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Newsletter
- Spring 1998
Future Exhibitions
On
the Nature of Landscape
6
April - 30 May 1999
This
exhibition is premised on the assumption that landscape and nature
are not one and the same. Landscape takes its meaning from culture,
which has given various forms or categories to nature in order to
shape our sensations and perceptizons, our experience of the real
world. Those categories might be described as moving from the most
ordered-the city-to the opposite-the untamed mountainscape, or the
infinity of outer space. The meaning of these categories changes
over time. For example, people recoiled from the unknown depths
of the wilderness during the Renaissance while in more modern times,
from the Enlightenment onward, the wilderness has taken on an ever
increasing value under the pressure of urbanization and population
growth.
The installation will be divided into sections that focus on
a variety of themes, among them, "Picturing the City,"
"Framing the Grove," "The Meanings of Wilderness,"
"Landscapes of Tourism and Leisure," and "Landscapes
of the Mind." To challenge the viewer's ideas about landscape,
written responses to individual works or groups of works will
be presented by art historians, anthropologists, artists, and
students.
Paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and objects in other
media representing the tradition of landscape in Eastern and Western
art will be drawn from the museum's holdings and from public and
private collections. Two important landscapes by Claude Monet
and Fernand Léger will be featured among the works on loan
for the exhibition. These paintings will also be the subjects
of special lectures by Robert L. Herbert, Professor Emeritus of
Mount Holyoke College and author of a number of books and essays
on Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, as well as other subjects
and on Monet, Seurat, and Léger in particular.
Roy R. Neuberger and American Modernism
at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
8 September - 15 December 1998
Collecting art has been a lifelong passion for Roy Neuberger.
An early sojourn in Paris to study painting convinced him that
his eye was better than his hand, and he abandoned his dream of
becoming an artist. It was also during that Parisian experience
that he learned Vincent van Gogh died a very poor man, having
never gained recognition for his talent. Mr. Neuberger, in his
early twenties, determined that he would find a way to encourage
and support struggling artists. He went to Wall Street in order
to make the money he would need to implement this plan. In a recent
autobiography, So Far, So Good-The First 94 Years, he discusses
some of the reasons for his professional success. And his success
on Wall Street has, indeed, enabled him to support artists. The
vast majority of his purchases were of works created by living
painters and sculptors.
Not only has Mr. Neuberger developed a very substantial and
significant collection of American modern art, over the years
he has also
shared his collection with several art museums, colleges, and
universities through donations. The Neuberger Museum of Art
at
Purchase College, State University of New York at Purchase, is
named in honor of his major gift of artworks to that institution.
The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum has also benefited from
his generosity. He contributed nineteen paintings to the museum's
permanent collection between 1953 and 1963. These works will
form the nucleus of an exhibition that will provide an overview
of
advanced art in the United States during the first half of this
century. The exhibition, drawn entirely from the museum's holdings,
will feature the work of artists such as Robert Henri, Milton
Avery, John Marin, and Romare Bearden.
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