The Guggenheim Museum has an ongoing exhibit of work by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973 with over 20 paintings. This is only part of the vast collection left to the museum by art collector Justin Thannhauser.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th St), NYC
Images:
Fernande with a Black Mantilla, 1905
Mandolin and Guitar, 1924
Two Doves with Wings Spread, 1960
Watched “Sunday Morning” on CBS and saw a feature about an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art – “Cezanne and Beyond”.
French impressionist artist Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) had a huge effect on his contemporaries and many of the artists that came after him. 40 of his paintings and 20 of his watercolors are displayed along with the work of those painters that acknowledge Cezanne’s influence:
Georges Braque, Charles Demuth, Alberto Giacomett, Arshile Gorky, Jasper Johns, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Giorgio Morandi, Henri Matisse.
“Cezanne and Beyond” until May 17, 2009
Philadelphia Museum of Art
26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA
Images: Self Portrait (1875) and Still Life (1895)
This Dallas Museum of Art exhibition, a collection of the work of a few post World War II American artists, will be on view until October. “It juxtaposes monumental, totem-like abstract expressionist canvases with an intimate box construction by Joseph Cornell and the brash and bold wit of pop artists like Tom Wesselmann and Richard Lindner.” Also included are the collages of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
American Art 1950 – 1970 * thru October 2009
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas
Images:
“Rock-Rock”, 1966 – Richard Lindner, oil on canvas
Untitled “combine”, 1963 – Richard Rauschenberg. Oil, silkscreened ink, metal, and plastic on canvas
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“Wrapped in Color: Lithographic Book Covers and Jackets, 1890-1970”
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, offers a display of magazine covers and book jackets (also called “wrappers”) that were designed by painters that used Lithography as another outlet for their art – Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall.
“In the 21st century, the idea of using original works of art to ´protect´ books seems paradoxical. But more than 100 years ago, lithography offered a new arena for artistic experimentation as demonstrated by the examples from the museum’s collection…”
BTW- Lithography: “printing method in which the design is drawn on a slab of fine-grained stone with a greasy crayon, rather than cut or etched into a metal plate or wood block. The process is based upon the principle that the greasy areas will accept ink while the non-greasy areas will not.”
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) until May 25, 2009
Images:
Marc Chagall, Russian, Editions de la Revue Verve: nos. 33 &34, © Paris:, 1956
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, Picasso Lithographe (Volume 2), 1950
San Francisco Bay area Squeak Carnwath is both teacher and painter. According to the exhibition catalog, she “practices painting as a kind of symbolic thinking out loud…Her recurring motifs reflect personal and universal themes; each meticulously applied layer of glaze carries meaning and inquiry”.
40 of her pieces, from the last 15 years, will be presented at the Oakland Museum from April 25–August 23, 2009.
Squeak Carnwath: “Painting Is No Ordinary Object”
Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street, Oakland, California
Image: “In Pursuit of Happiness”, 2000 oil & alkyd on canvas
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Exhibition at the Met will focus on a group of New York artists “born into the media culture of postwar America, this loosely knit group of New York artists created the most seminal photographs of the late 20th century. Their overarching subject was how pictures of all kinds not only depict but shape reality.”
”Pictures Generation, 1974-1984”, 4/21 – 8/2/09
The Metropolitan Museum, New York, N.Y.
(Images: “Luxor # 2”, James Casebere and “Untitled (Cowboy)”, Richard Prince)