PHOTOGRAPHING the CITY the Major Themes Include Transportation, Commerce, Disaster, Wallis Simpson, Was Photographing the City and Community
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January, February, March 2013 PHOTOGRAPHING THE CITY The major themes include transportation, commerce, disaster, Wallis Simpson, was Photographing the City and community. Roads, rail, bridges, and waterways are only 33 at the time Bogies & Stogies Opening February 9 essential to urban life, for example, moving both people and and loved to golf. He Director’s Welcome goods, as indicated by the photograph by Clark Blickensderfer, dressed as a golfer, Golf Tournament Dear Friends: This exhibition explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century reproduced on the cover. This is not an east coast metropolis, or not as a prince, for his Renaissance Vinoy Resort and photographers responded to cities and towns, presented and even Chicago or Kansas City, but Denver. portrait. Sir Henry Golf Club With the joyous holiday season upon preserved their history, and influenced their perception by the Raeburn’s portraits November 5 us, the front of the Museum of Fine public. Among the artists represented are Berenice Abbott, The image by an unknown documentary photographer or in the exhibition will Arts is illuminated with seasonal Walker Evans, Aaron Siskind, Weegee, and Garry Winogrand. photojournalist of a Boston nightclub fire is one of dozens bring to mind his The Museum thanks the lighting, made possible by the capturing this horrific event in which hundreds lost their lives. impressive painting in following for making this benefit generosity of the Frank E. Duckwall Several images are part of the exhibition. Photographs once the MFA collection, on such a success: Foundation. Inside, our magnificent collection joins again contributed to societal change. Numerous codes to protect view in The Focardi exciting exhibitions in welcoming members and visitors. citizens in public places were enacted after this tragedy. Family Gallery. Presenting Sponsor: The Art of Golf fascinates with the historic and artistic dimension of the sport. For visitors of all ages, MiniARTure Berenice Abbott pictured the geometry, architecture, and Many works pay Golf at the MFA beckons on the front lawn. Five clever modernism of the city. Aaron Siskind looked eloquently at tribute to the dashing designs by area artists and architects test your putting the lives of African Americans, primarily in Harlem. His Robert Tyre “Bobby” skills. It’s a lot harder than it looks. photographs reflect his admiration. Garry Winogrand and the Jones Jr. (1902-1971), Platinum Sponsors: city are forever intertwined. His images convey the energy, one of the greatest The new year will also feature a ground-breaking rhythms, and unpredictability of the street. golfers of all time. retrospective of the work of American master of the figure Andy Warhol and Philip Pearlstein. People, Places, Things celebrates his intense Photographing the City was developed by graduate students at Larry Rivers focused investigation of the world and the human body. We will the University of South Florida in a fall seminar. Katherine on two more greats also present Photographing the City. The images, primarily Bussard, Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute and rivals, Jack from The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin of Chicago, was the instructor. She was the Eminent Guest Nicklaus and Arnold Collection, were selected by USF graduate students. Scholar, Kennedy Family Artists-in-Residence Endowment. Palmer. There are also early twentieth- Putting Contest: TJM Properties All these activities mark the MFA’s engagement with and Half of the classes were taught at the Museum, and many century paintings of commitment to our community – a relationship made of the images are drawn from The Ludmila Dandrew and women taking up the Signage: CBS Outdoor and OAI possible by you, our members. We are enormously grateful Chitranee Drapkin Collection, now numbering more than game and photographs Hole Sponsors: Brown & Brown for your commitment, support, and encouragement. 14,000 works. The students’ admirable research is now of African-American Insurance, Carlton Fields, Eagle available to the Museum and its audience and has already athletes, including Datagistics, EMCOR Group, Sincerely, provided new insights into this important collection. boxer Joe Louis, and Utopic Software who also golfed and Cigars: Macanudo Cigars supported the careers Hole in One: Dimmitt Cadillac The Art of Golf of other pioneers. Awards Banquet Sponsors: Kent Lydecker Through February 17 And what would a Director golf exhibition be Darren Diaz and Cortney Taylor This unique exhibition reveals the history and tradition of golf, but it will also appeal to those who have no interest in the game. The galleries are full of stunning works by such major artists as Rembrandt, Childe Hassam, George Bellows, Norman Rockwell, and Andy Warhol, among others. Even Snoopy hits the greens. Charles Schulz’s original Peanuts drawings, in addition to choice New Yorker cartoons, are more highlights. Organized by the High Museum of Art and the National Galleries of Scotland, The Art of Golf takes us back in time and forward to the present day. Kolf, a forerunner of golf, was played on the ice, and The Art of Golf features striking seventeenth- century Dutch paintings by such masters of the winter landscape Unknown American Photographer as Hendrick Avercamp and Aert van der Neer. Rembrandt’s The Streets of Old New York (1920s) famous etching, The Ringball Player (1654), captures a related Toned gelatin silver print game. Gift of Dr. Robert L. and Chitranee Drapkin from The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection The centerpiece of the exhibition is Charles Lees’ The Golfers (1847), the Mona Lisa of golf paintings. Reproductions of this work hang in clubhouses around the world, but it has never On the cover: before traveled to the United States. It depicts an early game Clark Blickensderfer (American, 1882-1962) played on the Old Course at The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of Arteries of Industry (detail), 1920 St. Andrews in Scotland. Gelatin silver print Gift of Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew from The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection The portraits are exceptional and often large-scale. Sir William Museum Photographs: Thomas U. Gessler Orpen’s The Prince of Wales (1927) has never before left St. Andrews. Edward VIII, who later abdicated the throne to marry The Museum celebrated the holidays with warm, beautiful lighting, made possible by a gift from the Frank E. Duckwall Foundation. 2 3 Consulting Curator Catherine Lewis (left) and Managing Curator Julia Forbes of the High Museum of Art introduced The Art of Golf in a superlative lecture on November 4. They gathered with Director Kent Lydecker for the members’ opening which followed. without Tiger Woods, here captured by John Mummert in an ecstatic moment of The benefit golf tournament earned new friends for the Museum. The participants here pose in the style of Charles Lees’ The Golfers (1847). victory? Golf is not only a grand game with a fascinating history, but it has also inspired watercolors focusing on army life and the tropical landscape and stunning works in a wide range of meda. Philip Pearlstein’s later served in Italy, designing signs and diagrams and drawing The Art of Golf hits a hole in one. People, Places, Things symbols for maps. March 2-June 16 After graduating from college, Pearlstein set off for New York The Art of Golf Sponsors with Warhol. They shared several roach-infested apartments, th and Underwriters As he approaches his 90 birthday in 2014, Philip Pearlstein before Pearlstein married Dorothy Cantor and formed a new remains as creative, vital, and iconoclastic as ever. He is household. Pearlstein completed an MA in art history at The especially known for his large-scale nudes posed in the studio, The Museum expresses deep Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and taught at the but he has also painted extraordinary gratitude to the following for portraits, landscapes, and historic helping bring this exhibition to the monuments. People, Places, Things is community: the most comprehensive retrospective Presenting Sponsor: to date and features more than 60 paintings, drawings, and prints. Premier Sponsor: Many have never before been seen by the public or outside of New York. Distinguished independent curator Individual Sponsor: Patterson Sims has developed the Arlene Fillinger Rothman exhibition with the full participation Media Sponsor: of the artist and the Betty Cunningham Gallery in New York. Official Host Hotel: Merry-Go-Round (1940), the earliest work in this retrospective, won the national Scholastic Art Award and was reproduced in Time magazine. Pearlstein continued at Carnegie Dr. Edward and Mrs. Margaret Tech (now Carnegie Mellon Amley University) in his native Pittsburgh, Bogies & Stogies Golf Tournament where he met Andy Warhol (then Committee Warhola). His brilliant painting Dimmitt Automotive Group Superman (1952), from the Museum Franklin Templeton Investments of Modern Art, even shows him to be Jabil Circuit Inc. a forerunner of Pop. Polywogs Wayman Adams (American, 1883-1959) Mrs. Mary L. Shuh Bobby Jones (1926) Other early works were created in Tampa Bay Lightning Oil on canvas Florida, where he was first stationed Philip Pearlstein (American, born 1924) U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Courtesy of the Atlanta Athletic Club, John’s Creek in the army near Jacksonville during Scott Burton (1975) Wealth Management World War II. He produced a series of Oil on canvas Collection of The Greene Family, Philadelphia 4 5 Monday Art Bites Members’ Opening Philip Pearlstein’s People, Places, Things Education Second Monday of the month, 1 p.m. Friday, March 1, 6-8 p.m. Free with Museum admission. Be one of the first to see this impressive retrospective. Follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, and visit our website Sample treasures from the collection in these 30-minute talks. RSVP: [email protected] or 727.896.2667, ext. 210 for updates on educational programs. Support is provided in part by the The Stuart Society, the MFA Education Committee, The Then stay for the 2 p.m.