November 5, 1945
The Brooklyn Museum is holding an important exhibition of European and American landscape painting from the fourteenth century to the present. The exhibition, which will open November 9 and continue through January 1, 1946, will include about 80 paintings, many of them loans from other museums and private collections.
The exhibition will illustrate the development of both the philosophical and visual points of view toward landscape. Henry-Russell Hitchcock of Wesleyan University, has written a foreword to the catalogue of the exhibition in which he discusses the attitudes which have controlled landscape painting in the past and the possibility that “a new aerial vision may renew the art of landscape painting in the twentieth century.”
The list of paintings to be included in the exhibition (see attached sheet) was compiled by R. Kirk Askew, Jr., who thereby established the concept and character of the show. The choice of paintings was governed by the philosophy and climate of opinion of the period and the artist. It is the first time that landscape has been presented from this approach in an art exhibition.
PRESS PREVIEW: Monday, November 5, from 10 to 4.
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November 8, 1945
THE DELUGE
Allston, Washington
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
VIEW OF PIRNAU
Bellotto, Bernardo
Lent by Wadsworth Athenaeum
MEMORIES OF ISCHIA
Berman, Eugene
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. James Thrall Soby, Famington, Conn.
MOONLIGHT
Blakelock, Ralph Albert
In the collection of the Brooklyn Museum
THE ISLAND OF THE DEAD
Boecklin, Arnold
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
HILLSIDE
Bonington, Richard Parkes
Lent by Mrs. Samuel D. Warren, Boston, Mass.
GARDEN OF PARADISE
Bosch, Hieronymus
Lent by The Art Institute of Chicago
MOSES BEFOR THE BURNING BUSH
Bouts, Dirk
Johnson Art Collection, Philadelphia, Pa,
UNFAITHFUL SHEPHERD
Bruegel, Pieter, The Elder
Johnson Art Collection, Philadelphia, Pa.
ROGUES’ GALLERY
Burchfield, Charles
Lent by The Museum of Modern Art
TRIUMPH OF SUMMER
Caron, Antoine
Lent by Wildenstein and Co., Inc., New York
HERCULES AND THE NEMEAN LION
Carracci, Annibale
Lent by Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University
LA MONTAGNE SAINTE-VICTOIRE
Cezanne, Paul
Lent by Phillips Memorial Gallery
SILENUS
Cima da Conegliano
Lent by Johnson Art Collection, Phil. Pa.
EXPLUSION FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN
Cole, Thomas
Lent anonymously through The Museum of Fine Arts Boston
THE BRIDGE FARM, BERGHOLT
Constable, John
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. L. Denis Peterkin, Andover, Mass.
LA SOLITUDE
Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille
Lent by Mrs. William H. Moore, New York
VIEW OF ROME: THE BRIDGE AND THE CASTLE OF ST. ANGELO WITH THE CUPOLA OF ST. PETERS
Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille
Lent by The California Palace of the Legion of Honor
LE ROCHER ISOLE
Courbet, Gustave
In the collection of The Brooklyn Museum
THE NYMPH OF THE SPRING
Cranach, Lucas, The Elder
Lent by Clarence Y. Palitz, New York
WOODED LANDSCAPE
Crome, John, called Old Crome
Lent by The Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection, Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Texas
ARABS RESTING
Delacroix, Eugene
Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art
OARSMEN ON THE SCHUYLKILL
Eakins, Thomas
In the collection of the Brooklyn Museum
CAMPFIRE
Eilshemius, Louis M.
In the collection of the Brooklyn Museum
SWAMP ANGEL
Ernst, Max
Kenneth McPherson, New York City
PARABLE OF THE SOWING OF THE TARES
Feti, Domenico
Lent by Worcester Art Museum
ST. JEROME IN THE WILDERNESS
Filippo da Verona
Lent by Durlacher Brothers, New York
FETE DONNEE a RAMBOUiLLET par le DUC de PENTHIEVRE a LA FAMILLE ROYALE
Fragonard, Jean Honore
Lent by Mrs. Herbert N. Straus, New York
THE MARKET CART
Gainsborough, Thomas
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Williams, N. Y.
A MIRACLE OF ST. CLARE
Giovanni di Paolo
Lent by The Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Coliection, Museum of Fine Arts of Houston
THE HUDSON RIVER IN AUTUMN
Gignoux, Regis Francois
In the collection of The Brooklyn Museum
THE HOUR GLASS
Giorgione (?)
Lent by Phillips Memorial Gallery
PARK ON THE RIVER
Glackens, William James
In the collection of The Brooklyn Museum
LES PAVEURS
Gogh, Vincent William Van
Lent by Miss Elizabeth Hudson, Syracuse
VIEW OF RYNLAND
Goyen, Jan van
Lent by Smith College Museum of Art
VIEW OF MESTRE
Guardi, Francesco
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, Grosse Pointe, Michigan
THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM
Hicks, Edward
In the collection of The Brooklyn Museum
ROAD IN THE WOODS
Hobbema, Meindert
Lent by William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts
THE NOONING
Homer, Winslow
Lent anonymously
THE FLOWER GARDEN
Hooch, Pieter de
In the collection of The Brooklyn Museum
THE MONK
Inness, George
Lent by Stephen C. Clark, New York
LAKE GEORGE
Kensett, John Frederick
In the collection of The Brooklyn Museum
VILLAS AND BARRACKS
Klee, Paul
Lent by George Platt Lynes, New York
MILK TRAIN
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo
Lent by Newark Museum
PEASANTS IN A LANDSCAPE
LeNain, Louis
Lent by Wadsworth Athenaeum
CRUCIFIXION
Lorenzo, Monaco
Lent by Yale University Art Gallery
THE DANCE BY THE WATERSIDE
Lorrain, Claude
Lent by Captain Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa.
THE MILL ON THE TIBER
Lorrain, Claude
Lent by William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts
THE CASTAWAYS
Magnasco, Alessandro
Lent by City Art Museum of St. Louis
PAYSAGE du MONTALBAN
Matisse, Henri
Lent by Pierre Matisse, New York
THE TILLED FIELD
Miro, Joan
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford, Radnor, Pa.
THE DUCAL PALACE AT VENICE
Monet, Claude
In the collection of The Brooklyn Museum
THE SPIRIT OF THE INDIAN
Moran, Thomas
Lent by Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa
THE BATH
Pater, Jean Baptiste Joseph
Lent by Wildenstein and Co., Inc., New York
REST ON THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT
Patinir, Joachim
Lent by Minneapolis Institute of Arts
VULCAN AND AEOLUS AS TEACHERS OF MANKIND
Piero di Cosimo
Lent by National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
FUNERAL OF PHOCION
Poussin, Nicolas
Lent by Musee du Louvre
WOODED RIVER VALLEY WITH COWS
Rembrandt, Hermanszoon van Rijn
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Sibley Webster, Boston
VUE de la BAIE de NAPLES
Renoir, Pierre Auguste
Lent by Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York
LANDSCAPE WITH TEMPLE RUIN
Robert, Hubert
Lent by Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc. New York City
LANDSCAPE WITH HERDSMEN
Rosa, Salvator
Lent by Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
STORM IN THE JUNGLE
Rousseau, Henri, Julien Felix
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford, Radnor, Pa.
THE CEMETERY
Ruisdael, Jacob van
Lent by Detroit Institute of Arts
ELEMENTAL FORCES
Ryder, Albert Pinkham
Lent by Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy
ST. ANTHONY ABBOT TORMENTED BY DEMONS
Sassetta
Lent by Yale University Art Gallery
RIVER LANDSCAPE
Seghers, Hercules
Lent by Detroit Institute of Arts
CARNIVORA
Seligmann, Kurt
Lent by Smith College Museum of Art
FOURTH OF JULY ORATOR
Shahn, Ben
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. James Thrall Soby, Framington, Conn.
TREE OF VENCE
Soutine, Chaim
Lent by Mrs. Lloyd Bruce Wescott, Clinton, N. J.
LANDSCAPE OF LONELINESS
[unclear]mpfig, Walter, Jr.
Lent by The Art Institute of Chicago
PROJECT POUR UN NUAGE
Tanguy, Yves
Lent by Pierre Matisse, New York
DEBRY HILL THEME
Tchelitchew, Pavel
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. George Gallowhur, Reading, Vt.
QUEEN MAB’S GROTTO
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art
THE WRECK
Vernet, Claude Joseph
In the collection of The Brooklyn Museum
JACOB AT THE WELL
Veronese, Paolo
Lent anonymously
TWO TREES
Weber, Max
Lent by Dr. Harry A. Blutman, New York
THE LAGOON, VENICE: NOCTURNE IN BLUE AND SILVER
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
Lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
WINTER FIELDS
Wyeth, Andrew
Lent by Mrs. Josiah Marvel, Jr., Coatesville, Pennsylvania
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August 29, 1944
AMERICAN PEWTER
Exhibition date extended through November 4, 1945
Outstanding examples selected from the John W. Poole Collection recently purchased by the Museum, and additional pieces received as gifts from other sources. This exhibition, based on design and form, emphasizes the intrinsic beauty of early American pewter and illustrates its extensive use in the everyday life of America during the 18th and 19th centuries.
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
October 5 - December 10, 1945
An exhibition of about 60 lithographs and engravings depicting the days of the flatboats, steamboats, riverpilots, and midnight races, plantations and luxury “showboats” of the Mississippi before and after the Civil War. The greater portion of the lithographs were issued by Currier and Ives and other American lithographic houses which flourished in the 19th century. The majority of the prints have been lent through the courtesy of Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
THE NEGRO ARTIST COMES OF AGE
PORTRAITS OF DISTINGUISHED NEGRO CITIZENS
November 2 - November 25, 1945
An exhibition of 61 paintings and sculptures, which originated at the Albany Institute of History and Art, and is now being circulated by The American Federation of Arts. A group of portraits of distinguished Negro citizens will be shown with this exhibition.
LANDSCAPE
November 8, 1945--January 1, 1946
European and American landscape painting, with loans from many museums and private collections (about 70 canvases), showing the development of both the philosophical and visual points of view towards landscape from the early fourteenth century to the present. There will be a detailed and illustrated catalogue. In connection with this large exhibition, the Museum is planning two smaller shows which will be on view at the same time: landscape water colors from the Museum collection and a group of unusual landscape photographs.
PORTRAITS OF CHILDREN
From the Museum’s Print Collection
December 14--January 6, 1946
A special Christmas exhibition of Children’s Portraits by 19th and 20th century artists, from the Museum’s Print Collection.
GOLD, SILVER and JADE
December 20 - closing date indefinite
An exhibition of rare examples from the Museum’s famous Pre-Columbian collection of gold, silver and jade, representing Central and South America, especially Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Peru. A few items will be borrowed from private collectors.
PAINTING GALLERIES RE-OPENED
January 4, 1946
Plans are being made to re-hang all painting galleries. European and American paintings, including Homer and Sargent water colors, which have been in storage for the duration, will be placed on permanent exhibition.
OUR FABRIC HERITAGE
January 15 - March 30, 1946
A three-dimensional history of textiles. The inventions and developments in all phases of textile arts and techniques, from the earliest fibers, dyes and looms to the present, will be illustrated by maps, models and materials. In connection with the exhibition there will be lectures by leading authorities on such phases of the fabric arts as the development of historical and synthetic fibers, printing and finishing of materials, and the technological skills in the field. These lectures will be for the professional public and admission will be by invitation only.
30th ANNUAL, THE BROOKLYN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS
April 17 - May 26, 1946
In keeping with established precedent, artists residing or teaching in Brooklyn will be invited to submit works in oil, water color, black and white and sculpture for selection by a jury.
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