This exhibition brings together an impressive group of paintings by the Mexican artist Raúl Anguiano and explores the artist’s use of symbolic imagery. Pre-Columbian history, contemporary indigenous populations of Mexico, and women reverberate in the artist’s canvases. Portraits of women form the central core of the artist’s oeuvre. In his powerful portraits, Anguiano expressed a sense of intimacy and evoked the…

July 10–December 31, 2010 Selections from the Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection Artist, aristocrat, and colorful chronicler of the Belle Époque, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) was one of the greatest artists of the late nineteenth century. For the first time in 20 years, more than 100 works by Toulouse-Lautrec will be shown together at The San Diego Museum of Art. Toulouse-Lautrec’s…

Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt Alfred Eisenstaedt was born in the West Prussian town of Dirschau (present-day Tczew, Poland) and served in the German Army during World War I. It was in Berlin between the wars that he began working as a freelance photojournalist. Armed with his 35mm Leica camera, he captured the first meeting between Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini…

Time and Place Time and Place explores the most recent work of Sir Howard Hodgkin (born 1932), one of Great Britain’s most renowned painters of the later 20th century.  Celebrated for almost half a century, Hodgkin’s art is characterized by integrity and rigor. Time and Place, however, is emphatically about the here and now. Hodgkin’s work plays with the notion…

In a spectacular array of 12 paintings by Sir Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), this exhibition explores the ways that women, art, and fashion came together to contribute to a new sense of women’s roles in society in the mid to late eighteenth century.  Gainsborough was noted in his day as an unparalleled master of brushwork, and his representations of women seem…

250 Years of Japanese Woodblock Prints This landmark exhibition, on view at both the Museum and the University of San Diego, unveils prime examples of Japanese print treasures drawn from the Museum’s rarely seen collection. Spanning the history of Ukiyo-e and beyond from the 17th- to 20th- century, the exhibition is arranged thematically within a chronological framework, and includes important…

Modernists across the globe looked to Paris as the source of movements and ideas that revolutionized art in the 20th century. Photographer Jonas Yip (American, b. 1967) and his father, poet Wai-lim Yip (born in China in 1937), chose Paris to be the focal point of a dialogue between text and image, classical and modern, East and West, and father…

The life story and multitude of work produced by Jean Charlot reveal an artist who traveled frequently, but who sought great inspiration from local environments. Charlot was not an artist that reveled in what was fashionable; instead he pioneered new techniques and emphasized the frequently neglected popular arts and daily life experiences of the people. The exhibition Global Journey/Local Response celebrates…

The San Diego Museum of Art is proud to present Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, this is the first nationally touring exhibition to focus on the career of Stickley (1858–1942), one of the leading figures of the American Arts and Crafts movement. The exhibition will examine Stickley’s contributions to…