Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900), Mounts Adam and Eve, 1872. Oil on canvas. Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Gift of Barbara B. Millhouse. On view in The Voyage of Life at Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
The Voyage of Life
The Voyage of Life: Art, Allegory, and Community Response represents three centuries of American art with works by artists like Andy Warhol, Romare Bearden, Alice Neel, Fairfield Porter, Lee Krasner and more, featured “alongside community-sourced stories that reveal critical moments in the ‘voyage of life.’” Held at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, several promised gifts will also be featured in the exhibition, demonstrating the museum’s goal of increasing representation by artists of color. The show will be held through December 12.
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LA Arts Endowment Fund
A $20 million gift from author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott established the LA Arts Endowment Fund, which will support small to mid-sized community arts organizations. The monumental and transformative gift will bolster the Los Angeles area’s arts scene by supporting the longevity of nonprofit arts organizations and strengthening the infrastructure of the arts in the long term. “We applaud and are grateful to MacKenzie Scott for investing in our community’s cultural and arts organizations,” says Antonia Hernandez, president and CEO of the California Community Foundation. “This gift recognizes CCF for being a longstanding supporter of the arts in Los Angeles County. The LA Arts Endowment Fund emphasizes our commitment to the long-term well-being of the arts not just for today, but beyond.”
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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Thomas McKeller (detail), 1917-21. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. On view in The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's catalog Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent.
Excellence in Art Publishing
Art Libraries Society of North America has recognized The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s 2020 exhibition catalog Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent for excellence in art publishing. Featuring drawings given to Isabella Stewart Gardner by Sargent himself, the important catalog is a groundbreaking moment in the museum’s history, providing its first focus on images of a Black man, as well as the first to address the history of African American experience in Boston. The catalog is accompanied by a diversity of perspectives from artists, curators and scholars.
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John Marin (1870-1953), Movement, Nassau Street, ca. 1932. Graphite. Gift of D. Frederick Baker from the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2018.27.12. On view in Picturing a Nation at Chazen Museum of Art.
Picturing a Nation
Beginning August 31, the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin, hosts an exhibition that highlights American drawings and watercolors from the 18th to early 20th century. Featured in the exhibition are fantastic works by George Catlin, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, John Steuart Curry, Lilian Westcott Hale, Eastman Johnson and John Marin among many others. Picturing a Nation: American Drawings and Watercolors will be on view through November 28.
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Saint-Gaudens Medal
Wanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita at Stanford University, has been awarded the Saint-Gaudens Medal for her years of support in preserving historic artists’ properties across the United States. The Saint-Gaudens Memorial plays a pivotal role as a partner of the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Park, sponsoring programs and activities that promote public awareness of the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and sculpture as a whole. Corn’s recent exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern was organized through the Brooklyn Museum of Art and has traveled to museums throughout the country.
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Thomas Cole (1801-1848), The Arch of Nero, 1846. Courtesy Sotheby’s. On view at Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Thomas Cole Masterpiece
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will display in its American galleries a masterpiece by esteemed Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole titled The Arch of Nero. Created at the pinnacle of his career in 1846, the piece goes to the PMA as a long-term loan from the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation. It was purchased by the Foundation—in an effort to keep this important painting in the public domain—at Sotheby’s American Art sale in New York this past May. —
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