![]() Stay tuned for more upcoming events by joining our mailing list and following us on social media. A shoecarver, glass founder, woodworker, spinners, and master painters all share their expertise and demonstrate their techniques as the Grohmann Museum becomes a laboratory for the creation of Lost Arts. The event will celebrate the activities and ways of work captured in the paintings and bronzes in the museum’s permanent collection. Save the date! Our 12th annual Lost Arts Festival returns on Saturday, Oct. This event is free with admission ($5 adults, kids 12 & under are free). 20, 5-9 p.m., featuring a gallery talk with the artist at 7 p.m. Join us for the Gallery Night Grand Opening on Oct. Here, Newhall invites viewers to excavate, to dig and uncover, and hopefully unearth something for themselves as it relates to life, work, and art. However, far different than deKooning’s action-painting, this series involves a progression of densely overlaid representational images- industrial areas of Milwaukee and Chicago-landscapes, figures, animals, objects, icons, all of which progressively form multilayered textures. ![]() ![]() In homage to deKooning, the paintings and drawings of Excavations are in part inspired from Newhall’s first encounter with deKooning’s work. Though abstract, the painting conveys figurative implications and a powerful psychological flow of energy-composed as a pattern-field, or unified texture, rather than a more conventional arrangement. In the artist’s early development at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an important painting in the history of American art, Willem deKooning’s Excavation (1950), had a particularly strong impact. In the context of this exhibition, Michael Newhall’s Excavation series represents a specific kind of work-the labor to meet or dig into the imagery of life: internal life, social life, connected life, in all its psychological, emotional, and physical senses. The origins of the word trace back thousands of years to a word meaning vault or hollow-a place in which treasure may be found. This scavenger hunt style exhibition will allow visitors to discover that rather than a static assortment of paintings and sculptures, a museum collection is an assemblage that evolves and grows as new works, new ideas, and new stories are collected.Įxcavations: Paintings and Drawings by Michael NewhallĮxcavation is the work of taking away a surface or covering to reveal what is beneath it to remove what is covered by something else, to disclose. For this exhibition, the museum’s curators have assembled many of the most entertaining and compelling tales gathered over the past 16 years.įrom typesetters in pressrooms giving us the terms uppercase and lowercase to correspondence from international visitors prompting the reattribution of artwork in both time and geography, dozens of narratives reveal rare insights into the collection. ![]() Over the course of our short history, many stories have surfaced related to the art and artists in the museum’s permanent collection. As with much of Plowden's work, many of the scenes captured are no more, existing only on film, in memory, or in scattered remains across the rural countryside. William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 18251905), Art and Literature, 1867. is proud to partner with the Milwaukee Art Museum. ![]() The steward of the collection that Frederick Layton started, one of Milwaukee’s founding public art collections, the Layton Art Collection Inc. Over fifty years of photography is distilled in this collection of vanishing views of America's past. Bouguereau & America is a Layton Art Collection Feature Exhibition. But instead of Plowden's trademark work featuring railroads, bridges, and heavy industry, this exhibition looks at feed mills, grain elevators, barns, and the human impact on the landscape of the Midwest and Great Plains. Moreover, the exhibition offers an opportunity to examine how society’s perspectives can shift over time.Īs the first major exhibition on the artist since the 1980s, Bouguereau & America will offer fresh perspectives on works that form the backbone of many museum collections.Current Exhibition April 21 - October 8, 2023ĭavid Plowden: The Architecture of AgricultureĮxtended by popular demand! The Grohmann Museum once again showcases the photography of David Plowden in honor of the artist's 90th birthday. Their chastely sensual maidens, Raphaelesque Madonnas, and impossibly pristine peasant children mirror the religious beliefs, sexual mores, social problems, and desires of that period. During this period, owning a painting by the artist was de rigueur for any American who wanted to be seen as a serious collector: the artist’s grand canvases brought a sense of classic sophistication to newly formed collections. The exhibition explores the artist’s remarkable popularity throughout America’s Gilded Age, from the late 1860s to the early 1900s. Bouguereau & America showcases more than forty masterful paintings by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). ![]()
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