February 27鈥揓une 14, 2025 |
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Monuments: Commemoration and ControversyOpening reception: 5:00 鈥 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 27 Organized by The New York Historical, the exhibition explores public monuments and their representations as points of debate over national identity, politics, and race. Monuments offers a historical foundation for understanding recent controversies, featuring fragments of a torn-down statue of King George III, a replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City鈥檚 first public monument to a Black woman (Harriet Tubman), among others.
Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City, 1852鈥53, oil on canvas, 44 1鈦8 脳 53 1鈦 16 in. (112 脳 135 cm), gift of Samuel V. Hoffman, collection of The New York Historical (1925.6) |
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Existential Color: Photography from the Permanent CollectionOrganized by John Tagg, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Art History and Luisa Casella, Photograph Conservator, Fellow of American Institute for Conservation. Barry Anderson, Salt Flat Pool, Camargue, Arles, France, 2013, printed 2017, inkjet
print, gift of the artist (2017.12.1)
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Chiura Obata: Japanese Art in AmericaCurated by Yao Shen He 鈥27 Chiura Obata, Death's Grave Pass, High Sierra, USA, from World Landscape Series, 1930, polychrome woodcut, museum purchase with funds donated by John C. Copoulos 鈥73, 2024.1.11
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History and Myth: Violence in Early Modern PrintsCurated by Leah Dascoli 鈥26 Jacques Callot, "The Wheel" (La Roue) (detail) from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War (Les Mis猫res et les Mal-Heures de la Guerre), 1633, etching, Museum purchase with funds donated by Lucie G. Nelson '77 PhD in memory of Lucie and Hugh Grant (2021.11.n)
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Japanese Design and the Arts and Crafts Movement in New YorkCurated by Joseph Leach, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Kamisaka Sekka, Branches in the Wind, 1899, polychrome woodcut, gift of John C. Copoulos 鈥73 (2018.6.3) |
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Paintings and sculpture between the 15th and 20th centuriesJan H. Weissenbruch, Untitled (River Scene), ca. 1850, gift of Walter Oberlander (2017.14.10)
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