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9/7/2003

Visages & Visions

National Academy of Design, New York

American art of the Ninetheeth and Twentieth Centuries

Drawn from the rich permanent collection of the National Academy of Design, Visages and Visions: American Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries serves as a virtual who's who of American art. Including over 50 works from 1824 to the present, this exhibition provides a varied overview of many of the more important movements in the history of American art. In particular, the show outlines the history of the National Academy of Design and its artist members. Included are famed Hudson river school painters Albert Bierstasdt, Frederic E. Church and Asher Durand, American social realist Reginald Marsh and portraits or self-portraits by everyone from Thomas Eakins to Philip Pearlstein with abstractions by Gregory Amenoff and Robert Blackburn and figured works by Cecilia Beaux and Audrey Ushenko.

A major highlight of the exhibition is a 1908 portrait of artist Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent. Recently placed on long term loan by Boit's decedents, this portrait features the father of the four girls who are the subject of Sargent's masterpiece, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Painted at the height of Sargent's career, this work is a tribute to the friendship shared by the artist and his sitter, a relationship that spanned three decades. Because it has been in a private collection since its inception, the work has rarely been exhibited and the Academy, which owns one of the largest collections of portraits of artists in this country, is pleased to be able to exhibit it with other masterworks from its collection.

Image: Frederick Carl Frieseke, Hollyhocks, n.d.

National Academy of Design
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New York, NY 10128
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