The Hood Museum of Art presents Embracing Elegance: American Art from the Huber Family Collection on view June 11 through September 4, 2011.
Jane Peterson, The Dry Dock, c. 1915, opaque watercolor and charcoal on brown paper. Huber family collection
This exhibition features over thirty examples of American impressionist and realist pastels, drawings, and paintings by some of the leading artists active at the turn of the twentieth century, including Cecilia Beaux, Frank W. Benson, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Robert Henri, Lila Cabot Perry, John Singer Sargent, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, John Henry Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir. Collected over twenty-five years by Jack Huber, Dartmouth Class of 1963, and his wife, Russell, these works reveal a range of responses to the dramatic cultural and artistic developments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—from the brilliant colors and broad handling of the impressionists, to the grit and verve of the urban realists. The predominant aesthetic in this collection, however, is the period taste for refinement and tranquility as seen in serene landscapes, poetic still lifes, and especially, images of elegant women in repose.
Organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, and presented at the Hood through the generous support of the Leon C. 1927, Charles L. 1955, and Andrew J. 1984 Greenebaum Fund, the Philip Fowler 1927 Memorial Fund, and the William Chase Grant 1919 Memorial Fund.
The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College is a teaching museum dedicated to bringing visual arts, school programs, lectures, gallery talks, symposia, and artist to thousands of visitors from the community and beyond. The 2010 exhibitions place the permanent collections in the spotlight. Their global perspective, range, and variety respond to our role as a museum for teaching and learning.
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