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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February 21, 2009 – May 17, 2009 |
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John Sloan in Philadelphia and New York
Welcome back! This focused exhibition celebrates the return of several of John Sloan’s works, which have been traveling as part of Seeing the City: Sloan’s New York since early 2008. Sloan made his hometown of Philadelphia the subject of many of his works before moving to New York in 1904. His images of pedestrians and public places helped define New York City in the popular imagination. |
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| May 2, 2009 – July 12, 2009 |
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Ancestry and Innovation:
African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum
This exhibition features textiles, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by contemporary African American artists. From vibrant quilts and weathervanes to provocative assemblages and paintings, this wide-ranging exhibition explores the artistic expressions of self-taught African American artists from the rural South and the urban North. |
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| August 1, 2009 – January 3, 2010 |
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Illustrating Her World: Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle
Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle (1876 – 1936) receives the first overview of her career ever gathered in this exhibition of approximately 50 works. Ellen Pyle was one of only a small number of female illustrators who created covers for the Saturday Evening Post, and within that group, only two other women sold more covers to the magazine. While her earliest SEP covers were of the standard “pretty woman type,” she made her mark with vignettes of daily family life. |
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| August 22, 2009 – October 4, 2009 |
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Fifty Works for the First State:
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
This exhibition of Minimal and Conceptual art is comprised of 50 works of art that the Delaware Art Museum received as a gift from the renowned collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. |
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| October 17, 2009 – January 17, 2010 |
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Maxfield Parrish: Illustrated Letters
In 1884 – 85, the teenage Maxfield Parrish travelled to England and Europe with his parents. In his letters home to a cousin and his grandmother, Parrish chronicled and illustrated his experiences. The illustrations reveal Parrish’s absorption and interpretation of popular culture. These youthful illustrated letters provide a peek at life in England and Europe in the mid-1880s and a link to Parrish’s amazing adult talent and humor. |
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| October 31, 2009 – January 10, 2010 |
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Fantasies and Fairy-Tales:
Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Though recent scholarship has paid increased attention to Maxfield Parrish’s career as a fine artist, the immense popularity of his work during the early 20th century rested on his appeal as a commercial artist. In many cases, Parrish’s original paintings were a direct result of his commercial enterprises. |
