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Gauguin As Printmaker: The Volpini Suite Closes September 18 » Free » Golden Gallery » Floor 2 With this exhibition, the IMA unveils a key addition to its PontAven School collection: a rare complete set of Paul Gauguin’s famed Volpini prints. The suite, one of the most important printmaking projects of 19th-century France, was Gauguin’s first attempt at printmaking and the prints reveal his rapid mastery of graphic techniques. The portfolio of 11 zincographs printed on canary yellow paper was nicknamed “Volpini” after the owner of the Café des Arts in Paris where the prints were presented during the summer of 1889.
Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial Closes September 18 » $8 Public, Free for IMA Members » Clowes Special Exhibition Gallery » Floor 2 Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial highlights the artist’s significant contribution to the field of American art and shows how Dial’s work speaks to the most pressing issues of our time—including the War in Iraq, 9/11 and social issues like racism and homelessness. The exhibition presents 70 of Dial’s large-scale paintings, drawings and found-object sculptures spanning 20 years of his artistic career–including 25 works on view for the first time.
Brian McCutcheon: Out of this World September 9, 2011–March 4, 2012 » Free » McCormack Forefront Galleries » Floor 4 See page 15.
The exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation. Additional programming support provided by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
FLOW: Can You See the River? Above » Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903, The Laundress, from The Volpini Suite, 1889, zinograph on canary yellow wove paper, 19 ½ in. x 25 5/16 in. (sheet), Caroline Marmon Fesler Fund, Beeler Fund, Anonymous Art Fund, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Spurlock Fund, Mrs. Pierre F. Goodrich Endowed Art Fund, Nancy Foxwell Neuberger Acquisition Endowment Fund, Gift of the Alliance of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Russell and Becky Curtis Art Purchase Endowment Fund, Roger G. Wolcott Fund, E. Hardey Adriance Fine Arts Acquisition Fund in memory of Marguerite Hardey Adriance, Mary V. Black Art Endowment Fund, Delavan Smith Fund, Emma Harter Sweetser Fund, Cecil F. Head Art Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Van Vorhees Art Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Crane Fund, Richard W. and Rosemary W. Lee Memorial Funds, 2008.359.6; Thornton Dial, b.1928, Setting the Table (detail), 2003, shoes, gloves, bedding, beaded car-seat cover, cloth, carpet, artificial flowers, crushed paint cans, found metal, frying pan, cooking utensils, chain, wood, Splash Zone compound, oil, and enamel on canvas on wood, Collection of Culture and Beyond LLC/ Collection of Barbara and James Sellman, 75 x 74 1/2 x 8 in.
September 23, 2011–February 26, 2012 » Free » Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion See page 16.
Supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund, A CICF Fund.
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