Exhibition archive - American Spectrum - Norton Museum of Art

American Spectrum: Paintings and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art
10/28/2000 - 1/7/2001

The Norton Museum of Art opens a new exhibition entitled American Spectrum: Paintings and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art on October 28, 2000. For enthusiasts of America's rich legacy of painting and sculpture, the Smith College collection offers a visual treat not often seen outside New England. The exhibition features approximately 55 major examples of American painting and sculpture, spanning more than two centuries. John Singleton Copley had already developed a reputation as the leading artist in Colonial America when he painted his portrait of The Honorable John Erving in 1772. Winslow Homer's Shipyard at Gloucester of 1871 touches on a theme that would intrigue Homer throughout his career - man's relationship to the forces of nature. White Island Light, Isles of Shoals, at Sundown (1899) illustrates Childe Hassam's command of the Impressionist aesthetic, creating a shimmering canvas of the sea and protruding cliffs. Charles Sheeler's close-up view of locomotive wheels in Rolling Power (1939) presents a pristine image of America's potent Machine Age.The Smith College Museum of Art was founded in 1879 to support the work of contemporary American artists, and to introducethe students to overlooked American masters. After 1905 the collection was expanded to include the work of past and present European and American artists. Today the Smith College Museum of Art is world renowned for the importance of its impressive holdings.

This remarkable collection of American paintings and sculpture will tour a select number of North American venues, offering a rare opportunity to trace the development of American painting and sculpture across more than 200 years: from the Colonial period to the Romantic era, and from Impressionism to early Abstraction.

Once the exhibition closes at the Norton Museum, American Spectrum: Paintings and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Philadelphia; the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York; and the Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona. American Spectrum: Paintings and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art is generously underwritten by Sara T. Gillespie and is organized by the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts.

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