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  Amherst • Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
    • Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
 
  Andover • Addison Gallery of American Art
 
  Attleboro • Attleboro Arts Museum
 
  Boston • Museum of Fine Arts
    • Boston Athenaeum
    • Boston University Art Gallery
    • Institute of Contemporary Art
    • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
 
  Brockton • Fuller Craft Museum
 
  Cambridge • Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University
    • Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University
    • Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University
    • Harvard Art Museum
    • MIT List Visual Arts Center
    • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
 
  Chestnut Hill • McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College
 
  Cotuit • Cahoon Museum of American Art
 
  Dedham • Museum of Bad Art
 
  Dennis • Cape Cod Museum of Art
 
  Duxbury • The Art Complex Museum
 
  Fitchburg • Fitchburg Art Museum
 
  Framingham • Danforth Museum of Art
 
  Lincoln • DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
 
  Lowell • Whistler House Museum Of Art
 
  Medford • Tufts University Gallery
 
  New Bedford • New Bedford Art Museum
 
  North Adams • Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
 
  Northampton • Smith College Museum of Art
 
  Pittsfield • Berkshire Museum
 
  Plymouth • Pilgrim Hall Museum
 
  Provincetown • Provincetown Art Association and Museum
 
  Salem • Peabody Essex Museum
 
  Sandwich • Heritage Museums and Gardens
 
  Sharon • Kendall Whaling Museum
 
  South Hadley • Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
 
  Springfield • The Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle
 
  Stockbridge • Norman Rockwell Museum
 
  Waltham • Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University
 
  Wellesley • Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College
 
  Williamstown • Clark Art Institute
    • Williams College Museum of Art
 
  Winchester • Griffin Museum of Photography
 
  Worcester • Worcester Art Museum

ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM

 
 
 
The Omnibus, second version, 1892, Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America 

 February 28–May 13, 2013 | Hostetter Gallery

The first historic designed wing presents new international scholarship about Anders Zorn, considered one of the most significant artists of the Belle Epoque. Although highly esteemed by contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, Zorn is little known in the U.S. today.exhibition in the Hostetter Gallery in the Gardner Museum’s new Renzo Piano-Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America investigates how Zorn became an international artist who set the groundwork for modern art, reveals his rapidly developing style from 1890 to the early 1900s, and his variety of subjects. The exhibition is organized in five different segments, including “Zorn and Gardner,” “Society Portraits,” “In the City,” “Country Life,” and “Artist’s Studios.” Twenty-four paintings are featured together with twenty-two drawings, photographs, letters, and gifts that Anders Zorn gave Isabella Gardner in 1894.

Highlights include Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice (1894) and distinguished loans that have never been shown in America, such as Night Effect (1895), on loan from Gothenburg Museum of Art, Göteborg, Sweden, and The Ice Skater (1898), on loan from Zornmuseet, Mora, Sweden. Additionally, major paintings have come together for the first time, including objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Art Institute, Chicago. The exhibition centers on strong holdings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, highlighting the central role of Gardner as a most influential patron of Anders Zorn in America.

You can see more works by Anders Zorn in the historic building. Please visit the Blue Room (1st floor) for oil portraits and the Short Gallery (2nd floor) for etchings.

Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America is the first exhibition to be curated and organized by Oliver Tostmann, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection, who joined the curatorial staff of the Isabella Gardner Museum in April 2011.

Premier Exhibition Sponsor: Bank of America
Support for the exhibition catalogue and related research was provided by the Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation. Additional support provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Richard C. von Hess Foundation, and The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. The Museum receives operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Media Sponsor: Boston Globe Media.

Peabody Essex Museum

Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China

 March 14, 2009 to December 31, 2010

 

 Through delicate works on paper and other select objects, explore four essential motifs Westerners often associate with China — fish, silk, tea, bamboo. Each was cultivated for artistic expression as well as profit. All helped shape the emerging concept of the Middle Kingdom in 18th-century Europe.

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