Exhibition Releases
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Bonnard & Vuillard
April 23 – August 10, 2008
The BMA presents this luminous two-gallery exhibition of works by Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard—two modern masters whose experimental work inspired artists from Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to Henri Matisse.
The exhibition presents four paintings, three drawings, and over 30 lithographs, etchings, posters, and illustrated books drawn from the BMA’s outstanding collection that showcase the change in style for both artists as they progressed through their artistic careers.
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Front Room: Notes on Monumentality
February 27 – May 25, 2008
The Front Room series at The Baltimore Museum of Art continues with an exhibition focusing on monuments and monumentality. Front Room: Notes on Monumentality reconsiders historic and contemporary conceptions of the monument and monumentality through the presentation of more than 40 photographs, prints, drawings, paintings, video, and sculpture.
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Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900–1960
March 16 – June 8, 2008
This exhibition features more than 150 rarely shown vintage prints by some of the world's best-known European and American artists. Iconic images by Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and others showcase the impressive range and depth of the BMA’s photography collection while illuminating some of the most important achievements in the history of the medium.
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Meditations on African Art: Pattern
March 12 – August 17, 2008
The third and final installation in the BMA’s Meditations on African Art series exploring light, color, and pattern in the BMA’s distinguished African collection, Meditations on African Art: Pattern, features more than 70 diverse works that define the shape and surface of African art. Dramatic textiles, whimsical adinkra dye stamps, delicately carved ivories, boldly painted shields, and figurative works show the role of pattern and how it defines the shape and surface of African works of art by proclaiming the distinctive styles of individual men, women, and cultures.
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Printed Sculpture/Sculpted Prints
November 14, 2007 – March 30, 2008
The BMA’s outstanding print collection served as the inspiration for a group of students from The Johns Hopkins University to explore how sculpture was represented in European prints from the mid-16th through early 19th centuries. The results of their work is an exhibition that reveals how printmakers imbued two-dimensional works with as much grandeur as their three-dimensional counterparts.
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Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
October 28, 2007 – February 3, 2008
The Baltimore Museum of Art is the last stop on the national tour for Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, the first major exhibition of Henri Matisse’s sculpture in the U.S. in nearly 40 years. This widely acclaimed exhibition brings together more than 160 sculptures, paintings, and drawings from museums and private collections around the world to reveal for the first time how the insights Matisse gained in one medium led to innovations in another.
Press Release | Programs & Events Information | Matisse Sculpture Facts | Color Sheet | Installation Photos
Rodin: Expression & Influence
August 1, 2007 – April 6, 2008
The Modern Masters Series at the BMA continues with this intimate one-gallery exhibition exploring the sculptural legacy of Auguste Rodin through nearly 30 works by the artist and his contemporaries. Considered the most popular sculptor of the early 20th century, Rodin inspired a generation of artists from Edgar Degas to Henri Matisse.
Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape
February 11 – May 13, 2007
The Baltimore Museum of Art has organized the first major exhibition to explore Camille Pissarro’s transformation from a traditional landscape painter to a daring pioneer of Impressionism. Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape, brings together 45 of the artist’s most beautiful and innovative canvases from major museums and private collections around the world to focus on a pivotal decade of his career, 1864–1874. During this brief yet intense period, Pissarro’s experimental techniques and vision laid the groundwork for an entire generation of painters.
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