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October Issue 2006
Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC, Offers Exhibit of Works from the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Rarely has the exceptional collection of the
Corcoran Gallery of Art traveled outside of its home in Washington,
DC. The Corcoran opened its doors in 1869 as the first art museum
in the United States capital. Today, the Corcoran features a collection
of exceptional quality, depth, and breadth featuring numerous
icons in the history of American art. Making only one stop east
of the Mississippi, Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings
from the Corcoran Gallery of Art will be on view from Oct.
7 through Dec. 31, 2006, at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte,
NC.
A tour of this nature enhances the fine reputation of The Mint
Museums' that has been established through the Museums' inclusion
with national tours, such as Renaissance to Rococo: Masterpieces
from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Raphael
to Monet, European Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum in
Baltimore, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, and Chuck
Close Prints: Process and Collaboration.
Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art focuses on a wide range of works spanning from the late 18th century American colonial era through the first half of the twentieth century and will feature 74 works from the Corcoran's world-renowned collection. This visually stunning exhibition will be organized around the Corcoran's three areas of greatest strength in American painting: Hudson River School landscapes, canvases from the Gilded Age, and early 20th century realism.
Hudson River School works will be celebrations
of the New World terrain such as Thomas Cole's famous cycle Departure
and Return (1837), Frederic Church's majestic Niagara (1857),
and Albert Bierstadt's operatic Mount Corcoran (c 1876-77).
The rapid changes wrought by America's Gilded Age will feature
John Singer Sargent's Madame Pailleron (1897) and Thomas
Eakins' Singing a Pathetic Song (1881).
Portraying the pulsating energy and change of the 20th century
will be engaging realist works like George Bellow's Forty-two
Kids (1907), John Sloan's Yeats at Petitpas (1910),
and Edward Hopper's Ground Swell (1939).
Well-known examples by early masters like John Singleton Copley and Joshua Johnson will introduce the exhibition, and striking compositions such as those by modernist greats Maurice Prendergast, Thomas Hart Benton and Aaron Douglas. Late nineteenth-century works by trompe-l'oeil master William Michael Harnett, realist Richard Norris Brooke, and American Barbizon painter George Inness, among many others, will round out this veritable walk through American history and culture.
Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art was organized by Sarah Cash, Bechhoefer Curator of American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
For further information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Museum at 704/337-2000 or at (www.mintmuseum.org).
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