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New in the Galleries
Nsapo Axes: No Tools Here
Continuing through June 2, 2013
Raymond and Laura Wielgus Gallery of the Arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas, third floor
Metalsmiths of the Nsapo peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are known for creating elaborately worked iron and copper axes that were used as currency and symbols of prestige, rather than as tools. This installation displays six outstanding examples recently acquired by the museum.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: A Visiting Master Print
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor
Continuing through August 18, 2013
One of the originators of the Impressionist style, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was particularly noted for his appreciation of feminine beauty. He depicted his friends, family, and their children in scenes of domestic activity and repose. A favorite subject included two young girls pinning flowers on a hat. Renoir did several versions of this scene in a variety of media, including an important large-scale lithograph that is on temporary loan to the IU Art Museum for the summer. The installation will be complemented by several small prints by Renoir and two portraits of the artist by Pierre Bonnard and Jean-Louis Forain.
Breaking the Gilded Ceiling: Women Artists of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Continuing through August 25, 2013
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor
This installation features women artists—some former artist’s models, some wives and mothers, and some trailblazers—who worked in a variety of media. Included will be work by photographers Anna Atkins, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Laura Adams Armer, as well as prints and drawings by Mary Cassatt, Suzanne Valadon, Gwen John, and Käthe Kollwitz.
Presented in conjunction with Women’s History Month 2013 at Indiana University.
Reginald Heron: A Memorial
Continuing through September 1, 2013
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
This past December the Indiana University community lost a former faculty member, and the art world lost a pioneering photographer. Reginald “Reg” Heron joined the IU faculty in 1970 as the second professor of photography in what was then the IU Fine Arts Department (now the Hope School of Fine Arts). Heron started out studying electrical engineering before the writings of László Moholy-Nagy inspired him to switch fields and to attend the famed Institute of Design in Chicago, where he studied under Aaron Siskind. His technological background informed his exploration of applied sensitometry, the scientific study of light-sensitive materials. This installation features six of his stunning nocturnal street scenes taken in Greece.
Sam Gilliam: A Lyrical Abstractionist in Indiana
Continuing through September 15, 2013
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
Sam Gilliam pushes the boundaries of traditional artistic media, creating draped paintings without stretchers and unique sculptural prints. He also draws on a wide range of inspiration, from his African American heritage and abstract expressionism to the poetry of Pablo Neruda and jazz music. Although associated with the Color Field painters of Washington, D.C., Gilliam had a strong connection to this region of the country. This installation will feature several works produced at IU’s Echo Press and a miniature watercolor painting given by the artist to Bloomington’s Second Baptist Church in honor of his brother Clarence and his wife Frances, who were recently named by the City of Bloomington as a Black History Living Legends.
The Allure of Venus
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor
Continuing through October 27, 2013
Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality in Roman mythology, was a favorite theme in Western art from the Renaissance through the Neo-Classical period. This installation features eight works from the early sixteenth through the late eighteenth century including depictions of Venus riding on dolphins, pulling a thorn from her foot, in her boudoir, and with her consort Mars or son Cupid.
Special Installations
Three Remarkable Women: Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Margaret Chinnery, and Stéphanie de Genlis
Continuing through August 4, 2013
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor
This focus installation features Vigée Le Brun’s Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery (1803) and selected materials from the Lilly Library. The exhibition presents an unusually rich opportunity to use a single artwork as a lens for an interdisciplinary study of the history, politics, art, literature, and music of its time.
Tapa: Unwrapping Polynesian Barkcloth
April 26–August 30, 2013
Raymond and Laura Wielgus Gallery of the Arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas, third floor
This spring, students taking the course On Exhibit: The Pacific Islands have had the opportunity to create a small installation, as well as an online Web module focusing on Polynesian tapa cloth from the the permanent collection of the IU Art Museum. Tapa cloth is created throughout the Pacific Islands and is made from beating the inner bark of trees. |
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