American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915
28 Feb - 23 May 2010
John Singleton Copley
Watson and the Shark, 1778
oil on canvas
71 3/4 x 90 1/2 in. (182.2 x 229.9 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ferdinand Belin Fund (1963.6.1), image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Watson and the Shark, 1778
oil on canvas
71 3/4 x 90 1/2 in. (182.2 x 229.9 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ferdinand Belin Fund (1963.6.1), image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
AMERICAN STORIES: PAINTINGS OF EVERYDAY LIFE, 1765–1915
February 28–May 23, 2010
Narrative painting has been the source of many of America’s most enduring images and national myths, but oddly it is largely ignored by both the public and scholars. This exhibition, organized by LACMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be the first survey of narrative painting since the Whitney’s exhibition of 1974 and Elizabeth Johns’s book American Genre Painting of 1991. The exhibition will break new ground by dividing the chronology of the narrative painting genre in a new way. This divide occurs by enlarging the boundaries of traditional narrative painting, by addressing the works’ aid in both personal and national self-fashioning, and by uniting approximately one hundred paintings to display a remarkable exhibition from beginning to end. Curators: Bruce Robertson, Consulting Curator, American Art, LACMA; Barbara Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, MMA. This exhibition was organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
February 28–May 23, 2010
Narrative painting has been the source of many of America’s most enduring images and national myths, but oddly it is largely ignored by both the public and scholars. This exhibition, organized by LACMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be the first survey of narrative painting since the Whitney’s exhibition of 1974 and Elizabeth Johns’s book American Genre Painting of 1991. The exhibition will break new ground by dividing the chronology of the narrative painting genre in a new way. This divide occurs by enlarging the boundaries of traditional narrative painting, by addressing the works’ aid in both personal and national self-fashioning, and by uniting approximately one hundred paintings to display a remarkable exhibition from beginning to end. Curators: Bruce Robertson, Consulting Curator, American Art, LACMA; Barbara Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, MMA. This exhibition was organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.