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Collecting Art of the Maya

Collecting Art of the Maya

Acquiring new works of art for the Museum is both an exhilarating and a challenging task. For a university art museum, the degree to which an object advances the teaching mission is important, but high artistic quality remains the principal...
Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds

Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds

Though Lee Bontecou is best known for her three-dimensional work, drawing has always been an equally important component of her artistic practice. Calling her drawings “worldscapes,” Bontecou has produced an incredible body of work that propels us into fantastic spaces...
Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell, Class of 1960

Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell, Class of 1960

The years between 1952 and 1990 were one of the most fertile periods in the history of abstract painting. Rothko to Richter provides an idiosyncratic window into a moment of remarkable creative ferment, when abstraction was being hotly contested. At...
Works on Paper Study Room Refurbished

Works on Paper Study Room Refurbished

The Art Museum has recently refurbished its seminar room dedicated to the study of prints and drawings as the Works on Paper Study Room. For the first time, the room will be open to the public through organized tours on...
Rothko to Richter: Special Reunions Weekend Programming

Rothko to Richter: Special Reunions Weekend Programming

This year, the Museum will host special programming during Reunions weekend, including a regional beer tasting, book signing, and conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning author and art critic Mark Stevens ’73.
New on View: In the Garden

New on View: In the Garden

I n the Garden seeks to demonstrate the rich connections gardens have with nature, culture, and art. Some paintings portray gatherings set in gardens; others depict open landscapes that can be read as gardens based on the activities they host;...
New on View: Photography at Princeton

New on View: Photography at Princeton

The photography collection serves the Museum's educational ambitions while capitalizing on one of its greatest abilities: the capacity to tell an effective and nuanced history of photography, from its very beginnings in the early nineteenth century to contemporary efforts. The...
New on View: Contemporary Art

New on View: Contemporary Art

This spring, the Museum is highlighting work by some of the most important artists working today. Most were created in the last fifteen years, and many are recent acquisitions that arrived at the Museum through either purchase or gift. The...
Guercino Caricatures

Guercino Caricatures

Guercino’s drawings, rendered with spare expressive lines, reveal the artist’s extraordinary ability to observe and capture on paper both the physical deformities and the psychological states of mind of many of his contemporaries.
Recent Acquisition: Crucifixion by Jacopo del Casentino

Recent Acquisition: Crucifixion by Jacopo del Casentino

The Museum recently acquired a Crucifixion by the fourteenth-century Florentine painter Jacopo del Casentino and a Virgin and Child, dated around 1500, by the Northern painter known as the Master of the Magdalen Legend. The paintings once belonged to Allan...