John Singer Sargent’s An Interior in Venice and Elizabeth Allen Marquand on view in Princeton

PRINCETON, NJ.- Continuing a practice—which dates to the 1930s—of partnering with other leading museums to present single-painting “masterpiece exhibitions,” John Singer Sargent’s An Interior in Venice (1899) is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum. The distinguished painting by Sargent (1856–1925), Europe’s most fashionable portraitist of the age, enters into a conversation with the Museum’s own Elizabeth Allen Marquand (1887), offering a unique opportunity for visitors to gain special insights into the artist’s remarkable career. An Interior in Venice is on loan from [...]

First Major U.S. Overview of Kurt Schwitters’ Work at Princeton University Art Museum

PRINCETON, NJ.- Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) was an integral part of Germany’s revolutionary art and intellectual movements in the tumultuous wake of the First World War. He is one of the most enduring figures of the 20th century international avant-garde, and has been cited as a profound influence by artists ranging from Robert Rauschenberg to Damian Hirst. Widely acknowledged as a great master of collage, Schwitters’ diverse body of work cut across boundaries, hierarchies and media to include painting, sculpture, typography, [...]

Donors Endow Curatorship at Princeton University Art Museum; Laura M. Giles Appointed

PRINCETON, NJ.- Laura M. Giles, an internationally recognized scholar of Italian Renaissance and Baroque drawings, has been appointed as the first Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM). Giles has held the position of curator of prints and drawings at the Museum since December 2000. Laura M. Giles has held the position of curator of prints and drawings at the Museum since December 2000 “Heather and [...]

Princeton Museum Announces Gauguin Woodblock Prints Exhibition

PRINCETON, NJ.- The Princeton University Art Museum will launch its fall 2010 season with an exhibition it is originating, Gauguin’s Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints (September 25, 2010—January 2, 2011), the first comprehensive look at this pivotal woodcut series. Gauguin’s Paradise Remembered posits a new way of understanding a key body of work within the artist’s career, and by extension a new way of understanding this vital post-Impressionist artist. The exhibition presents 32 works that concentrate on the pivotal [...]

Fall Focus on Spanish Art through Two Frick Presentations

NEW YORK, NY.- The greatest Spanish draftsmen from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century—Ribera, Murillo, and Goya, among them—created works of dazzling idiosyncrasy. These diverse drawings, which may be broadly characterized as possessing a specifically “Spanish manner,” will be the subject of an exclusive exhibition at The Frick Collection in the fall of 2010. The presentation will feature more than fifty of the finest Spanish drawings from public and private collections in the Northeast, among them The Metropolitan Museum of [...]

New Orleans Museum of Art Names Susan M. Taylor New Museum Director

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announces the appointment of Susan M. Taylor as Director Designate. She will officially become the Museum’s sixth director on September 1, 2010. Taylor will succeed E. John Bullard, who will retire as one of America’s longest-serving museum directors. Bullard will remain on staff as Director Emeritus to aid Taylor in the transition and will continue to work on NOMA’s centennial celebrations throughout 2011. “As NOMA commemorates a century of art, [...]

Iconic Ansel Adams Print Going Up for Auction at Swann Auction Galleries

NEW YORK, NY (AP).- An early print of an iconic Ansel Adams photograph is going up for auction in New York City for an estimated $350,000 to $450,000. The Dec. 8 sale of 1948′s “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico” is at Swann Auction Galleries. The print is signed and inscribed to Valentino Sarra, a friend of Adams’ and a poster designer for the old Works Progress Administration. It shows a nighttime moon over a cloud-fringed mountain range with a graveyard in [...]