January
09
THE HIGH: AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS: ANGLO-AMERICAN PORTRAITURE IN AN ERA OF REVOLUTION & AMERICAN ART PERMANENT COLLECTION
The High Museum of Art, Musée du Louvre, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art will present the third installation in their four-year collaboration focusing on the history of American art. American Encounters: Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution provides a close look at five portraits that demonstrate how portraiture style evolved in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as American and European painters were influenced by each other. The installation’s five works have never been displayed together previously.
Following its presentation at the Louvre (Feb. 1–April 28, 2014), the installation will travel to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark. (May 17–Sept. 15, 2014) and the High Museum of Art (Sept. 28, 2014–Jan. 18, 2015).
The American art collection at the High features significant works by renowned nineteenth- and twentieth-century American artists such as William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Henry Ossawa Tanner, John Twachtman, Marsden Hartley, and Andrew Wyeth. It includes landscapes by Hudson River School artists, figure paintings by Henry Inman and John Singer Sargent, and still-life paintings by John Frederick Peto, William Michael Harnett, and William Mason Brown. Recent acquisitions have focused on American painting and sculpture of the late nineteenth century as well as twentieth-century modernism with works by artists ranging from painters Benjamin West, Frederic Edwin Church, and John Singer Sargent and the sculptor Edmonia Lewis to such influential modernists as Joseph Stella, Georgia O’Keeffe, and John Marin, bringing the American collection to more than 1,000 objects.
POSSE PHOTOS:
Exhibition Overview
Lia, Layla and Isabel with montage from exhibition
Lia, Layla and Isabel with montage from the exhibition
Isabel with portrait of Lieutenant Robert Hay of Spott
Bryan, Grandma, Iman, Layla and Lia examining an image from the exhibition
Bryan speaking with the group
Bryan, Iman, Layla and Grandma
Layla and Isabel with portrait of the Duke of Northumberland
Layla making a point with Bryan and Isabel
Bryan, Layla and Isabel admiring an image
Isabel making a point with Bryan and Layla
Bryan, Layla and Isabel with the portrait of the Duke
Lia making a point with Isabel and Bryan
Layla, Lia, Isabel and Bryan with a George Washington portrait
wall montage
Isabel, Bryan, Lia and Layla
Bryan, Isabel & Lia
Lia Isabel, Layla and Bryan discussing the large George Washington portrait
George Washington captured by Gilbert Stewart
Gilbert Stewart portrait info
Rembrandt Peale portrait info
Rembrandt Peale George Washington porthole portrait
Bryan, Layla, Isabel and Lia looking at the Porthole Portrait of George Washington
Bryan and Layla
Gilbert Stweart portrait of The Duke of Northumberland
The Duke of Northumberland
Sir Henry Raeburn portrait info
Sir Henry Raeburn portrait of Lieutenant Robert Hay of Spott
Exhibition montage
Bryan, Isabel Layla and Lia
Tai-O-Mah – Fox Medicine Man
Layla with Bryan discussing Tai-O-Mah the Fox Medicine Man
Tooan-Tuh – Cherokee
Bryan with Isabel, Layla and Lia
Top row of portraits
Text about portraits
Qua-Ta-Wa-Pea – Shawnee
Yoholo-Micco – Creek
Native-American portraits by Henry Inman
Henry Inman Native-American portrait names
The Morse family before their death (Morse Code)
David Baldwin
Layla, Lia and Bryan discussing the David Baldwin portrait
David Baldwin Portrait text
The group connecting American portraiture to the modern day “Selfie”
American Art Exhibition text
Layla showing Bryan a detail on the Century Vase
Bryan, Layla and Lia looking at detail of the Century Vase
Century Vase description
Closeup of the Century Vase
Bryan talking about the Century Vase
Layla, Bryan, Isabel and Lia
Bryan, Layla, Isabel and Lia
Bryan discussing the Century Vase
