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MCMULLEN MUSEUM OF ART TO EXHIBIT SURREALIST WORKS ON PAPER JANUARY 15 w/1 cut
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CHESTNUT HILL, MASS. â The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College will host the New England premier of âAccommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy,â which will be on display from January 15 through March 24.
This national traveling exhibition includes more than 100 drawings, collages, prints, watercolors and photographs by key artists of the Surrealist movement collected by the late Julien Levy, one of the Twentieth Centuryâs most influential art dealers. The exhibition title comes from one of Salvador Daliâs most famous images, âAccommodations of Desire,â a painting that Levy once owned and counted among his favorites.
Surrealism, which dominated modern art in the 1930s and 1940s, attempted to reconcile everyday reality and the world of dreams into a superreality, or surreality. Levi described the genre as a melding of dream, metaphor, fetishism, nonsense and play. His passion for this art exceeded professional protocol. One observer described the preeminent art dealer and collector as militant about the movement whose cause he advanced through his New York gallery. A public event to celebrate the opening of the exhibition will be held at the McMullen Museum on Tuesday, January 25, from 7:30 to 9:30 pm.
The museum is located in Devlin Hall on the Chestnut Hill campus of Boston College, at 140 Commonwealth Avenue. For information, 617-552-8100 or bc.edu/artmuseum.
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GODEL & CO HUSH OF WINTER
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NEW YORK CITY â Godel & Co. Fine Art is to exhibit âThe Hush of Winter: Snow Scenes by American Artists.â The exhibition, opening January 13 and continuing through March 19, celebrates the hibernal transformation of the landscape as recorded by American artists from the Nineteenth Century to the present.
Highlights of the show include âSkating Scene in Holland,â Johann Mengels Culverhouse, which was inspired by the genre paintings of his native country. On the quieter side of winter is âWinter Farmyard,â one of the finest works by George Boice Durrie, which captures the slow rhythm of daily life in the snow-covered New England countryside.
Still other artists discovered a more subtle beauty in the winter landscape. Birge Harrison, an important Tonalist painter who led the art colony at Woodstock, N.Y., transformed a simple snow scene into a sensitive study of color in âSnow Bound.â
âThe Hush of Winter: Snow Scenes by American Artistsâ also features works by Allen Blagden, John F. Carlson, Ernest Lawson, Jonas Lie, Jervis McEntee, Walter Launt Palmer, Lilla Cabot Perry and Levi Wells Prentice.
For information, 212-288-7272 or GodelFineArt.com.
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NEW YORK CITY â Stroke! will reveal three artistsâ significant contribution to Amer-ican abstraction. The exhibition will be on view at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery from January 14 through March 12, and will feature for each artist a selection of monumental paintings and works on paper.
Beauford Delaney, Norman Lewis and Alma Thomas, three African American masters of abstraction, were courageous in their pursuit and commitment to a nonrepresentational language despite intense pressures from the African American community to depict social realist images. For each artist, abstraction was the ideal, universal language to express the beauty of the natural world, light and emotion. Each artist worked independently in his or her New York, Paris and Washington, DC studios, while developing their individual personal language of abstraction.
Alma Thomas is best known for her colorful dots and dashes in rhythmic patterns; Norman Lewis for his calligraphic âlittle figuresâ in mysterical atmospheres; and Beauford Delaney for his thick impasto swirls of brilliant color.
The Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is at 24 West 57th Street. For information, contact Maggie Seidel, associate director, at 212-247-0082 or visit www.michaelrosenfeldart.com
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âTHOMAS PAQUETTE: TRAVERSED LANDSâ TO OPEN AT SOMMERVILLE MANNING GALLERY JAN 21
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GREENVILLE, DEL. â The Somerville Manning Gallery will have a new exhibition, âThomas Paquette: Traversed Lands,â opening January 21 with an artistâs reception from 5:30 to 8 pm. The show will remain on view through February 19.
While traveling in Italy, Greece and throughout the United States, Paquette, a Western Pennsylvania artist, sketches and paints studies on site. Back in his studio he develops those studies into finished landscapes that have resided in his memory since his travels.
His bold use of color and environmental attitude define his work.
âHeâs got a dedicated personal response to the land, and heâs thinking about it environmentally and aesthetically. He pushes color for dramatic effect. Beyond just recording the natural world through his own eyes, there is a sense of both wonderment and menace,â said Bruce Brown, curator of the Maine Coast Artists Gallery in the Casco Bay Weekly, 1996.
The Somerville Manning Gallery is in Breckâs Mill just off Route 52. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm. For information, 302-652-0271 or www.SomervilleManning.com.
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