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News from For immediate release: November 8, 2002 CONTACT: Ruta Smithson (609) 258-3763 Nineteenth-century Landscapes on View at Princeton University Art MuseumExhibition Dates: October 5, 2002, through January 12, 2003 PRINCETON – A selection of nineteenth-century European paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs from the museum's collection is now on view at the Princeton University Art Museum. The exhibition traces the rise of the landscape genre, the many forms it took, and artists who devoted their lives to rendering this subject matter. The title of the exhibition, “Earth’s Beauty Revealed: The Nineteenth-Century European Landscape,” is derived from a phrase of the British author John Ruskin (1819–1900), who described his first sight of the Swiss Alps in childhood as the "revelation of the beauty of the earth." Ruskin believed landscape painting to be the highest and noblest genre of the age and became the champion of the great British landscape artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), who is represented by several works in the exhibition. “Earth’s Beauty Revealed” comprises works in different techniques used to study or record a landscape, whether in a plein air oil sketch; drawing, in one case aided by a camera lucida; watercolor; or photograph. Also included are highly finished paintings prepared in the studio. The works on display include a painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot of Charles-François Daubigny in his boat, the Botin, from which he sketched the banks of the rivers of Northern France. Among the artists represented are pioneers of the Romantic landscape, including the Barbizon School painter Théodore Rousseau; Eugene Boudin, the painter of modern life on the Normandy beaches; the Impressionist artist Alfred Sisley; the little known German painter of panoramas Nikolas Meister; the draftsman, early photographer, and inventor of a process that bears his name, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre; the British pastoral master Samuel Palmer; and the photographers Edouard Baldus and William Henry Fox Talbot. A brochure and didactic labels have been prepared by Betsy Rosasco, associate curator of Later Western art; Victoria Reed, research associate; Andrew Hershberger, Graduate School Class of 2001; Peter Barberie, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art and Archaeology; Abigail Bagley-Young, Class of 2000; and Miya Tokumitsu, Class of 2003. “Earth's Beauty Revealed: The Nineteenth-Century European Landscape” is on view through January 12, 2003. On December 6 and 8 a gallery talk by Peter Barberie will address issues surrounding the extraordinary success of the nineteenth-century landscape.
“Cézanne in Focus: Watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection.” October 19, 2002, through January 12, 2003
Gallery Talk – Friday, December 6, 12:30 p.m., and Sunday, December 8, 3:00 p.m. |