WINSLOW HOMER
Joys of the Day

Through December 30th

Americans at work, school, and play are celebrated in many of Winslow Homer's best known and beloved scenes such as Snap the Whip, The Noon Recess, and Dad's Coming in this exhibition of 45 woodcut engravings.  This rare grouping of Harper's Weekly and Appleton Journal Illustrations demonstrates Homer's genius as a theatrical draughtsman.  Airy and nostalgic tableaus of men, women, and children on the land and sea, in the country and city, at day and night, are rendered in the grayish tones of the mid-nineteenth century pictorial press which nevertheless teem with an articulation of light that soon thereafter would become the domain of photography.  For the reopening of the new museum in 2005, the Cornell organized Winslow Homer Illustrating War which included 28 of the artist's important illustrations about the Civil War.  Likewise, Joys of the Day is drawn from the museum's permanent collection of 268 Winslow Homer tabloid illustrations acquired through the James and Suzanne Markel Fund.

RELATED COLLEGE AND PUBLIC EVENTS

The Cornell Fine Museum is proud to present two special evenings on the great WINSLOW HOMER.  Don't miss these!  Come early to see the exhibition!

 

Thursday, September 20th at 6:00 P.M. Lecture: "Americans at Play Here and Abroad: Winslow Homer in Harper's Weekly"  David Tatham, Professor Emeritus of American Art at Syracuse University, is author of six books, including Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press, the only comprehensive volume on Homer's magazine illustrations, as well as eighty scholarly articles and reviews concerning American art of the 19th and 20th centuries.  He is distinguished as an authority on Winslow Homer and will bring the topic of Homer's illustration campaigns with Harper's Weekly to life in a lecture given in the Jeanette Genius McKean Gallery.

Sunday, October 7th at 3:00 P.M. Film Premiere: "Winslow Homer: Society and Solitude" (2007, 105 mins.) followed by conversation with filmmaker Steven J. Ross Filmmaker Steve Ross has created a documentary that is visually, emotionally and intellectually rich by chronicling Homer's years with Harper's Weekly to his quiet life as the masterful, visual poet on Prouts Neck, Maine.  Released to rave reviews, CFAM joins the National Gallery of Art, the Nasher Museum at Duke, the Clark Institute at Williams College, and the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), among select museums, to screen — prior to television broadcast and general release — this momentous film about the life and art of Winslow Homer.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910), American
Waiting for a Bite, Harper's Weekly, 1874
Wood engraving on newsprint, 13¼ x 20½ inches
CFAM Collection at Rollins College

Winslow Homer (1836-1910), American
Gathering Berries Harper's Weekly, 1874
Wood engraving on newsprint, 13¼ x 20½ inches
CFAM Collection at Rollins College

Winslow Homer (1836-1910), American
The Noon Recess, Harper's Weekly, 1873
Wood engraving on newsprint, 13¼ x 20½ inches
CFAM Collection at Rollins College

Thomas Sully (1783-1872), American
Portrait of Lieutenant William Henry Korn, 1841
Oil on canvas
CFAM Collection at Rollins College

Unknown, American
Known as Portrait of a Girl with parrot, c.1790-1800
Oil on canvas
CFAM Collection at Rollins College

AMERICAN PORTRAITS
 

Through December 30th

The Cornell at Rollins possesses a noteworthy collection of American portraits, c. 1790-1860, that are shown as a group for the first time.  On view in the John C. Myers Family Gallery through December 20th, American Portraits typifies the genre as a means for the creation of the early American self.

Portraiture was the most popular type of painting in America from colonial times well into the nineteenth century.  With the rise of a mercantile class, commissioned portraits were not only status symbols for the sitters, but were also markers of individual accomplishment in keeping with the young nation's values of self-determination.

From the most successful portraitist of America's early national period, Gilbert Stuart, and his student, Thomas sully, to works by unidentified artists, the range of differences between European-trained styles and a naive type of American portraiture are presented in this exhibition of one dozen paintings.  American Portraits has been organized by Luanne McKinnon, Director, Cornell Fine Arts Museum.

If you thought American portraiture was not exciting, please mark your calendars to hear this lively scholar from the Dallas Museum of Art!

Thursday, October 18th at 6:00 P.M.
Lecture: Founding Faces: American Portraiture/American Identities

William Rudolph is the Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.  He received his Ph.D. in the history of art from Bryn Mawr College and also holds an M.A. in art history from the University of Virginia and  Post-Graduate Diploma in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.  At the Dallas Museum, he has organized the loan exhibition "Charles Sheeler's Power Series," (2006) and is developing "Thomas Sully: The Theatre of his World" (2009-10).  Dr. Rudolph's research interests include portraiture, regionalism and itinerancy, and art of the American South.  His book Vaudechamp in New Orleans, a study of the Franco-American portraitist Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp, was published by The Historic New Orleans Collection in 2007.

 SELECT

EUROPEAN & AMERICAN PAINTINGS

c. 1561-1915

Through December 30th

To honor the extraordinary donors to the Cornell Fine Arts Museum a broad chronological and stylistic range of paintings given by  Kenneth Curry, Samuel B. and Marion W. Lawrence, Marilyn and Michael Mennello, Louise Ashforth, Alastair Bradley Martin, John Russell Carty, Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Balink; the Myers, Hersloff, and Thomas families; the estates of Nettie Olin Barbour and Virginia Keep Clark, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, are on view in the Jeanette Genius McKean Gallery.

A rare grouping of three large-scale turn of the century paintings of living and mythic women including William Adolphe Bougereau's Tendre Propos, 1901; Sir John Lavery's Anna Pavlova as a Bacchante, 1910, and John White Alexander's Portrait of Annie Russell, c.1900 are on view along with other notable favorites from the permanent collection including Frederick Childe Hassam's Ironbound, 1896 and Franz de Paula Ferg's The Building of Noah's Ark, c. 1730.

Four Bloomsbury Group paintings by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Walter Sickert are also integrated into this sweeping installation of English, Dutch, Austrian, French, Italian, Flemish, and American paintings.

RELATED COLLEGE AND PUBLIC EVENT

Please join us to hear the new CFAM Curator of Academic Initiatives!

Thursday, November 8th at 6:00 P.M.
Lecture: Bloomsbury: The Public Face of a Private Group

Newly appointed Curator of Academic Initiatives, Matthew McLendon, comes to the Cornell with a background in art history and museum work.  Matthew received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.   His area of interest is the early-twentieth-century European avant-garde, especially the Italian Futurists.   While in London, McLendon worked as an educator at Tate Britain.  As Interim Curator of Adult Learning, he managed events surrounding the prestigious Turner Prize, and in the Department of Interpretation and Education he worked on the Art of Bloomsbury exhibit and presented Gallery Talks focusing on specific works within the Tate collection.

Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935), American
Ironbound, 1896
Oil on canvas
CFAM Collection at Rollins College
Gift of Laura and Sigurd Hersloff in memory of their father, Nils Hersloff

Duncan Grant (1885-1915), British
Still Life with Salt Glazed Pitcher, 1915
Oil on canvas
CFAM Collection at Rollins College
Bequest of Kenneth Curry, Ph.D.

Franz de Paula Ferg (1689-1740), Austrian
The Building of Noah's Ark, c.1730
Oil on canvas
CFAM Collection at Rollins College
Gift of Marjorie Myers Ginn, Francis B. Myers, II, John C. Myers, Jr., and Everette M. Myers in memory of John C. Myers, Sr.

Primordial Sea (Aggressor), 2007

Mixed media on paper

Plastic Fantastic, 2007

Mixed media on paper

Anoxic, 2007

Mixed media on paper

RACHEL SIMMONS: WONDERS
 

September 15 - December 30

This exhibition by Rollins College associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History, is comprised of four thematic installations.  Mixed media works created by fusing traditional printmaking and digital techniques with painting drawing, collage an embroidery are seen in the series "The Dead Sea," "Anoxia," and "Wonders (of the Sea)."  Shown alongside these two-dimensional pieces is Simmons' first video "Noise Pollution" which has been created as a collaborative interdisciplinary project.  This new body of work originated during Simmons' residencies in Vermont and Hawaii, and from a 2005 faculty research trip to the Galapagos islands.  Rachel Simmons' art is as diverse as nature's solutions within the evolutionary creation of the life forms in our vast marine ecosystem.

RELATED COLLEGE AND PUBLIC EVENTS

Tuesday, September 18th at 6:30 P.M.
Gallery Talk: "Opening the Wonder-Gates" by Rachel Simmons

Tuesday, September 25th at 6:30 P.M.
Gallery Talk: "The Oldest Living Things in the World" by photographer Rachel Sussman

Friday, September 28th at 6:30 P.M.
Lecture by Global Peace Film Festival special guest, Jan Cousteau of Earth Echo International

Tuesday, October 9th at 6:30 P.M.
Lecture: "Florida's Endangered Corals: Threats to Reef Health and Survival" by Kathryn Patterson Sutherland, Professor of Biology at Rollins College

Thursday, November 1st at 6:30 P.M.
Panel Discussion: "Noise Pollution: an Art/Science Project", a Rollins College interdisciplinary research project with faculty panelists (left to right) Tom Cook, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Dan Crozier, Department of Music, Thomas Moore, Department of Physics, and Rachel Simmons, Department of Art and Art History.