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Diego Rivera: the Cubist Portraits, 1913–1917 1 From the Director Dear Meadows Museum Members and Friends, These are indeed exciting times at the Meadows. Construction is under way on the much-anticipated renovation of the Museum’s plaza and staircase. There will soon be even more welcoming areas to congregate and enjoy our collection of modern sculpture amid shady trees and green grass. The installation of a new terrace overlooking Santiago Calatrava’s Wave will invite visitors to contemplate this monumental work as never before (see page 10). Please bear with us through this phase of growth; the transformation of the Museum’s exterior spaces is well worth the wait and, as members, you will be the first to know about the opening events. This fall, we are pleased to present From Manet to Miró: Modern Drawings from the Abelló Collection in the Jake and Nancy Hamon Galleries. Organized by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Spain and the Meadows Museum, this exhibition includes some of the best drawings from the collection of Juan Abelló, including examples by such modern masters as Goya, Degas, Van Gogh, Schiele, Klimt and Dalí. From Manet to Miró marks the first time an exhibition devoted to this prominent Spanish private collection will be presented in the United States (see page 2). Complementing this exhibition is an installation of master drawings from the Meadows Museum’s permanent collection, also featured in our upstairs spaces (see page 6). Please join us for the exclusive members’ opening on September 12. We are also celebrating two important, albeit very different, anniversaries this fall. The first is the 50th anniversary of the invention of the microchip by the remarkable Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby, which we are commemorating with an exhibition of his photography. The second is the 200th anniversary of an uprising of the Spanish people against Napoleon in 1808, sparking Spain’s War of Independence. Goya’s well-known and moving documentation of the conflict in his print series titled The Disasters of War, along with a rarely exhibited volume of engravings by Brambilla and Gálvez illustrating the Ruins of Zaragoza after a devastating siege by French troops, will be on view in our downstairs galleries (see page 8). When visiting the Meadows please also be sure to stop and see our latest acquisition, a set of 29 miniatures depicting members of the family and court of Spain’s King Charles IV. Most of these fine works, the first of their kind ever to be accessioned into the Meadows collection, were created by Francisca Meléndez, a highly regarded member of a well-known dynasty of artists active in Spain throughout the 18th century (see page 18). I am also pleased to highlight the Museum’s ongoing scholarship and permanent collection research projects. Over the last four years we have been documenting all of the Museum’s paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints with digital photography. This enormous task is about to be finalized and will bring us a step closer to our goal of making our entire collection available to broader audiences on our website. This photography is part of an ongoing project to publish an in-depth raisonné catalogue of Meadows holdings, which has been tentatively scheduled for publication in 2012. All these exhibitions are enriched by ample and stimulating educational programming, including lectures by prominent scholars, gallery talks, and workshops (see page 20). We hope you will enjoy these unique opportunities. Also, as of this fall, the Meadows Museum has wireless internet access throughout the building. Finally, I am pleased to announce that our previous events manager, Catherine Baetz, will now be heading the membership office as its new manager. The events position is now being filled by Marin Fiske, who started working at the Museum in June. I hope that you take full advantage of your membership, and, as always, I am thankful for your ongoing support of the institution. See you at the Meadows! Mark A. Roglán, Ph.D. Director, Meadows Museum Adjunct Associate Professor of Art History 2 |CURRENT EXHIBITIONS September 14–December 2, 2008 From Manet to Miró: Modern Drawings from the Abelló Collection his special exhibition features 64 drawings by some of Tthe most important artists of the last two centuries, including Manet, Degas, Dalí and Miró. The drawings are from the extensive holdings of one of Spain’s most important private collections, that of Juan Abelló and his wife, Anna Gamazo. The Meadows exhibition will mark the first time the Abelló collection has been shown in the United States. For centuries, drawing was a medium used for and seen as preparatory work. Sketches from life provided sources of inspiration for a painter to elaborate upon, while compositional studies were used to determine the overall arrangement of a work. Drawing was the scaffolding that supported a work at its genesis and while in progress, a structure that could later be “dismantled” or hidden. Even with the birth of modern art and its conscious distaste for and departure from academic traditions, drawing’s preparatory function did not disappear; artists continued to draw in order to record or outline their ideas before executing them. Simultaneously, drawing as a medium began to command greater esteem, earning respect as an independent artistic medium. The appreciation of drawing as an art form in itself likewise fueled the development of a wide range of techniques and styles. The selection of works featured in From Manet to Miró spans the history of modern and contemporary drawing, starting with Goya and ending with Lucien Freud. The exhibition is particularly strong in its focus on the last third of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, covering the epic period of avant-garde movements from roughly Post-Impressionism to Surrealism. In addition, Spanish artists from this period are well-represented in the exhibition. Many of them, including Juan Gris, Miró, Julio González, Dalí and Óscar Domínguez, achieved international renown; others, though perhaps not of such international standing, were undoubtedly cosmopolitan in their outlook, including Iturrino, Gargallo, Manolo Francisco de Goya Hugué and María Blanchard. The artists Joaquín Torres Bust Portrait of Josefa Bayeu, 1805 García and the Cuban Wifredo Lam also are featured in Pencil on paper Photography courtesy The Abelló Collection the exhibition and, although not of Spanish birth, they Photographer: José Loren established strong artistic ties with the country. FROM MANET TO MIRÓ| 3 As the title of this exhibition suggests, Abelló’s holdings are particularly strong in the work of the French Impressionists, with drawings by Manet, Degas (including a splendid pastel of a woman drying herself after a bath), Cassatt, Pissarro and Renoir. Although the pioneers of this movement left tradition behind with their broken brushstrokes, depictions of everyday life and careful rendering of light with paint, most had still undertaken rigorous academic training and were excellent draughtsmen; they were equally skilled with pencil and brush, paper and canvas. This wide-ranging talent is also evident in the exhibition through the great pioneers of 20th-century art, beginning with the Post-Impressionists Gauguin and Van Gogh, and moving forward to include Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Klimt, Schiele, Matisse and Van Dongen. A testament to artistic versatility, Van Gogh’s pencil and black chalk drawing titled Head of a Peasant Woman is a particularly beautiful and empathetic display of the artist’s skill as a draughtsman and in a technique that differs significantly from his thick, energetically swirling paintings. Meanwhile the delicately drawn fragile female nudes of Klimt, Schiele, Matisse and Modigliani offer a glimpse of the confrontational abstraction to come with modern art as the 20th century progressed. Vincent van Gogh Joan Miró Head of a Peasant Woman, 1884 Homage to Pollock, 1978 Pencil, conté crayon and black chalk on paper Mixed media on paper Photography courtesy The Abelló Collection Photography courtesy The Abelló Collection Photographer: José Loren Photographer: José Loren © 2008 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 4 |CURRENT EXHIBITIONS With the aforementioned outstanding group of names, the exhibition encourages visitors to appreciate principal avant-garde movements such as Cubism, Expressionism and Abstraction in a different way. A series of drawings by great sculptors (Maillol, Brancusi, González, Moore and Giacometti) reveal that, as Degas claimed, drawing is not form but the way of seeing form. From Manet to Miró is in keeping with the Meadows Museum’s commitment to fostering visitors’ appreciation of varied media, including works on paper and drawing, as exemplified by the 2003 exhibition Spanish Master Drawings from Dutch Collections (1500–1900), which featured works by Ribera, Murillo and Goya, among others. That exhibition, organized by the Boijmans- Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and the Meadows Museum, set a standard for fruitful international collaborations, of which the present exhibition is a result. Through the installation of intimate works by modern masters, often featuring subjects rarely seen in the artists’ paintings, the visitor is invited to meet familiar figures with new eyes and connect to the artists’ personal rather than public or commercial endeavors, their training, skill, versatility, spontaneity and creative process. From Manet to Miró offers a synthesized but clear summary of the richness and complexity of modern art. This exhibition was organized by the Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza, the Meadows Museum, and the Abelló Collection and has been brought to Dallas by a generous gift from The Meadows Foundation. FROM MANET TO MIRÓ| 5 Related Programs FEATURED LECTURES In the Dr. Bob Smith Auditorium. September 13, 3:00 p.m. From Manet to Miró: Modern Drawings from the Abelló Collection Dr. Guillermo Solana Chief Curator, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Details on page 20 September 25, 6:00 p.m.
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