Featured Exhibition
Matisse as Printmaker
October 25, 2009–January 3, 2010
FREE
Discover Matisse's brilliance and versatility as a printmaker through nearly 200 rarely shown prints.
From the artist's earliest prints in 1900 to the last in 1951, Matisse as Printmaker follows the chronology of the artist's career with examples of every printmaking technique he used-etchings, monotypes, lithographs, linocuts, aquatints, and color prints. A selection of related paintings, sculpture, drawings, and books such as Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé and Jazz reveal how Matisse used prints to develop his visual ideas.
This comprehensive exhibition culminates with several striking aquatints from 1948. Many of these vivid prints are from a promised gift to the BMA from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation and are being shown in Baltimore for the first time.
A full color illustrated catalog published by the American Federation of the Arts includes an essay by BMA Curator Jay McKean Fisher exploring Matisse's use of printmaking throughout his career. Available at The BMA Shop for $25. BMA Members receive a 10% discount!
Matisse as Printmaker is curated by Jay Fisher, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs.
This presentation unites works drawn from the collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art with Matisse as Printmaker: Works from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.
Following its presentation in Baltimore, the combined AFA and BMA exhibition travels to the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida (February 4-April 18, 2010). The AFA exhibition travels to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin (May 23- August 1, 2010) and Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton in Canada (October 29, 2010-February 13, 2011).
Learn more about Matisse in the BMA's world-renowned Cone Collection. Enjoy the Matisse for Kids online activity!
Generously sponsored at the BMA by
Additional support provided by the International Fine Print Dealers Association.
Artful Conversations
Contemporary Printmakers on Matisse
Sunday, November 15, 3–4 p.m.
BMA Meyerhoff Auditorium | FREE
Join Curator Jay Fisher; Brian Garner, artist and adjunct professor, Maryland Institute College of Art; Charles Ritchie, artist and National Gallery of Art Curator of Modern Prints and Drawings; and Renee Stout, inaugural artist-in-residence at The Johns Hopkins University Center for Africana Studies, as they discuss the exhibition and Matisse’s printmaking oeuvre. Space is limited; please arrive early. For more information call 443-573-1832 or e-mail programs@artbma.org
Third Thursday Curatorial Tour
Thursday, November 19, 1 p.m.
Explore Matisse as Printmaker with Jay Fisher. Space is limited. For reservations, call 443-573-1832.
Henri Matisse. Nadia with a Serious Expression. 1948. Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. ©2009 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy American Federation of Arts.
