Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills

    Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills

    Taking inspiration from Blake’s poem for its title, the exhibition Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape examines the tensions between nature and culture, country and city, that would play a decisive role in British art...
  • Transforming Nature: The Watercolors in Cézanne and the Modern

    Transforming Nature: The Watercolors in Cézanne and the Modern

    According to the French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, during Paul Cézanne’s later years it was not uncommon to discover watercolors he had discarded in the fields near Aix-en-Provence—scattered testimonials to the fine disregard the artist apparently displayed toward these sheets...
  • 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...