FOR JANUARY
FOR JANUARY
FRICK ART & HISTORICAL PRESENTS PITTSBURGH IN PRINT
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PITTSBURGH, PENN. â As part of its contribution to the celebrations surrounding Pittsburghâs 250th anniversary, the Frick Art & Historical Center will present two exhibitions that examine the various ways the city has been depicted on paper by artists from the Nineteenth Century through the present.
Contemporary artist Craig McPherson works in the urban-realist tradition, producing finely detailed atmospheric renderings of urban and industrial environments. His preference for urban subject matter and unpopulated shadowy night scenes is evocative of both the Ashcan School of the early Twentieth Century, and the cinematography of mid-Twentieth Century film noir.
âSteel: Pittsburgh Drawings,â March 8âJune 8, gathers together some of McPhersonâs existing Pittsburgh-related mezzotints and expands upon his industrial themes with a body of new work in graphite and pastel.
From June 28 to October 5, the Frick Art Museum will show âA Panorama of Pittsburgh: Nineteenth Century Printed Views.â
This exhibition and accompanying catalog will provide an in-depth consideration of the history of printed views of Pittsburgh and printmaking in the city, telling the story of the region as well as of the use of prints of cityscapes during the period. There have been no previous exhibitions that have studied this material systematically, using examples from private, public, corporate and club collections in Pittsburgh, as well as institutions around the country.
Guest curator Christopher W. Lane is an expert on antique prints, maps and books. He has written Impressions of Niagara, documenting the Charles Rand Penney collection of more than 700 printed images of Niagara Falls; curated an exhibition of the Penney collection at the Castellani Art Gallery; and he appears regularly as the print and map expert on The Antiques Roadshow.
The Frick Art & Historical Center is at 7227 Reynolds Street. For information, 412-371-0600 or www.frickart.org.