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Edward Burtynsky: Oil
through December 13, 2009
Oil Fields #22, Cold Lake Production Project, Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada 2001. Photograph © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy of Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto/Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has traveled internationally for more than a decade to chronicle the global production, distribution, and use of oil, the energy source that has shaped the modern world. This world premiere exhibition, comprised of approximately 55 large-scale color landscape photographs, provides a penetrating look at one of the most important subjects of our time, by one of the most respected and recognized contemporary photographers in the world.
Sargent and the Sea
through January 3, 2010
John Singer Sargent, En Route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish), 1878, oil on canvas. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund 17.2.
In Sargent and the Sea, the Corcoran Gallery of Art brings together for the first time more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings depicting seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the pre-eminent American expatriate painter of the late 19th century.
Sargent and the Sea is organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and made possible by the generous support of the Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support for the exhibition is provided by Christie’s and The Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Inc. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Royal Academy of Arts, London will also present this exhibition.
John Singer Sargent in the Corcoran Collection
through january 3, 2010
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) , Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White (Mrs. Henry White), 1883, oil on canvas, Gift of John Campbell White, 49.4
Known as the pre-eminent society portraitist of the Gilded Age, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) had a long and varied career that included plein-air landscapes, murals, watercolors, and skillful drawings. The Corcoran draws on its deep and varied holdings of Sargent’s work for an intimate presentation in the Rotunda.
American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art
On view now
Frederic Remington, American (1861–1909), Off the Range (Coming Through the Rye), Modeled 1902; Cast 1903, bronze, Museum Purchase 05.7 (photograph by David Finn)
This installation of more than 30 bronze sculptures from the Corcoran’s world-renowned collection of American art highlights works dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries by such masters of the medium as Elie Nadelman, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Alexander Phimister Proctor (sculptor of Washington’s Buffalo Bridge). Works by women sculptors are a particular strength of the Corcoran’s collection, including those by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Anna Hyatt Huntington, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh. The exhibition also features popular favorites such as western bronzes by Frederic Remington, a Civil War group by John Rogers, and sculptures by artists better known for their paintings, such as Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent.
Important Dates
November 23
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December 9
Nick Verreos & FIDM lecture
December 10–12
Off the Wall art sale
December 15
James Rosenquist lecture
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