Submitted by the Arkell Museum at Canajohaire
You are invited to a reception for two American Art exhibitions, American Tonalism: Paintings of Poetry and Soul, and Picturing Women: American Artists’ Images of Women 1780′s-1940,developed from the remarkable Arkell Museum and Arkell Foundation Collections.
The evening reception includes music by the Musicians of Ma’alwyck, gallery talks, wine and hors d’oeuvres.
7:15-7:35pm - Picturing Women Gallery Docent Talk
7:45-8:15pm - American Tonalism Curator’s Gallery talk with Diane Forsberg.
Free for all Museum Members, $12 for Museum Guests
American Tonalism: Paintings of Poetry and Soul
February 27, 2010-June 6, 2010
Tonalism was concurrent with American Impressionism. While some Americans were creating works inspired by Monet and the French Impressionists, there were other artists exploring a distinctly different style. Two European styles that influenced the development of American Tonalism were Aestheticism-as it was practiced by the American expatriate James Abbot McNeill Whistler, and the French Barbizon style as it was spiritually interpreted by George Inness. Superb paintings by both of these influential artists are in this exhibition.
A subdued palette and a misty poetic interpretation of landscape can be seen in Tonalist paintings by Francis Murphy, Andrew Wyant and Dwight Tryon. Moody moonlit paintings by Ralph Blakelock and his friend Alexander Shilling demonstrate other aspects of the Tonalist style. While most Tonalist paintings are of landscapes, the exhibition also includes the Whistlerian interior scene The Letter by Thomas Dewing. The American Impressionists
J. Alden Weir and John Twatchman are also included in this exhibition.
Picturing Women: American Artists’ Images of Women 1780s-1940
March 4, 2010-June 8, 2010
The Arkell Museum owns remarkable portraits of women painted by notable American artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt. This exhibition includes these portraits along with other painted views of women at leisure and perusing everyday activities. The representations of women in this exhibition range from young to old, and from entirely decorative to thoroughly personal. Some are formally posed portraits while others, such as Reginald Marsh’s watercolor A
Windy Day, capture a specific snap-shot moment in time.
