachel B. Hayes, 2009 Saint-Gaudens Fellow
Wild and Wary Ways
On view July 10 – August 3, 2010
Opening reception and artist’s talk July 10 from 4:30 to 6:00 pm
3rd Exhibition
Shona Macdonald
Two Northeast
On view August 7 – September 1, 2010
Opening reception and artist’s talk August 7 from 4:30 to 6:00 pm
4th Exhibition
Curators Judy Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher
Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection
On view September 4 – October 11, 2010
Opening reception and curator’s talk September 4 from 4:30 to 6:00 pm
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Maxfield Parrish, “Memento”, 1902, watercolor and ink on paper (SAGA 1602)
THE CORNISH COLONY
Highlights of the Collection
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site May 29 through July 6, 2010
The opening exhibition at The Picture Gallery at the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, NH will highlight the collection of art by members of the Cornish Colony of artists. The Cornish Colony was an extraordinary group of artists, architects, writers, landscape designers, musicians and public figures who followed Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Cornish beginning in the 1880s.
The public is invited to a Gallery Talk by Exhibition Curator, Dr. Henry Duffy at 5:00 pm, and an Opening Reception in The Picture Gallery from 4:30-6:30 pm., on Saturday, June 19, 2010. The reception and talk are free and open to the public.
The 35 works exhibited, include paintings, prints, drawings, photographs,
ceramics and sculpture by members of the Saint-Gaudens family, Thomas Dewing, George deForest Brush, Maxfield and Stephen Parrish, and others. The exhibition will be on view daily 9:00 am to 4:30 pm from May 29 though July 6, 2010.
Detail of “Patient Persistence”, fabric, vinyl, mirrors, rocks, 2009
Rachel B. Hayes
2009 Saint-Gaudens Fellow
WILD AND WARY WAYS
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site July 10 through August 3, 2010
The season’s second exhibition in The Picture Gallery will feature the sculpture of 2009 Saint-Gaudens Fellow, Rachel Hayes., a New York City based visual artist. Using innocuous and readily available media such as fabric, Rachel creates spectacular environments of color and motion that are intended to be experienced both physically and psychologically. Utilizing hand-sewn, large scale components, these environments are populated with forms that share a dialogue with modernist painting, patchwork quilts, minimalist sculpture, land art and fashion design. In general, her work draws on a wide range of disparate references from Post-Painterly abstraction to traditional women’s textile work. Rachel’s Fellowship exhibition, Wild and Wary Ways, will include six new works created between 2009-2010.
The public is invited to a Gallery Talk by the artist at 5:00 pm, and an Opening Reception in The Picture Gallery from 4:30-6:30 pm., on Saturday, July 10, 2010. The reception and talk are free and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view daily 9:00 am to 4:30 pm from July 10 though August 3, 2010.
Detail of “Simmer Dim Flyover”, 2010, casein and oil on canvas, 46 x 84 in.
Shona Macdonald
TWO NORTHEAST
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site August 7 – September 1, 2010
The title of this summer’s third exhibition, Two Northeast, encompasses three years of work exploring, in different ways, the complex philosophical and emotive issues surrounding place and displacement, relocation and reconnection. Having grown up in Northeast Scotland, Shona Macdonald currently lives and works in the Northeast of the United States, traveling back and forth between the two, both physically and imaginatively. For the past decade, her artwork has explored ideas surrounding this confluence of landscape and memory.
The public is invited to a Gallery Talk by the artist at 5:00 pm, and an Opening Reception in The Picture Gallery from 4:30-6:30 pm., on Saturday, August 7, 2010. The reception and talk are free and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view daily 9:00 am to 4:30 pm from August 7 though September 1, 2010.
Detail of Francis H. Schell (1834-1909), “Skirmish with the Texas Rangers on Tuesday the Eighteenth”, December 18, 1861, graphite on wove paper, 18 x 22 in.
CIVIL WAR DRAWINGS FROM THE BECKER COLLECTION
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site September 4 to October 11, 2010
This exhibition presents a selection of approximately forty-five drawings from the Becker Collection, the largest group of Civil War drawings in private hands. Joseph Becker and his colleagues, who, during the nineteenth century served as artist-reporters for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, executed these drawings often under harrowing conditions. This collection of firsthand drawings, most of which were never published, have been on public display only once before. It includes original drawings by some of the era’s most notable artists and landmark works long thought lost or destroyed. As the United States prepares to observe the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Becker Collection adds significantly to the nation’s understanding of its conflicted past. At a time when photography could only capture staged or still moments, the Special Artists risked their lives to record live-action historical events. The drawings in this exhibition are dramatic representations of the events that divided and defined a nation and testaments to the contributions Special Artists made to the development of American journalism and the history of American art.
On Saturday, September 4, 2010.the public is invited to a Gallery Talk by the curators, Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher, at 5:00 pm, and an Opening Reception in The Picture Gallery from 4:30-6:30 pm. The reception and talk are free and open to all. The exhibition will be on view daily 9:00 am to 4:30 pm from September 4 through October 11, 2010.
For additional information about the Becker Collection, please link to: http://idesweb.bc.edu/becker/
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