Exhibition: Old Masters of Amsterdam

Amsterdams Historisch Museum

Exhibition: Old Masters of Amsterdam

6 March–9 August 2009 Amsterdams Historisch Museum (AHM) (Amsterdam Historical Museum)

Old Masters of Amsterdam tells the fascinating story of the formation and growth of the rich collection of paintings owned by the city of Amsterdam. The leading art historian Arthur Wheelock wrote of the museum that it has “a fascinating collection, containing all sorts of paintings not to be found elsewhere.” The exhibition The visitor wanders in and suddenly steps into a great militia hall, the place where the civic guard gathered for meetings, parties and to impress invited friends and guests. On the wall are the large canvases on which are depicted generations of militia: proud and self-assured, the pillars of civic society. On the table is the chain of the ‘king of the guild’ and the drinking horn: richly decorated symbols that are also depicted on the paintings on the wall.

In the exhibition Old Masters of Amsterdam

Amsterdams Historisch Museum (AHM) (Amsterdam Historical Museum)

Old Masters of Amsterdam

6 maart t/m 9 augustus 2009

Met ruim 1000 schilderijen van vóór 1800 beschikt de stad Amsterdam over één van de rijkste verzamelingen Oude Meesters ter wereld. Tot de hoogtepunten in de tentoonstelling behoren schilderijen van bekende en zeker ook minder bekende namen als Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan van der Heyden en Willem van de Velde. De tentoonstelling vertelt het fascinerende verhaal van de totstandkoming en groei van deze rijke collectie. In de eerste zalen proeft de bezoeker de sfeer van de grote zaal in de schuttersdoelen en van de regentenkamer van het Leprozenhuis. Hier hingen oorspronkelijk de imposante groepsportretten, die bedoeld waren om indruk te maken op de bezoekers.

The Tyler Museum of Art, Scenes from the American West: The Phelan Collection

Ransom G. Holdredge. Sioux Camp in the Rocky Mountains

Scenes from the American West: The Phelan Collection
February 22–May 17, 2009

The Tyler Museum of Art offers a panoramic view of the American experience west of the Mississippi—as seen through the eyes of the people who witnessed it take shape—in its next major exhibition, Scenes from the American West: The Phelan Collection.
The exhibition, organized by the TMA, opens to the public Sunday, Feb. 22 and continues through May 17, 2009 in the Museum’s North Gallery.
Scenes from the American West showcases more than 60 artworks from the collection of Arthur J. Phelan, a native of Chevy Chase, Maryland, who began to stoke a lifelong fascination with the American frontier upon his first travels to the Western states in the 1950s. Since acquiring his first piece of American Western art in 1967, Phelan’s collection has grown into one of the best-known of its kind in the United States.
Frederic Remington, Albert Bierstadt, John James Audubon and Alfred Jacob Miller are among the icons of the genre represented in the exhibition, yet a unique theme of Phelan’s collection is its inclusion of artists whose names are perhaps lesser-known but played no less indelible a role in capturing eyewitness accounts of the people who shaped the American frontier—and the events they experienced during the nation’s westward expansion.

Ransom G. Holdredge. Sioux Camp in the Rocky Mountains, c. 1880. Oil on canvas, 42 x 69.” The Arthur J. Phelan Collection

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Exhibition: The Pre-Raphaelites (Stockholm National Museum)

Exhibition: The Pre-Raphaelites (Stockholm National Museum)

Isabella Millais

Exhibition: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. A secret group of artists formed in London in 1848 as a revolt to existing artistic ideals. The Pre-Raphaelites’ paintings shocked contemporary society and still fascinates today. Opening Thursday 26 February.
26 February 2009–24 May 2009

The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites shocked contemporary society and still fascinate today. The members of the group, which was active in England in the mid-19th century, turned against what they perceived as the insipid, artificial artistic ideals of the day, instead seeking earnestness and honesty in art. And indeed, in their depictions of contemporary England they instilled a social commitment that was as radical as it was strong. Many of their paintings also show historical scenes of love, passion, life and death. In style, their work is noted for its predominantly decorative idiom, making use of brilliant, clear colours and a stylised ideal of beauty. The border between dream and reality is frequently blurred.
The members of the group described themselves as Pre-Raphaelites since they took their artistic ideals from the art of the 15th century, i.e. from the period before the Renaissance painter, Raphael. The group’s most prominent members were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt.
The exhibition shows more than 200 works from this golden age of English art.

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