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To complement its collections, the Museum regularly presents important temporary exhibitions from leading art museums throughout the world. These changing exhibitions offer exposure to a variety of art historical movements, media and artists. In addition, the Delaware Art Museum organizes major exhibitions which frequently travel to museums across the country.
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March 29, 2008 – May 4, 2008
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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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| 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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| 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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September 23, 2007 – February 24, 2008*
*Extended from original end date of January 31, 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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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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| 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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| 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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| June 1 – 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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| June 23 – 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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| January 13 – 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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| March 24–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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| 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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| 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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| January 27–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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| 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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| 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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August 5–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–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: Frank Stella, River of Ponds II, 1971
©2005 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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April 22–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–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–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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