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Cézanne and the Modern

Cézanne and the Modern

This fall, visitors to the Princeton University Art Museum have the opportunity to view remarkable works from the Pearlman Collection by Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Édouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaïm Soutine, and—especially—Paul Cézanne. The works return to Princeton,...
Henry Pearlman | The Collector

Henry Pearlman | The Collector

The story of Henry Pearlman’s collection is a distinctly American one: a rags-to-riches tale of a self-made businessman who pursued his passion for modern art alongside other lifelong passions, including baseball and chess.
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...
Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print, Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print, Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Although most recognized for his celebrated paintings—including The Scream (1893)—Edvard Munch was among the most innovative printmakers of the modern era. His mastery of a broad variety of print media paralleled his rapid development as a painter in the last...
Pearlman Collection Embarks on International Tour

Pearlman Collection Embarks on International Tour

The Impressionist and early modern works from the Pearlman Collection that are usually on view in the galleries of 19th- and early 20th-century art are currently traveling in a five-venue international tour entitled Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European...
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation Launches Website

The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation Launches Website

The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation has launched a new website featuring works in the Foundation's collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting and sculpture, which is on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum. An international tour of the...
The Science of Art: Technical Analysis Leads to New Discoveries

The Science of Art: Technical Analysis Leads to New Discoveries

Looking toward a five-venue tour for the works in the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection—and the publication of an accompanying exhibition catalogue—the collection’s diverse group of sculptures was recently examined. In conducting such studies, conservators assess the overall stability of...
Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

Bringing together objects as diverse as paintings, marble and bronze sculpture, cameos, drawings, books, and prints, Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe tells the stories of European perceptions of Africa in the Renaissance, of the Africans who came to...

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