Everlasting Calm gallery guide

GALLERY GUIDE

Everlasting Calm:

The Art of Elliott Daingerfield

About the exhibition Temporary exhibition space View moonlit Southern landscapes.

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Consider the significance of spiritual vision in Daingerfield’s work.

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Learn about Elliott Daingerfield.

Explore Tonalism and see the work of Daingerfield contemporaries—George Inness and Ralph Blakelock.

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River Views & Vibes: Elliott Daingerfield Era Music Thursday, February 16, 2017, 6–8 pm, Fifth Floor

Academy of Design Series

All materials provided. Members: $45 for a series of 3, $15 for individual class.

Nonmembers: $50 for series of 3; $20 for individual class. Classes limited to 15 participants; must register in advance at www.lsumoa.org.

Still Life in Pastel Thursday, February 9, 2017, 6–8 pm, 5th Floor Figure Drawing Thursday, February 23, 2017, 6–8 pm, 5th Floor Plein Air Painting Sunday, March 5, 2017, 1:30–3:30 pm, meet in Shaw Center lobby

Brown Bag Lunch: Daingerfield and Tonalism Wednesday, March 1, 2017, 12–1 pm, 3rd Floor

Images courtesy The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.

Programs

Check out Daingerfield’s imaginitive Western landscapes.

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Read Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau or more about Daingerfield.

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LSU Museum of Art decorative arts and furniture collections help create a space evocative of Daingerfield’s studio and home (below).

Look at figurative drawings demonstrating Daingerfield’s academic training.

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Timeline Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species.

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry.

1859 Elliott Daingerfield is born in VA.

Civil War ends in 1865.

Civil War begins.

George Inness publishes “Painter on Painting” in 1878.

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Daingerfield family moves to Fayetteville, NC.

Moves to New York, begins study at National Academy of Design.

Moves to Holbein Studio in NY, meets George Inness soon after.

His father is taken hostage by John Brown.

Marries first wife, Roberta Strange French of Wilmington, NC. Ford Motor Company produces Model T in 1908.

1902 Wins Clark Prize at National Academy of Design.

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by Haley Fiske to paint murals for Lady Chapel in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in New York.

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Daughter Gwendoline is born.

Becomes a full member of the National Academy of Design.

Publishes “Nature versus Art.”

IMAGES: Annual Reception at the National Academy of Design, New York, a wood engraving from a sketch by W. S. L. Jewett, published in Harper’s Weekly, May 1868. Elliott Daingerfield; Mystic Brim; 1893; oil on canvas; The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.

National Academy of Design membership pin courtesy The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Elliott Daingerfield; Genius of the Canyon; 1913; oil on canvas; The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.

Sigmund Freud publishes Interpretation of Dreams in 1901.

George Inness dies in 1894.

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First wife dies in childbirth along with child.

Paints Grief and Mystic Brim.

Publishes essay on George Inness.

Daughter Marjorie is born.

Marries Anna Grainger.

Mystic Brim

World War I begins in 1914.

Armory Show.

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Travels west with family again and paints The Genius of the Canyon.

Begins design of Westglow, his third studio and home in Blowing Rock, NC.

Elliott Daingerfield dies at age 73 in Gainsborough Studio in NY.

Significant world events Elliott Daingerfield life The Genius of the Canyon

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Connection to the LSU MOA collection The landscape genre grew increasingly important in nineteenth-century America and Europe. Landscapes began to express American identity and aspirations. The influence of artistic schools can be seen in the LSU Museum of Art’s collection of landscapes and in Daingerfield’s works.

Hudson River School The Hudson River School was the first major artistic circle and style in the United States emerging in the mid-nineteenth century. Hudson River School paintings are characterized by panoramic vistas; luminous, radiant light; and geographic detail like Alexander Loemans’ piece in the Landscape Gallery. An idealized landscape created a sense optimism that expressed Americans’ belief in Manifest Destiny and that God/the spirit is in nature and is humbling to man.

French Barbizon School The Hudson River School fell out of favor after the Civil War. French Barbizon School landscapes focused on plein air realistic and naturalistic painting of local pastoral scenes, often with animals and peasants. The paintings featured attention to tonal qualities and minimal detail with a more expressive brushstroke than earlier landscapes or Hudson River School landscapes. Richard Clague, a Lousiana Creole, reflects the French Barbizon influence in Louisiana.

Tonalism Artists like George Inness and Elliott Daingerfield synthesized the stylistic innovation of Barbizon with American spiritualism. Tonalist landscapes are more intimate in scale and feature subdued color and an emphasis on mood. Tonalists sought to evoke deep emotional responses rather than describe. Joseph Meeker’s After the Storm, Lake Maurepas shows the soft atmosphere characteristic of Tonalist paintings.

IMAGE CREDITS: 1. Alexander F. Loemans (1816–1898), Canadian Rockies with Native Americans, oil on canvas, gift of Dr. and Mrs. A. K. McInnis, Jr. LSUMOA 83.25 2. Richard Clague (1821–1873), Farm in St. Tammany, circa 1851–1870, oil on canvas, gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Groves. LSUMOA 60.2.2 3. Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827–1887), After a Storm, Lake Maurepas, circa 1886, oil on canvas, gift of Chi Omega.

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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS When the Water Rises: Recent Paintings by Julie Heffernan March 16 – September 17, 2017 Contemporary Masters: Works on Paper from the Collection of the Art Museum of South Texas organized by The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi

April 7 – July 9, 2017

Exploring Photography: Works from the Permanent Collection April 7 – July 9, 2017

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www.lsumoa.org | 225-389-7200 ON FRONT AND BACK COVER: Elliott Daingerfield; The Lone Cypress (detail); circa 1914; oil on canvas; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Gift of the Robert Powell Coggins Art Trust.

Generous support for this exhibition provided by The Imo N. Brown Memorial Fund in memory of Heidel Brown and Mary Ann Brown, Louisiana CAT, L. Cary Saurage II Foundation, and Charles Schwing.

Additional support provided by Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips L.L.P.