The Clark explores the art of copying – “Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art” opens

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute opened its latest exhibition, Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art, on January 29. Exploring the line between innovation and imitation, the exhibition features 50 prints and photographs that are both original works of art and repetitions of drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and architecture created by other artists. The exhibition highlights the complex process of copying by studying replications of many rarely seen works from the Clark’s permanent collection, including those by Albrecht Dürer, Paul [...]

Impressionist masters from the Clark Collection on view at CaixaForum in Barcelona

BARCELONA.- In April 1874 the first exhibition was held in the studio of the photogra-pher Nadar, in the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, of a group of painters who had been rejected in the Official Salon: the Impressionists. European art entered into a new stage, marked by a series of very rapid changes that, in just a few years, dispensed with appearance, natural colours, the subject and perspective: the elements that, since the Renaissance, had characterised pictorial representation. When Sterling Clark [...]

Magnificent Early Renoir and an Extraordinary Story of Jealousy at TEFAF Maastricht

HELVOIRT.- A major work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from the pioneering early days of Impressionism is to be offered for sale for US$15 million by the leading international gallery Dickinson at TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s most influential art and antiques fair. Femme cueillant des Fleurs (Woman picking flowers) depicts Camille Monet, the first wife of Renoir’s fellow Impressionist Claude Monet, who died tragically young. It is being sold through Dickinson by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in the United [...]

Clark Art Institute to Explore Rarely Examined Side of Pissarro in Exhibition

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Pissarro’s People is the first major U.S. museum exhibition of the artist’s works in 30 years. Bringing together paintings from collections around the world, the exhibition will challenge our understanding of the father of Impressionism by focusing on Camille Pissarro’s engagement with the human figure in a highly personal and poignant exploration of his humanism. Pissarro’s People will be on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, from June 12 to October 2, 2011. [...]

Clark Art Institute to Launch First International Tour of Masterpieces from the Collection

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Continuing its commitment to global outreach and cultural exchange, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will tour masterpieces from its collection of nineteenth-century European paintings to leading museums around the world beginning this spring. The Clark’s first-ever international tour of masterpieces from its collection will include many of the greatest works from its extraordinary holdings of French Impressionism and European paintings. The exhibition features 73 paintings, including works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, [...]

Clark Art Institute Investigates European Portraiture in the Exhibition Eye to Eye

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- A special exhibition of European portrait painting, featuring works by master artists from the late fifteenth century through the early nineteenth century, is on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute from January 23 through March 27, 2011, in the exhibition Eye to Eye: European Portraits 1450–1850. Representing the range of styles and themes in Old Master portraiture as practiced in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, England, and France, the twenty-nine paintings and one sculpture in the [...]

Prado Museum Loses Visitors in 2010 but More Students and Tourists Visit the Museum

MADRID.- The Museo del Prado, in 2010, concluded the third consecutive year surpassing the 2.7 million annual visitors, a figure that was reached for the first time since the opening of its expansion. The final number of visitors received by the Museum during this year, 2,732,000, has been almost equal to that recorded in 2009, 2,764,155, and in 2008, 2,759,029 the first full year period of the expansion in full operation. As for the reasons to visit, a 57.58% of [...]

The Museo del Prado extending the exhibition “A Passion for Renoir”

MADRID – Commissioned by Javier Baron, Chief of Department of Painting of the XIX century the Prado, and Richard Rand, Chief Curator of Clark Art Institute, the exhibition presents for the first time in Europe thirty-one artist works from private collections preserved in Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Mass.). Since opening last October, Passion for Renoir, sponsored by Fundación BBVA, has become one of the most visited exhibitions of the art scene in Madrid. Therefore, and in view of the massive [...]

Explore The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Considered by many to be the greatest German artist of all time, Albrecht Dürer was celebrated during his lifetime as a painter, printmaker, and writer. His innovative techniques revolutionized printmaking, and his theoretical writings transformed the study of human proportion. Deeply embedded in a tumultuous era of religious reformation and scientific inquiry, Dürer used his art to reflect the spiritual and social preoccupations of his time. The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer, on view at the Sterling and [...]

Sotheby’s Auction of 19th Century European Art to Include Important Works by Giovanni Boldini

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s 4 November auction of 19th Century European Art in New York will feature three works by the prominent Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. This offering comes just after the close of the important exhibition Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, which opened at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 2009 and traveled to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts in early 2010. This exhibition represented the first major show of the artist’s work outside of [...]

First Exhibition to Explore Picasso’s Response to Degas

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Throughout his life Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was fascinated with the life and work of Edgar Degas (1834–1917). Picasso collected the Impressionist’s pictures, continually re-interpreted his images, and at the end of his life, created scenes that included depictions of Degas himself. Picasso Looks at Degas, a ground-breaking exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute during the summer of 2010 brings together over one hundred works from international museums and private collections. The exhibition is the first [...]

AAMD Museums Join in Celebration of International Museum Day on May 18th

NEW YORK, NY.- The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) announced today that member institutions will be participating in International Museum Day on May 18, 2010 by offering free or reduced admission, special programs, or other initiatives as part of their celebrations. AAMD member museums—located across the United States, Canada, and Mexico—include smaller regional museums as well as leading international institutions. International Museum Day is organized annually around the world by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). AAMD participation will [...]

Hauser & Wirth to Open New Mayfair Gallery Autumn 2010

LONDON.- Leading international gallery Hauser & Wirth has announced plans to open a new space in autumn 2010 at 23 Savile Row, London. The gallery will occupy the entire ground floor of a newly developed building comprising column-free raw space with an industrial feel and 6m high ceilings. The opening show will be a major exhibition by Louise Bourgeois whose Tate Modern retrospective confirmed her status as one of the world’s most respected artists. “We are delighted to add 23 [...]

Newly-Acquired Rousseau Subject of January 14 Gallery Talk

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Join Richard Rand, senior curator and curator of paintings and sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, for a look at the newly-acquired painting Farm in the Landes (House of the Garde) by Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau. The acquisition of this major nineteenth-century landscape painting brings to the public one of the greatest Barbizon School paintings, which until now has been held in private collections and has not been widely exhibited since 1946. This Looking at [...]

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to show 19th Century Photographs of Rome

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Through 100 photographs taken between 1850 and 1880, the exhibition Steps off the Beaten Path: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Rome and its Environs encourages a “walking tour” through Rome with recognizable sites among the out-of-the-way scenes nineteenth-century Romans and Europeans encountered in their daily lives. The exhibition opens at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Sunday, October 11th through 3 January, 2010. Steps off the Beaten Path was first presented at the American Academy in New York [...]

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