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29366
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One of the country’s most distinguished collections of early twentieth-century German paintings will be on display in the Museum on loan from the Saint Louis Art Museum. The forty-five paintings by most of the important members of the German avant-garde were collected during the first half of the century by Morton D. May. Half of the exhibition is devoted to Max Beckmann who fled the Nazis and taught at in Saint Louis at Washington University.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Winter 1985-1986, p11-12
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29392
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This exhibition will feature forty-five works by major figures in the German avant-garde during the early 20th century. Artists represented include Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Lyonel Feininger, Emil Nolde, and most importantly, Max Beckmann. Half of the exhibition is devoted to Beckmann who has been described as the greatest German painter of the 20th century. The exhibition is previewed with particular attention given to Beckmann, his biography, his paintings, and his style.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Spring 1986, p6-8
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29737
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The removal of a painting for conservation has opened the opportunity for 13 Dutch Kabinet paintings from the 17th century to be displayed. These small, finely crafted paintings would have displayed in the Dutch home in the 17thcentury. The collection includes still-lifes, history scenes, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life and are among the most important treasures at the Museum.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , July/Aug 2007, p10-11
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29245
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Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros was one of the most talented European painters working in Mexico in the early nineteenth century while he served as a French diplomat. The Museum recently acquired Gros’ Crater of Popocatepetl given as a gift in memory of Harlan Craig Brown. The oil painting depicts the crater of the famous volcano of Popocatepetl and was painted in 1833.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Spring 1984, p10
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29354
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A terracotta sculpture by French artist Joseph Charles Marin (1759-1834) was recently purchased by the Museum. The sculpture is titled Bacchante Carrying a Child on Her Shoulders and was sculpted during the late 18th century when such sculptures were popular. Marin was a student and collaborator of the artist Claude-Michel Clodion and likely created the figure between the 1780s and 1796.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Autumn 1985, p14-15
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29281
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The Museum has recently acquired American Landscape with Revolutionary Heroes, 1983, by Roger Brown, American, 1941- and Study for the “Race of the Riderless Horses,” circa 1820, by Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet, French, 1789-1863. Brown’s painting was purchased with funds from the Madeleine Johnson Heidrick bequest and depicts Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and other revolutionary war heroes in shadow. Vernet’s painting was purchased with funds given by MR. and Mrs. Warner L. Atkins and is a study for another work, depicting a popular horse race held during the Roman carnival season in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Autumn 1984, p
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29290
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The Museum recently acquired works titled Cabbage Worship, 1982, by Gilbert and George, British and Agony in the Garden, by Giovanni “Guercino” Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), Italian. Cabbage Worship addresses how individuals put their faith in fake causes by having individuals worship a head of cabbage. Agony in the Garden was painted between 1627 and 1632, probably for the altar of a chapel in the church of St. Margherita in Bologna, and depicts an angel appearing to Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. A description and short biography of the artists is described.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Winter 1984/1985, p11-12
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29306
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Several sixteenth- and seventeenth- century works were received at the Museum as gifts from the late Mrs. George Khuner of Beverly Hills, California. The gift includes seventeen Dutch, Flemish, Italian, and German paintings. The masterpiece of the group is a work titled Virgin and Child in a Landscape by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553). Cranach was highly influential upon his contemporaries and his biography and the painting are briefly described.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Spring 1985, p13
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29505
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The new exhibit Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals and Their Contemporaries will be on display in the Meymandi Exhibition Gallery through January. This exhibition is the first ever to focus on small portraits by Dutch and Flemish painters from the seventeenth century. During the seventeenth century, portrait painting was not highly regarded, but the group of artists exhibited elevated the status of portraiture with their skill. The exhibition is previewed by describing the history of the period, describing portraits painted by Vermeer and Rembrandt , and describing the impact of masterpieces.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Fall 2014, p6-11
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29284
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The still life paintings by Spanish artist Luis Melendez (1716-80) are the subject of an upcoming exhibition. The exhibition will be the most comprehensive one to date of the Spanish master’s still-lifes. Thirty-five works will be shown at a time of renewed interest in Spanish art in the U.S. A biography of the artist, a description of his style, and commentary on his impact on the art world are also detailed.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Winter 1984/1985, p3-6
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29606
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A new exhibit showcasing still-life paintings will be on display at the Museum on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition is centered on the idea of looking and looking at objects closely, slowly, and thinking about them. To preview the exhibition, the history of the form of still-life painting is explored and some of the more famous and interesting works by Paul Cezanne, John Frederick Peto, Auguste Renoir, and Girorgio Morandi are profiled.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Fall 2012, p6-11
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26215
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Andrea Bolland, a doctoral student of art, is studying an early European Renaissance artist named Andrea Mantegna. Bolland sheds new light on the fusion Mantegna provides between the classical stylists of central Italian artists and the more ornate tendancies of those in northern Italy.
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1573
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\"The Age of the Marvelous,\" an exhibition planned at the North Carolina Museum of Art for January 25 - March 22, 1992, will explore the 16th- and 17th-century fascination with the \"marvelous,\" meaning the unusual, unexpected, and/or exotic.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Winter 1992, p9-11, il
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29506
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Curator Dennis P. Weller of the North Carolina Museum of Art is interviewed about the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. Vermeer’s work is featured in the new exhibition Small Treasures. Vermeer’s popularity, his skill, his style, and the importance of exhibiting his work in Raleigh are all discussed.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Fall 2014, p14-17, il
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29324
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A group of French and American paintings from the turn of the century will be shown together as an introduction to the Twentieth Century Gallery. Included will be two works that have been on view recently as well as serval important paintings that have not been on display for a number of years. Paintings by Pierre Bonnard, Jacque-Emile Blanche, William Merritt Chase, and Gari Melcher are included and previewed.
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Preview (NoCar Oversize N 715 R2 A26), Vol. Issue , Summer 1985, p13-14