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Before and After Pictures: FSA Photographs and the New Deal
Gallery of Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
Through March 2010
The upcoming 75th anniversary of the Farm Security Administration (1935–1944) offers an opportunity to showcase a small selection of works from the IU Art Museum’s holding of over 800 Depression-era photographs. These pictures reflect the dual purpose of the FSA’s photographic project: to document the lives of those less fortunate (particularly in rural America) and then to show how well the New Deal’s economic programs were working. For more images from the collection visit our on-line module. Also visit the related exhibition in the School of Fine Arts Library Foyer: “We introduced Americans to America”: Books on FSA Photographers from the Fine Arts Library Collections, on view from October 3 to November 1, 2009, presented in conjunction with IU Archives and Special Collections Month.
Forbearance by John Himmelfarb: A Promised Gift to the IU Art Museum
Gallery of the Art of the Western World,
Doris Steinmetz Kellett Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
Continuing through Spring 2010
Completed in January 2009, this important painting by Chicago-based painter, sculptor, and printmaker John Himmelfarb is a promised gift to the IU Art Museum. (See cover story for more information.) Himmelfarb’s large color intaglio print Serena Lane Meeting will also be on display after December 1.
Modernist Soundscapes
Continuing through Fall 2009
Gallery of Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Gallery of Twentieth-century Art, first floor
New music forms—such as ragtime, jazz, and atonalism in classical music—as well as the inventions of the phonograph and radio greatly changed the “soundscape” of the early twentieth century. Modern artists, such as Vassily Kandinsky, Charles Burchfield, and Claude Flight, began experimenting with visual abstraction as a means of representing the concept of sound. While their approaches differed, each saw sound/music as a source of artistic inspiration.
Modern Japanese Ceramics
Gallery of the Art of Asia and the Ancient Western World, second floor
The modern Japanese ceramics featured in this new gallery installation are bold, dynamic, and diverse. Some potters revived and refreshed traditional forms, while others experimented with new techniques.
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