Exhibition Dates:
February 6, 2020 – August 1, 2021
On view in the
Palice Gallery of European Art
Museum Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Since the late 18th century, European art has dominated the focus of museums in the United States. America’s founding families, such as the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Carnegies, and Gettys, often traveled to Europe, acquiring large amounts of artworks. These “masterpieces” eventually found their way into museum collections of the institutions they helped to build. Galleries dedicated to classical periods, such as Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque, can be found at nearly every art museum in the United States. Similarly, at the Tucson Museum of Art an initial donation of a work on paper by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec from Frederick R. Pleasants, of Monument’s Men fame and later curator at the Arizona State Museum, in 1959 launched the museum’s collection.
Artists and artworks of the infamous “ism” movements in European art, including Romanticism, Impressionism, Fauvism, Surrealism, and Cubism, were the primary interest for museum-goers in the 19th century. By the 1940s American art was all the rage and audiences started to challenge the dominance of white-male European artists on museum walls.
Today, European galleries in museums look different than they did 30 years ago. In addition to the traditional “gallery of masterpieces,” audiences are introduced to thematic and cross-generational exhibitions highlighting artworks by women, LGBTQ+, and artists of color from Europe.
Throughout this gallery notice the varying representations that expand the European canon including works by Arman, Irina Ionesco, Kathe Kollwitz, Nevan Lahart, Marie Lund, Olivier Mossett, Yinka Shonibare, and William Sweetlove.
Desde fines del siglo XVIII, el arte europeo ha dominado la atención de los museos en los Estados Unidos. Las familias fundadoras de los Estados Unidos, como la Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie y Getty, a menudo viajaban por Europa adquirieron grandes cantidades de obras de arte. Estas “piezas maestras” lograron encontrar el camino a las instituciones que las familias ayudaron a construir. Galerías dedicadas a los períodos clásicos, como el griego, romano, medieval, renacentista o barroco, se encuentran en casi todos los museos de los Estados Unidos. Del mismo modo, en 1959 el Tucson Museum of Art recibió su primera donación, una obra en papel del artista francés Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec de Frederick R. Pleasants, parte de los Monument’s Men y más tarde curador del Arizona State Museum.
Los artistas y las obras de los infames movimientos “ismos” en el arte europeo, como el Romanticismo, Impresionismo, Fauvismo, Surrealismo, Cubismo, fueron el principal interés para los visitantes del museo en el siglo XIX. En la década de 1940, el arte estadounidense estaba de moda y el público comenzó a desafiar el dominio de los artistas europeos de hombres blancos en las paredes de los museos.
Hoy, las galerías europeas en los museos tienen un aspecto diferente al de hace 30 años. Además de la tradicional “galería de piezas maestras”, el público es expuesto a exhibiciones temáticas e intergeneracionales que destacan obras de arte de mujeres, LGBTQ y artistas de diferentes razas europeas.
A lo largo de esta galería, observa las diversas representaciones que expanden el canon europeo, incluyendo obras de Arman, Irina Ionesco, Kathe Kollwitz, Nevan Lahart, Marie Lund, Olivier Mossett, Yinka Shonibare y William Sweetlove.
Support
The 2020-2021 Exhibition Season at TMA is presented by James and Louise Glasser.
With support from the following season sponsors: Fran and Jim Allen, Alice and Paul Baker, Mary Jo Brown, Connie Hillman Family Foundation, I. Michael and Beth Kasser, Anne and Ed Lyman, Jeanne Pickering and Mike Andrew, TMA League, Contemporary Art Society, Latin American Art Patrons and Western Art Patrons.
La temporada de exhibición 2020-2021 en TMA es presentada por James y Louise Glasser.
Con el apoyo de: Fran y Jim Allen, Alice y Paul Baker, Mary Jo Brown, Connie Hillman Family Foundation, I. Michael y Beth Kasser, Anne y Ed Lyman, Jeanne Pickering y Mike Andrew, TMA League, Contemporary Art Society, Latin American Art Patrons y Western Art Patrons.
Image Credits: Installation of European art in Palice Gallery of European art. Olivier Mosset, Untitled, 1998, serigraph on paper, 1/4, 27 x 27 in. Collection of the Tucson Museum of Art. Gift of Dan Leach. 2007.14.3