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The British Passion for Landscape

The British Passion for Landscape

Currently on view in Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape are scenes of the agricultural, pastoral, and wild regions of the British Isles together with views of the industrial and mining operations that launched the...
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...
Ursula von Rydingsvard and Others: Materials and Manipulations

Ursula von Rydingsvard and Others: Materials and Manipulations

For decades, the sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard has explored organic and inorganic materials, the familiar and the unfamiliar. The works by von Rydingsvard on view illustrate a concern for the aesthetic potential and emotional power of materials that is shared...
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.
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.
Collecting Contemporary, 1960-2015: Selections from the Schorr Collection

Collecting Contemporary, 1960-2015: Selections from the Schorr Collection

Collecting Contemporary, 1960–2015: Selections from the Schorr Collection features paintings, drawings, and photographs acquired by Lenore and Herbert Schorr, Graduate School Class of 1963, over the last forty-five years. Created by a range of pioneering artists, these works serve as...
Painting on Paper: American Watercolors at Princeton

Painting on Paper: American Watercolors at Princeton

This summer, the Art Museum presents its first-ever exhibition devoted solely to American watercolors. Painting on Paper comprises highlights from the Museum’s rich collection, supplemented by loans from the University’s Graphic Arts, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Western Americana collections...
Kongo across the Waters

Kongo across the Waters

Kongo across the Waters explores the vibrant culture of Kongo peoples from West Central Africa and the transmission and enduring influence of that culture in the Americas.