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Beach Museum of Art at KSU

 An American in Venice: James McNeill Whistler and His Legacy

April 2, 2013 – June 23, 2013

In 1879, American artist James McNeill Whistler arrived in Italy with a commission from the Fine Arts Society of London to create twelve etchings of Venice. During the ensuing fourteen months, he produced a body of prints that are among the most important of his career. This exhibition presents eleven of Whistler’s Venice works alongside prints by other artists who worked in Italy during the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A mingling of perspectives allows the viewer to appreciate Whistler’s innovations and his impact on other artists.

This exhibition is organized by the Syracuse University Art Galleries, New York 

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Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University

Art On Speed

August 21 – December 17, 2010 

Conveying the abstract notion of speed challenged artists since the early 20th century, when the invention of photography and advent of the automobile offered an exciting and entirely new vantage point from which to experience time and space. This challenge continues today to engage artists around the globe. In Art on Speed, works by a carefully selected group of current international artists creatively express this physically quantifiable and visually illusive concept. These artworks will be shown with images by the pioneering American photographer Harold Edgerton (1903–1990). A professor of electrical engineering, Edgerton invented the stroboscopic light that allowed for photography of motion in visible sequential segments. His fascination with capturing motion in images lives on in the work of this exhibition’s contemporary artists. In sculpture, painting, photography and video, they each create arresting works of art that explore speed, in concept and image.