Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Kimbell Art Museum’s Malcolm Warner named Executive Director of Laguna Art Museum

November 3, 2011 by  
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LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- The Board of Trustees of Laguna Art Museum announced today that Malcolm Warner, deputy director at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has been appointed executive director of Laguna Art Museum. Warner will assume his position January 3, 2012. “I am so pleased to have an executive director who is an internationally recognized scholar, arts leader, and an individual who is beloved by the local community he currently serves. Malcolm Warner is the ideal executive director to lead [...]

Picasso and Braque: first exhibition to unite works from pivotal years at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

September 22, 2011 by  
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SANTA BARBARA, CA.- Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912, the first exhibition to unite many of the paintings and nearly all of the prints created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during these two exhilarating years of their artistic dialogue, went on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) on September 17. The international loan exhibition, featuring 16 paintings and 20 etchings and drypoints, is organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Kimbell Art Museum, with its [...]

Poussin masterpiece from the celebrated ‘Sacraments’ series acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum

September 10, 2011 by  
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FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum announced today one of the most important acquisitions in its history: French painter Nicolas Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination (Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter). The painting is from Poussin’s famous first set of the Seven Sacraments, which has been universally acclaimed, virtually since its creation, as a landmark in the history of art. The series was commissioned by the prominent Roman collector Cassiano dal Pozzo between 1636 and 1642. In 1785, the 4th Duke of [...]

George T. M. Shackelford Appointed Senior Deputy Director of the Kimbell Art Museum

July 12, 2011 by  
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FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum announced today that George T. M. Shackelford will join the staff as senior deputy director in early 2012. “I’m thrilled to welcome George to the Kimbell,” commented Eric M. Lee, the Museum’s director. “He is one of the most brilliant and talented curators in the field today. As the Kimbell expands with its Renzo Piano building project, George will play a crucial role in shaping the Museum’s future.” In response to accepting the position, Shackelford remarked, [...]

Clark Art Institute to Launch First International Tour of Masterpieces from the Collection

January 27, 2011 by  
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WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Continuing its commitment to global outreach and cultural exchange, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will tour masterpieces from its collection of nineteenth-century European paintings to leading museums around the world beginning this spring. The Clark’s first-ever international tour of masterpieces from its collection will include many of the greatest works from its extraordinary holdings of French Impressionism and European paintings. The exhibition features 73 paintings, including works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, [...]

Kimbell Art Museum Presents First Major U.S. Exhibition Devoted to Salvator Rosa

December 13, 2010 by  
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FORT WORTH, TX.- Kimbell Art Museum presents the first major U.S. exhibition devoted to the work of Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), one of the boldest artists and personalities of 17th-century Italy, December 12, 2010 – March 27, 2011. Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness, and Magic surveys Rosa’s career with 36 of his best paintings, on loan from museums and private collections in Europe and North America. The history of art has known many rebels, but none quite like Salvator Rosa. Fiercely independent [...]

Mexico marks two anniversaries with revolutionary music and art

July 7, 2010 by  
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Dallas.- Tributes to the sustained creativity of Mexican artists are rolling out from museums, symphonies and universities to commemorate Mexico’s 200th anniversary of independence from Spain – and the 100th anniversary of its revolution The Dallas Museum of Art has one of the biggest displays of Mexican art in North Texas. Nearly 200 pieces are showcased, from Olmec jadeite figures to the lithographs of modern painter Rufino Tamayo, who died in 1991. Calavera Catrina, one of José Guadalupe Posada’s most [...]

Kimbell Art Museum Unveils Final Design by Renzo Piano for New Building

May 28, 2010 by  
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FORT WORTH, TX.- Today the Kimbell Art Museum unveils the final design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) for a major new museum building located to the west of its existing building, a landmark of modern architecture designed by Louis I. Kahn. Slated to open in 2013, the new building provides much-needed space for the Kimbell, whose exhibition and education programs have grown far beyond those envisaged when the Kahn building opened in 1972. During the major exhibitions that the [...]

Rare Guercino Painting Acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum

May 2, 2010 by  
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FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired the painting Christ and the Woman of Samaria, dated to 1619–20, by the Italian artist Guercino, one of the foremost painters of his time. The purchase was announced today by the Museum’s director, Eric M. Lee. The painting dates from Guercino’s early, rarest, and most desirable period, when the artist achieved acclaim for the emotional power of his compositions. “I am thrilled that the Kimbell has found [...]

Kimbell Art Museum Mourns the Death of Foermer Director Edmund Pillsbury

March 27, 2010 by  
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FORT WORTH, TX.- The Board of Directors and staff of the Kimbell Art Museum are mourning the tragic loss of former museum director and dear friend, Dr. Edmund (Ted) P. Pillsbury. Kay Fortson, Board president, Kimbell Art Foundation commented, “Ted was a brilliant director and a good friend. He will be greatly missed. “ “I was deeply saddened by the death of Ted Pillsbury,” said Eric Lee, current director of the Kimbell Art Museum. “Ted was one of the greatest [...]

Georgia Museum of Art Publishes Important Source on Early Italian Paintings

February 28, 2010 by  
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ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art announces the publication of the “Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South.” Conceived as a massive project that would catalogue and illustrate every Italian painting on panel and canvas dating between 1250 and 1500 in public collections across North America, the “Corpus” in its first part focuses on public collections in the American South. The author, Perri Lee Roberts of Miami University, discusses more than 400 paintings, each [...]

Kimbell Art Musem to Showcase Art From the Private Collections of Texas

December 16, 2009 by  
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Fort Worth, Texas – Texas is a place full of ambitions, and one of these ambitions is the subject of an exhibition opening at the Kimbell on November 22nd: the desire on the part of a wide range of Texans to collect major works of European painting and sculpture for display in their homes. The exhibition surveys the history of private collecting in Texas from the oil boom days of Spindletop to the present day, telling the stories of the [...]

View of Venice by Bonington Acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum

December 12, 2009 by  
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FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum has added to its collection an exquisite oil sketch by the British artist Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828), “The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Toward the Rialto”, painted on the spot in 1826. Its purchase was announced today by the Kimbell’s director, Dr. Eric M. Lee. Dr. Lee commented: “The opportunity to acquire one of Bonington’s beautiful oil sketches of Venice is extremely rare. Only eight are known, four of which were already in museum [...]