VMFA Announces Exhibition Lineup to Follow Grand Opening in May
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VMFA, has announced a lineup of exhibitions that will begin when the museum opens its new $150-million James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing May 1, 2010. This exhibition of more than 70 paintings, works on paper and sculptures – dating from the antebellum to the modern periods – is drawn from one of the finest private collections of historical American art in the country. Featured artists include George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, William Merrit Chase, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, George Luks, William Rimmer, John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler. “American Art from the McGlothlin Collection” / May 1, 2010-July 18, 2010.
“American Art from the McGlothlin Collection” celebrates the opening of VMFA’s $150-million expansion and pays tribute to donors James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin. All works in the exhibition are promised gifts to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
“German Expressionist Art from the Fischer Collection”
May 1, 2010-July 18, 2010
The Fischer Collection – one of the most important private holdings of German Expressionist art – was acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2009. It includes works by such major figures as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Pechstein, Conrad Felixmüller, Otto Müller and Lyonel Feininger. Selected highlights of the collection will be displayed during the opening of the museum’s McGlothlin Wing.
“Matisse, Picasso and Modern Art in Paris”
May 1, 2010-July 25, 2010
The exhibition marks the first time in five decades that selections from a significant Virginia art collection are reunited.
The collector was T. Catesby Jones (1880-1946), who descended from a prominent Tidewater family and grew up in Petersburg. He built a successful career as a maritime lawyer in New York City. He was also a discerning collector of early 20th-century painting, sculpture and works on paper. Jones, who was a VMFA trustee, bequeathed the bulk of his collection to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Virginia.
The works have not been seen together since the late 1940s. Jones acquired most of his collection between 1924 and 1939. He purchased works from the best known figures of the era – Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Masson and Lipchitz – as well as works by artists who are less widely known today, including Marcel Gromaire, André Lhote and Jean Lurçat. Jones began donating works to VMFA in 1941, and, with his final bequest of paintings, sculptures and drawings six years later, VMFA moved to the forefront of American museums with collections of contemporary European work.
Jones left the majority of his prints to the University of Virginia. Among the exhibition’s 51 works will be Picasso’s “Woman with Kerchief” (1906), Matisse’s two portraits of “Lorette” (both 1917), a Cubist collage by Juan Gris, and a three-part folding screen by Lurçat. The exhibition was on view at three other Virginia venues during VMFA’s expansion construction.
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