August 27, 2024
On view
New season at the Addison kicks off with opening reception September 21The Addison Gallery of American Art will reopen on Tuesday, September 3. The museum's public opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 21, 4–6 p.m.
Ed Clark, The City, 1952. Acrylic on canvas, 51 x 78 1/2 in. (129.5 x 199.4 cm). Collection of Melanca Clark, Boston. Courtesy Hauser and Wirth © Estate of Ed Clark. Photo: Hollister and Young, Michigan Imaging
Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962
September 3, 2024–January 5, 2025
Comprising some 135 artworks by approximately 70 artists, including Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, Jack Youngerman, Carmen Herrera, Joan Mitchell, and Mark Tobey, this exhibition delves into the various circles of American artists who made France their home during the post-World War II era, and investigates the academies where many studied, the spaces where their work was exhibited, their interactions with European artists, and the overarching issue of what it meant to be an American abroad.
Eastman Johnson, Woman on a Hill, 1870, oil on pressed cardboard, 25 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches, museum purchase, 1938.5
Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School
September 14, 2024–February 2, 2025
This exhibition places landscape paintings by the renowned contemporary Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick in conversation with 19th-century Hudson River School paintings from the New York Historical Society’s and the Addison Gallery’s collections. Celebrating a shared reverence for nature while engaging crucial questions about land dispossession and its reclamation by Indigenous peoples and nations, Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School explores the relationship between Indigenous art and American art history.
Indian Encampment, Shoshone Village by Bierstadt Albert Bierstadt, Indian Encampment, Shoshone Village, 1860. Oil on millboard. New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart, S-52
Figure/Ground
September 14, 2024–March 2, 2025
Featuring works from the Addison’s collection, Figure/Ground explores the connection between individuals and their environments, illustrating how human experience is shaped by the spaces we inhabit. Some figures seem at ease within their settings, while others appear constrained by or disconnected from them. Some figures find harmony with nature, while others struggle against it. These varied scenes invite narrative and prompt reflection on the ways we relate to our own environments.
Top Image: Shirley Jaffe, Untitled, 1954. Oil on canvas, 60 x 41 1/2 in. (152.4 x 105.4 cm). National Academy of Design, New York © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
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