January Issue 2002
Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC, Features
Early American Works from Smithsonian Collection
The Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC, is presenting the exhibition,
Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art
Museum, which will be on view through Feb. 17, 2002.
Young America presents fifty-four major paintings and sculptures that trace the transformation of the American colonies into nationhood. These rare artworks from the 1760s through the 1870s reveal the growing self-awareness and optimism of a new nation. The artworks reflect life in New England and the mid-Atlantic regions, where British influence was strong in early decades, then rivaled in art by Italian neoclassic styles.
Young America
is one of eight exhibitions in Treasures to Go, from the Smithsonian
American Art Museum, touring the nation through 2002. The Principal
Financial Group is a proud partner in bringing these treasures
to the American people. "Young America's" showing at
the Ackland is generously supported by the Ackland Art Museum
Guild, the Frey American Art Fund and the William Hayes Ackland
Trust.
"These portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and scenes of
daily life show the artists' ambition to equal the best European
art, but they also reveal developments within this country,"
said Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian American Art
Museum. "They help us understand how a British colony became
an independent nation, how wilderness lands were both cherished
and developed, and how a rural democracy responded to the industrial
revolution."
To accompany the exhibition, the Smithsonian
American Art Museum published a lavishly illustrated gift book,
Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Retailing for $19.95, the book features more than sixty color
illustrations and is available for purchase at the Museum.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings
or call the Museum at 919/966-5736 or on the web at (http://www.ackland.org).
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