Exhibitions : Past Exhibitions
Blakelock Paintings on View with Works from Sheldon's Collections
Date(s): May 6, 2008 thru August 24, 2008
The Sheldon’s outstanding collections document the development of art in the United States through the American experience, offering insightful narratives into the artists and their times.
From May 6 through August 24 this year, paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock are on view with artworks from the museum's permanent collection in two galleries. In the fall the Blakelock works will then travel to the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts in New York City for The Unknown Blakelock organized by the Sheldon Museum of Art.
In one permanent collection gallery this summer, Blakelock's work is paired with his contemporaries Albert Pinkham Ryder and George Inness, who like Blakelock were interested in the subjective experience. Blakelock's visionary approach, experimental nature and introspective personality also struck a chord with later artists such as John Marin, Marsden Hartley and Arthur B. Davies, who were instrumental in moving American painting away from realism toward a personal autonomy that would characterize the art in the 20th century.
In a second gallery, the work of Abstract Expressionists is on view with several other Blakelock paintings. These artists were attracted to qualities that Blakelock expressed through his experimentation with the formal elements of painting and the internal experience he revealed. Franz Kline, Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock are among the artists whose works are on view.
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Location: Sheldon
