| August 1, 2009 – January 3, 2010 |
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Illustrating Her World: Ellen B. T. Pyle
Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle (1876-1936) was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She studied art at the Drexel Institute, and she was one of the few female students invited to study illustration at Howard Pyle’s Chadds Ford summer school. She receives the first overview of her career in this exhibition of approximately 50 works. |
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| August 15, 2009 – October 4, 2009 |
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Exposed! — Revealing Sources in Contemporary Art
Since the 1960s a wide range of artists—including Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, and Ellen Gallagher—have made pictures that reference specific works of art and popular culture. Displaying these paintings, prints, and photographs alongside images of their sources, Exposed! explores artistic strategies of quotation and appropriation. |
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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 traveled 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. |
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| February 6, 2010 – May 16, 2010 |
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Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney
Inspired by archaeology, lost civilizations, and the art of illustration, Gurney’s Dinotopia is an extraordinary place where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony in a society that has its own language and alphabet (dinosaur footprints that correspond to each letter of the Roman alphabet). Gurney’s stories and art fuse fantasy with realism and scientific accuracy. |
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| June 19, 2010 – August 29, 2010 |
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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. |
