13 prints; 3 photographs; 2 monotypes; 1 sculpture; and a letter, all by Degas; along with 15 color aquatint facsimiles after Degas’ monotypes commissioned shortly after the artist’s death by his friend and dealer, Ambroise Vollard. A catalog accompanies the exhibition.

In its special focus the exhibition endeavors to illuminate the background, personality, and uniqueness of Edgar Degas the man, as well as presenting his genius as an artist.

Supplementing the works by Degas in the exhibition are a select group of rare works on paper by artists whose friendship he shared, including, Marcellin Desboutin, Hippolyte Flandrin, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Alphonse Legros, Gustave Moreau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, and others.

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ARTST - ACTIVIST - VISIONARY presents examples of Romare Bearden’s influences as an artist of social conscience and action. Romare Bearden (1911–1988) recognized as one of the most important visual artists of the 20th Century, countered racial stereotypes with images drawn from history, literature, and the free world of his imagination.

 

Drawn from the Romare Bearden Foundation Collection, the exhibition examines how he agitated for change through images and writing. Included are a diverse collection of original collage, watercolor, limited edition prints, reproductions, and rare archival material, including his magazine covers and editorial cartoons. The exhibition premiered at the new Black History Museum in Richmond, VA, in January, 2016. It was presented at the National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN, in 2019.

 

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Alphonse Mucha is most often remembered for the prominent role he played in shaping the aesthetics of French Art Nouveau at the turn of the 20th century.

Presented are 75 works including; rare original lithographs and proofs; 1 oil painting; 4 drawings; 1 pastel; and books, posters, portfolios and ephemera. Text panel and extended label copy are provided. A catalog is available.

The exhibition is curated by esteemed art historian, Gabriel Weisberg, Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, who has provided an essay for the exhibition catalogue. The catalogue also includes a contribution from John Mucha, Director of the Mucha Foundation.

With over 140 original works included from over 75 books, the exhibition explores the history of children’s books from the turn of the century pen and ink Mother Goose art of Sarah Noble Ives, to the most popular works of today including the digital creations of Mo Willems.

 

The exhibition features the original art of Dr. Seuss, the iconic Wild Things of Maurice Sendak and the perennial heroism of Garth Williams’ Stuart Little. Among the many classic illustrators featured are Rosemary Wells, Richard Scarry, Chris Van Allsburg and Hilary Knight. Fondly remembered characters of literature include Babar, Eloise, Madeline, the Cat in the Hat and Dick & Jane.

IMAGIMATION celebrates the ongoing 100 plus year history of original rare animation production artwork since the creation of this magical art form. The exhibition presents 137 objects - original cels, drawings and models which feature the full range of animation techniques, from the ground breaking traditional animation of Gertie the Dinosaur created by American, Winsor McCay, in 1914, through to today’s many digitally supported animation productions and applications. 

This exhibition has been collated from the vast 29,000+ piece original international animation art collection preserved over several decades by animation historians and professionals Hal and Nancy Miles, founders of the Animation Hall of Fame.

José Guadalupe Posada’s images captured all aspects of daily life in Mexico City from 1889-1913, directly inspiring artists like Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and over one hundred years later, he continues to impact countless artists creating today’s social movement imagery. Due to the scope of influence and timeless quality of Posada’s work he has been called prophetic and even the father of Mexican printmaking.

A wide representation of Posada’s work, including his famous Day of the Dead calaveras and the artist’s original printing plates, make up this unique and inspiring exhibition. Bringing together nearly sixty of the artist’s most iconic images, this exhibition is remarkable for its inclusion of rarely exhibited printing plates, many signed in the plate by Posada himself. In addition, the exhibition explores the relatively unknown relationship between the artist and Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, one Mexico City’s most popular publishers with whom Posada worked under, and collaborated with, from 1889 until his death in 1913. The exhibition is available for presentation through 2026.

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JACOB LAWRENCE: 3 SERIES OF PRINTS

GENESIS - TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE - HIROSHIMA

THE ART OF ELIZABETH CATLETT is now available for scheduling through 2021. The works comes from the collection of artist, educator and author Samella Lewis, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Art History, Scripps College, Claremont, CA. Lewis was a student of Catlett’s in the 1940’s and Catlett became her mentor. The two became lifetime friends.

 

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), a sculptor and printmaker, is widely considered one of the most important African American artists of the 20th century. Her work blended art and social consciousness and confronted the most disturbing injustices against African Americans. She is best known for her work during the 1960s and 70s, when she created politically charged, black expressionistic sculptures and prints.

Peggy Bacon

George Bellows

Lynda Benglis

Ross Bleckner

Alexander Brook

James Brooks

Rudy Burckhardt

Howard Russell Butler 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

John Chamberlain

Chuck Close

Stuart Davis

Elaine de Kooning

Willem de Kooning

Gaines Ruger Donoho 

Max Ernst

Audrey Flack

Jane Freilicher

Adolph Gottlieb

George Grosz

Beatrice Grover

Robert Gwathmey

Childe Hassam

Arthur Turnbill Hill

Jasper Johns

William King

Ibram Lassaw

Michael Lekakis

Roy Lichtenstein

Donald Lipski

Conrad Marca-Relli 

Thomas Moran

Robert Motherwell  

Hans Namuth

Francis Newton 

Alfonso Ossorio

Henry Havelock Pierce 

Jackson Pollock

Fairfield Porter 

Abraham Rattner

Robert Rauschenberg

John Reed 

Larry Rivers 

James Rosenquist 

David Salle 

Miriam Schapiro

Alan Shields 

Moses Soyer

Raphael Soyer 

Saul Steinberg

Hedda Stern 

Strong-Cuevas 

Donald Sultan 

Andy Warhol

Lemuel Maynard Wiles 

Jane Wilson

Robert Rahway Zakanitch

Joe Zucker

Guild Hall provided East Hampton with an art gallery, a theater and meeting place - the cultural center in the center of culture. Over the years they built a collection of 1900 art objects from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries which includes paintings, sculpture, prints, watercolors, drawings and photographs by internationally renowned artists. In 1973 the museum received the distinction of being accredited by the American Association of Museums.

This exhibition includes 72 works - paintings, sculpture. works on paper, prints and mixed-media drawn from the Guild Hall Collection.

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Presented are a selection of the ceramics created by Picasso in collaboration with George and Suzanne Ramie and the artisans at their Madoura pottery workshop in Vallauris, Southern France, between the years 1947 and 1971. Internationally famed for his paintings, sculpture, and graphics,

The exhibition features 40 ceramic works - plates, vases and pitchers, including 2 original ceramic works by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), plus original posters from previous exhibitions and photo murals of Picasso at work at the Madoura pottery.

Pablo Picasso was long intrigued by ceramics. After seeing the works of the Madoura potters at a crafts fair in 1946, he asked Georges and Suzanne Ramie, who operated the studio, to provide him with the opportunity to work with ceramics. From 1947 to 1971 the Ramies set aside space in their studio for Picasso to pot whenever he pleased. In return, Picasso allowed the Ramies to make and sell editions of ceramic pieces he produced at Madoura, and to retain all profits.

The exhibition features an essay and chronology of Picasso by Gerald Nordland, noted author and independent curator, and former Director of the San Francisco Art Museum.

 

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The seventy works in this exhibition date from the late 1800s to 2002 and represent just a fraction of what is contained in the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of San Antonio, TX, one of the country's major collections of African American art. Esteemed art historian, David Driskell, Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland at College Park, calls the Kelley Collection "one of the finest that has been assembled tracing the history of African American art." 

Included in the exhibition are drawings, etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, acrylics, gouaches, linoleum and color screen prints by such noted artists as Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, John Biggers, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Eldizer Cortor, Margaret Burroughs, and many other outstanding lesser known artists.

In 2001 Tom Golden donated his collection of works by renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to the Sonoma County Museum. Golden's personal and professional relationship with the artists began when he met them during the 1974 public hearings for their project "Running Fence" in Sonoma and Marin counties, 1972-1976. Golden went on to manage or assist with a number of the artists' large scale projects. Golden's remarkable collection reflects his friendship with and admiration of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Over 125 original drawings, sculptures, collages and photographs lovingly trace their impressive careers. 

PAN, the important German five-volume Art Nouveau periodical, is replete with plates, illustrations, color initials, vignettes and tail-pieces representing a multitude of processes of modern picture reproduction, including original lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts, and other original and near-original processes in black and white or full color.

Included are collection of brilliant graphic works by such French, Dutch, Belgian, German, English, and Swedish artists as Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Signac, and Seurat; Van de Velde; Rops; Kollwitz and Behrens; Nicholson, Rothenstein, and Pennell; and Anders Zorn, among many others. PAN’s literary contributers included such figures as Nietzsche, Novalis, Mallarmé, Maeterlinck, Ibsen, and Verlaine.

In 1970 David Hockney and Petersburg Press released Six Fairy Tales, a compilation of 39 etchings and the texts of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s fairy tales, including:

• The Little Sea Hare,
• Fundevogel,
• Rapunzel, 
• The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear,  
• Old Rinkrank,
• Rumpelstilzchen.

In this exhibition of 39 etchings illustrating the 6 fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hockney has given each fairy tale his own interpretation. Rather than illustrating the stories literally, he has chosen vivid images to encapsulate a mood or detail. The etchings were drawn directly onto copper plates by Hockney between May and November 1969. It was a decade in which etching featured strongly for Hockney. As well as Grimms’ Fairy Tales, he made two other important series: A Rake's Progress (1961-3) and Illustrations for Thirteen Poems for CP Cavafy (1966).

FIFTEEN MINUTES features silkscreen prints and original recordings, ranging from spoken word to music and sound, created by a diverse roster of artists, writers and performers who knew, worked with, were associated with or were inspired by Andy Warhol. Included are Patti Smith, Ivan Karp, Billy Name, Ultra Violet, Lawrence Weiner, Bob Dylan, Carter Ratcliff, John Giorno, Vincent Fremont, Alexander Heinrici, Brigid Berlin, Christopher Makos, Yura Adams, Nat Finkelstein, Connie Beckley, Susan Breen, Path Soong, and Jeff Gordon.

 

This exhibition juxtaposes each artist’s 12 x 12 inch (album sized) visual image with an audio work created in homage to Warhol. For instance, Patti Smith’s poem, “Edie,” muses on the life and death of Warhol Superstar Edie Sedgwick. Nat Finkelstein’s screen printed photograph shows Warhol and Dylan in the Factory with one of Warhol’s Elvis paintings in the background. In his song, “When I Paint My Masterpiece,” Dylan critiques the Warholian notion of fame and success. Gordon’s screen print modifies one of Warhol’s Brillo Box sculptures as a visual analogy to his sound piece, which loops excerpts from a Warhol interview and lasts for the proverbial 15 minutes.

66 works in 39 frames, plus analytical statements culled from Albers' extensive writings and text panels. Josef Albers was one of the 20th Century's most influential and articulate artist/ theorists. Formulation: Articulation is an overview of Albers' lifetime oeuvre. Published in 1972 by Harry N. Abrams, New York, the works were chosen by Albers himself and produced in silk-screen under his supervision by Ives-Sillman. Two text panels are also included: an introduction to and a chronology of Albers by noted author, art historian and independent curator, Gerald Nordland.  This exhibition is an excellent introduction to one of the most influential theories of 20th Century art and is especially well suited for teaching galleries.

Richmond Barthé (1901-1989) is recognized as one of the foremost sculptors of his generation. Following his graduation from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1928, Barthé moved to New York and established a studio in Harlem where he became associated with the Harlem Renaissance. He is also known for his many public works. The exhibition is curated by esteemed art historian, Samella Lewis, Ph.D., in conjunction with the publication of her new extensive biography Barthé, His Life In Art.

Included in the exhibition are 30 sculptures plus photomurals of Barthe and his public works. The exhibition tour will begin in the Fall of 2009 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of Arfrican American History, Detroit, MI and will then be available for scheduling beginning in 2010 through 2012. The exhibition is being organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions.

 

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