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Exhibition Preview | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

Exhibition Preview | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

Featuring forty-one works from four major print series, the exhibition is the first to focus on the vital role that literature played in the artist’s groundbreaking explorations of the print medium.
Hold: A Meditation on Black Aesthetics

Hold: A Meditation on Black Aesthetics

During the 1960s, black artists and intellectuals embraced the idea of a black aesthetic as an ideological alternative to Eurocentric notions of beauty and taste. Since then, black aesthetics has served more broadly as a site of convergence across the...
Making History Visible

Making History Visible

This fall, as part of a rich campus-wide initiative examining the University’s historic links to the institution of slavery, the Museum is presenting a broad range of opportunities to explore the ways in which artists represent and engage with American...
Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery across the Black Atlantic

Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery across the Black Atlantic

How should our institutions represent slavery in their exhibitions and collections? Anna Arabindan-Kesson, assistant professor in the departments of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, investigated this question this past spring together with eight undergraduate students in her new...
The Art and Life of Solomon Nunes Carvalho

The Art and Life of Solomon Nunes Carvalho

The art and life of Solomon Nunes Carvalho, one of the first American-born Jewish artists, speak to the extraordinary and unaccustomed degree of freedom available to Jews in antebellum America. His eleven paintings and photographs on view in By Dawn’s...
The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

The American Arts and Crafts movement emerged full force in the years before and after 1900, at a time when diametrically opposed views of the future clashed. Many Americans believed in the power of the machine, the growth of capitalism,...
Now on View: Recently Acquired Early Work by Elizabeth Catlett

Now on View: Recently Acquired Early Work by Elizabeth Catlett

The Museum has acquired an important early work by the renowned African American artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012), the fruit of a collaboration with Princeton University’s Department of Art and Archaeology that continues to strengthen Princeton’s art collections.
Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

The exhibition includes more than fifty examples of their ceramics, as well as an equally large array of embroidered table runners and wall hangings, chased brass and silver metal wares, jewelry.
By Dawn's Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

By Dawn's Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

Exhibition features some of the earliest novels, poems, religious works, paintings, photographs, newspapers, maps, and scientific treatises produced by Jews in the United States.
Fitz Henry Lane’s Ship in Fog, Gloucester Harbor

Fitz Henry Lane’s Ship in Fog, Gloucester Harbor

A recent acquisition, Ship in Fog, Gloucester Harbor by Fitz Henry Lane, is an archetype of Luminism, a style characterized by a preoccupation with light and atmosphere that flourished among a group of American painters between 1850 and 1875.