March 7, 2009 – April 19, 2009
Outlooks Exhibition Series |
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The Possibilities of Pause: Delaware Women’s Conference 2009 Juried Exhibition
The Possibilities of Pause showcases the variety of means that women in Delaware use in harnessing their energies, consolidating their thoughts, distilling their feelings, and unleashing their imagination to give form to their creative musings. |
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February 1, 2009 – April 12, 2009 |
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Paintings from the Reign of Victoria:
The Royal Holloway Collection, London
This exhibition includes 60 of the most important paintings of the Victorian period, encompassing the full range of subject matter and style. The paintings were acquired by Thomas Holloway and installed in the women’s college he founded in 1879, still in operation today. |
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| November 22, 2008 – February 1, 2009 |
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Frank E. Schoonover: An Artist for All Seasons
Frank E. Schoonover was a prolific American illustrator during the “Golden Age of Illustration,” the early 20th century. This overview of his extensive career is mounted to celebrate the publication of a catalogue raisonné of the illustrator’s work, published by Oak Knoll Press and the Frank E. Schoonover Fund, Inc. |
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| November 1, 2008 – February 8, 2009 |
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The Invented Worlds of Alida Fish
A seahorse, a headless woman, and statues that have come to life: photographer Alida Fish has created a universe filled with remarkable things. While many photographers take their subjects from the world around them, Fish imagines her own worlds, and uses traditional, historic, and digital processes to bring to life her amazing visions. |
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| November 1, 2008 – January 11, 2009 |
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Masterpieces in Miniature
The Delaware Art Museum is pleased to announce the return of its family-friendly attraction for the holidays. The Museum has again invited premier miniature artists from the region to produce miniatures based on an existing masterpiece. Each of the imaginative installations will be inspired by a masterpiece of art, many from the Museum’s own collections. |
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| October 11, 2008 – January 4, 2009 |
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Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks, who died in 2006 at age 93, documented crime and poverty, as well as its opposite—glamour. The first African American staff photographer for Life magazine, Parks tackled the harsh truth and dignity of the black urban and rural poor in the United States. He was also a major fashion photographer, providing spreads for respected magazines such as Vogue. |
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September 6, 2008 – Oct. 12, 2008
Outlooks Exhibition Series |
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Hispanic Lives, Latin Worlds—Simple Complexities
(Vidas Hispanas, Mundos Latinos—Simplicidad y Complejidad)
This exhibition celebrates Hispanice Heritage Month with over 30 works of art whose diverse styles and media explore the juxtapositions between young and old, new and traditional, rural and urban, simple and complex. |
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July 12, 2008 – November 9, 2008 |
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Gifted: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection
Like most art museums, the Delaware Art Museum has acquired the majority of its permanent collection through gifts. This exhibition features more than 30 works of art given to the Delaware Art Museum since its reopening in June 2005. |
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| June 28, 2008 – September 21, 2008 |
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Garry Knox Bennett: Call Me Chairmaker
This exhibition features 52 one-of-a-kind sculptural chairs created by Garry Knox Bennett, one of the foremost contemporary studio furniture makers in America. Inspired by well-known furniture designers and architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, George Nakashima and Gerrit Rietveld, Bennett’s wit and imagination come to life with such chairs as the Great Granny Rietveld and Wiggle Wright. |
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May 17, 2008 – June 29, 2008
Outlooks Exhibition Series |
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Resonance: 2008 Delaware Art Museum
Studio Art Instructor Exhibition
The 19 artists represented in this exhibition are instructors in the Delaware Art Museum’s Studio Art Program. They are of different ages and come from different backgrounds across the Delaware Valley and beyond. |
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| May 10, 2008 – August 10, 2008 |
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This Is War!
Due to the depth of the Delaware Art Museum’s illustration collections through the 1940s, the Museum is able to provide a wide array of artists’ interpretations of war. Over 40 illustrations and posters in this exhibition focus on the Revolutionary War, Civil War, First World War, and Second World War. |
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| April 11, 2008 – April 13, 2008 |
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Art in Bloom
Art in Bloom is finally back! Eighteen leading floral designers from the region chose works of art in the Museum’s collection to interpret. For three short days, each flower arrangement will be displayed beside the work that inspired it. But that’s not all—the Museum is celebrating Art in Bloom with a dizzying array of activities and special events. |
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March 29, 2008 – May 4, 2008
Outlooks Exhibition Series |
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Bridge of Hope: Iraqi/U.S. Art Initiative
The Bridge of Hope exhibition features approximately two-dozen works, mostly abstract, by nine Iraqi and nine American artists. This exhibition is part of the Museum’s new Outlooks Exhibition Series and is guest curated by Rosemary Lane of Delaware, Coordinator of the International Cultural Arts Network (ICAN). Lane chose the American artwork, and the Iraqi works were chosen by Lamia Talebani of Baghdad, a founding member of ICAN and an Iraqi artist. |
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| March 15, 2008 – June 8, 2008 |
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The Baroque World of Fernando Botero
Colombian-born Fernando Botero is a painter, sculptor, and draftsman renowned for his extravagantly rounded figures combining the polish and excess of Spanish colonial baroque with the social realism of the Mexican muralists. Their humorous exaggeration belies the more serious content of Botero’s work—commentary on colonialism, political instability in Latin America, and the vernacular artistic traditions of the region, as well as European art history. |
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| February 2, 2008 – March 30, 2008 |
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Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray
Born in Hungary, Nickolas Muray became a successful New York fashion and commercial photographer known for his portraits of celebrities. Having experimented with color in his work from early on, he found his most colorful model in Frida Kahlo, whom he met in Mexico in 1931. |
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January 12, 2008 – February 24, 2008
Outlooks Exhibition Series |
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West Meets East: Encounter with Chinese Art
Organized by guest curator Taini Hsu, West Meets East features over 30 works by artists from Delaware north to New York, combining time-honored Chinese practices and subject matter with modern Western techniques and ideas. To highlight ancient Chinese artistic customs, the exhibition will also include historical masterworks from private collections of local Chinese families. |
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| November 17, 2007 – January 13, 2008 |
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Precious Spaces: Masterpieces in Miniature
The annual miniatures exhibition is the Museum’s signature holiday display, with a different Museum- or art-related theme each year. This year, the theme will convey that each vignette is a diminutive masterpiece in its own right and also a showcase for the miniature artist’s interpretation of an original, full-scale work. |
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| October 30, 2007 – December 6, 2007 |
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Seeing Our City: Wilmington
Illustration students from the Delaware College of Art and Design (DCAD) will display drawings and paintings of Wilmington as part of this joint project from DCAD, the City of Wilmington’s Office of Cultural Affairs, and the Delaware Art Museum. |
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| October 20, 2007 – January 20, 2008 |
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Seeing the City: Sloan’s New York
This exhibition focuses on John Sloan’s images of New York City in paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs to present an in-depth view of the artist’s years in the city and the city’s effect on his art. Far from glamorizing the emerging vertical vistas of sky-scrapers, Sloan focused instead on people, street life, elevated trains, public spaces, and the pedestrian experience. |
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September 23, 2007 – February 24, 2008 |
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In Company with Angels
Lost to public view for over 40 years, these rare windows showing angels from the Christian scriptures’ Book of Revelation were created by Tiffany Studios in New York City in 1902. The windows are on view alongside the Bancroft Collection to complement Pre-Raphaelite works with similar narrative qualities and Arts and Crafts inspiration. |
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| June 23, 2007 – September 16, 2007 |
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Contemporary Photography and the Garden—
Deceits and Fantasies
This exhibition looks at a group of American and European photographers and their wide range of artistic responses to the garden, from reflecting upon it as a site of lyrical beauty to drawing upon it as a dark visual metaphor for the manipulation of nature. |
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| June 1, 2007 – October 21, 2007 |
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The Cultivated Eye—Brandywine Valley Photographers
An exhibition of nature photography featuring the works of photographers from the region, The Cultivated Eye takes viewers to familiar places that they might not recognize. These images, highlighting the vitality and gloom of the natural world, will be on display in Galleries 11 and 12 as a complement to Deceits and Fantasies. |
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| March 24, 2007 – May 13, 2007 |
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Art in the ‘Toon Age
This exhibition, comprised of nearly 60 paintings, works on paper, and mixed media works, showcases artists from three generations and eight countries whose bright colors, bold linearity, and shorthand communication devices spring from the cartoon and advertising styles of the 1940s and 1950s, as well as from the post-Pop aesthetics of the later 20th century. |
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| January 27, 2007 – March 4, 2007 |
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Fever Pitch:
New Work from The Center For Emerging Visual Artists
This exhibition presents the opportunity to experience cutting edge art, including photographs, paintings, and installation works, by up-and-coming artists active in the region. These artists are all current or former fellows of The Center For Emerging Visual Artists, which is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On view January 27 through March 4, 2007. |
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| January 13, 2007 – July 15, 2007 |
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Nature/Culture/Blues: Contemporary African American Art
This exhibition seeks to explore the complicated interaction among racial identity, culture—both African and African American—and art-making. Featured artists include Melvin Edwards, Tyrone Mitchell, and Jack Whitten. |
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| November 28, 2006 – March 30, 2007 |
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James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Three oil paintings by James Jacques Joseph Tissot have been loaned to the Delaware Art Museum and are on view for a short time in Gallery 1. This special display will also feature works from the Museum’s permanent collection, including three Japanese color woodblock prints that reveal Tissot’s close scrutiny of Asian imagery. |
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| November 4, 2006–January 7, 2007 |
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Precious Spaces: The Artist’s Studio in Miniature
Detailed, three-dimensional dioramas, produced to a scale where one inch equals one foot, will allow visitors to peek into the picturesque studios of famous artists throughout the ages. |
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| October 14, 2006 – January 7, 2007 |
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Building Books: The Art of David Macaulay
Macaulay’s books, such as The Way Things Work, bring together art, history and science. The works in this exhibition convey Macaulay’s gift for communicating complex concepts within their social and historical context. |
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| August 11, 2006 – March 25, 2007 |
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From Raku to Ray Guns: Ceramics since 1960
This exhibition does not just present a series of stunning ceramic works drawn almost entirely from the Museum’s permanent collection—it delivers a hands-on education in sculpting with clay. |
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| August 5, 2006 – October 1, 2006 |
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Icons & Idols:
A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Arts, 1960-1995
A unique document of the late 20th-century art scene, this exhibition distills the finest results of Mitchell’s mission to portray the leading popular and classical artists of his day. |
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| July 27, 2006 – September 17, 2006 |
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Iconic Impressions: Prints from the 20th Century
The Museum presents approximately 20 prints it owns by artists pictured in Icons & Idols: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Arts, 1960–1995. Included are works by Salvador Dali, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Robert Indiana and Roy Lichtenstein.
At left: River of Ponds II, 1971. Frank Stella. ©2005 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. |
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| April 22, 2006 – July 16, 2006 |
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Portraits of a People:
Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century
Images made of and by African Americans and the role these images played in establishing and fostering racial identity during a period of social change. |
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| March 29, 2006 – July 16, 2006 |
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“Something waits beneath it”
Early Work by Andrew Wyeth, 1939- 1969
This intimate exhibition presents early and seldom seen works by the young Andrew Wyeth, including watercolors, tempera paintings and illustrated letters. |
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| March 17, 2006 – July 9, 2006 |
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Charles Shannon: Lithographs and Luminaries
Charles Hazelwood Shannon (1863-1937) was an active participant in and keen observer of the world of refined tastes and bold ambitions. This exhibition presents the lithographic work of this versatile painter, printmaker and collector. |
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| October 22, 2005 – January 29, 2006 |
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Pirate Tales and Beyond:
The Adventures of Rip Squeak and Friends
Paintings and drawings by California artist Leonard Filgate for the Rip Squeak series of children's books written by his wife, Susan Yost-Filgate. |
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| June 26, 2005 – October 2, 2005 |
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Consuming Desires:
Modern Marketing Posters, 1880-1918
Experience the dramatic images, innovative graphics and bold color of vintage advertising posters.
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