This November marks the centennial of the end of World War I. To commemorate the conclusion of the global tragedy ironically known as the “War to End All Wars,” a selection of seldom-seen graphic works from the Museum’s permanent collection will be on view. While the United State struggled to remain neutral during the Great War which began in 1914,…

Modern American Prints, 1920-1948 features an exceptional group of American prints from the Museum’s collection from the “Roaring Twenties” through the Great Depression and World War II. Works in three major mediums–lithography, etching and wood engraving–demonstrate the aesthetic potential of printmaking during the period. While some of the artists focused on the dynamism of urban life in New York City,…

Victor Javier Marín Gutiérrez (b. Uruapan, Mexico, 1962) is an artist of international renown, best known for his monumental sculpture based primarily on the human form. Following rigorous training in draftsmanship, painting, and modeling at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Mexico City in the 1980s, Javier Marín had achieved international stature by the end of the millennium with…

Photography was introduced to India in the mid-nineteenth century, with the arrival of the British.  Many early photographers were assigned by the British government to document Indian architecture, landscape, religions, and society. Their images, with a romantic and Eurocentric view, provided both their contemporaries and today’s spectators a sense of exoticism and distant memory, and at the same time a…

Alfred Mitchell (1888–1972) created evocative views of the geography of San Diego using stark contrasts of dark and light and capturing subtle nuances of light at different times of day. His canyons, usually devoid of people, are a source of stillness, quiet, and timelessness. Although a representational artist, he was influenced by modern painting techniques he had seen when traveling…

Among the heirs to the French plein-air tradition was the American Impressionist Childe Hassam. Most indelibly associated today with his iconic paintings of flags lining 5th Avenue on the 4th of July, Hassam was one of the leading painters of the period, and an accomplished and influential printmaker. The etchings and lithographs featured in the exhibition, including a view of…

The Max and Muriel Gluck Collection–featuring modern masterpieces by Pierre Bonnard, Amedeo Modigliani, and Edouard Vuillard–forms the nucleus of a group of paintings from the school of Paris. Alongside highlights from this transformational bequest, a gift to the Museum in 1985, are other paintings from the museum’s collection, including works by Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Together, these present…

Adventure. Battles. Romance. Epic Tales from Ancient India features more than 90 works of art from the Museum’s world-renowned Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Indian paintings. Introducing viewers to paintings of India and its subcontinent, these works are seen through larger-than-life narratives based on classical literature of the region. Indian paintings are usually admired as individual works of art, but…

“[Gjon Mili] could capture on one negative more grace and beauty than Hollywood cameramen get on many feet of motion-picture film.” – Life magazine, Dec 28, 1942   Motion Pictures explores the various ways the innovative photographer Gjon Mili studied, interpreted, and suspended motion in 35 gelatin silver prints, and features a continuous screening of the artist’s Academy Award-nominated film…

A Children’s Exhibition About Frida Kahlo Making its debut in the United States, Frida and Me is an interactive experience. In a playful circuit that can be followed in any order, a series of fun activity stations immerses children and their families in the life and work of the celebrated twentieth-century artist Frida Kahlo. An iconic figure in modern Mexican…