ARTiculate Oct/Nov 2018

MEMORIAL ART GALLERY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018

MONET'S WATERLOO BRIDGE: VISION AND PROCESS ON VIEW OCTOBER 7

NOV 2–4, 2018

FINE CRAFT SHOW

MEMORIAL ART GALLERY

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Opening Party Friday, Nov. 2, 7-9pm $50 GENERAL | $75 PATRON | CALL FOR TICKETS 585-276-8910 Saturday, Nov. 3, 10am-5pm Sunday, Nov. 4, 11am-4pm $10 EACH DAY INCLUDES MUSEUM ADMISSION

(Additional surcharge for Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process)

TOP TO BOTTOM: HIDEAKI MIYAMURA, DIANNE AND DICK MULLER, LORAINE COOLEY, THERESA KWONG, DARLYS EWOLDT

V O I C E S This year the Gallery Council will host the 18th annual Fine Craft Show and Sale at the Memorial Art Gallery on November 2—4.

Nearly 20 years ago, we were exploring the possibility of bringing skilled craft artists to Rochester and creating new fundraising opportunities. After visiting the Philadelphia and Smithsonian Craft Shows, meeting with regional artists to discuss show logistics, preparing potential artist lists, and finalizing lots of details, we launched our first show in November 2001—less than two months after 9/11. We were not sure what to expect, but the Rochester community came out to support the show and the artists.

Artists from at least 16 states as far away as Washington and California have participated. Their one-of-a-kind and limited-edition work has included ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, leather, mixed media, wearables, furniture, and wood. The show has created opportunities to view and acquire special pieces and meet and talk with artists about their processes in developing their work.

I am proud to work with incredible volunteers who continue to enthusiastically support the MAG, our artists, and the Fine Craft Show.

We hope that you will join us this year as we celebrate the handmade and the tradition of craft. There is no experience quite like meeting the makers and finding something that you truly love.

Charlotte Herrera Chair, Fine Craft Show and Sale COVER: Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, London, 1903. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: Acquired through the generosity of the Sarah Mellon Scaife Family, 67.2

CALENDAR Wednesday, October 3 4:30–7:00 PM ESPECIALLY FOR EDUCATORS Fabric of Survival: Art and Storytelling Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz tells her story in pictures and text, family photographs and conversations. A Rochester Holocaust survivor will be our special guest as we tour the Fabric of Survival exhibition. $15 (Art, ELA, SS, Classroom Teachers 6– 12) Contact Chelsea Anderson to register. 585.276.8971, cander35@mag.rochester.edu

Saturday, October 6 Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process member Opening Party 5:00–7:00 PM: Patron Party 8:00–11:00 PM: General Member Party Reserve your space now by contacting. 585-276-8939, memberperks@mag.rochester.edu 5:00–7:00 PM Malgorzata Mosiek Pop-Up Shop (THE STORE @ MAG; Members only, please.)

Sunday, October 7 Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process opens to the public NOON- 3:00 PM Malgorzata Mosiek Pop-up shop (THE STORE @ MAG) Tuesday, October 16 6:30 PM Annual Director's Circle Fall Lecture: New Light on Monet with Dr. Gloria Groom Contact Bella Clemente to register, 585-276-8942, bclemente@mag.rochester.edu Wednesday, October 17 4:30–7:00 PM ESPECIALLY FOR EDUCATORS Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process Explore eight interpretations of Waterloo Bridge and learn what scientific analysis has revealed about Monet’s vision and techniques. $15 (Art, Classroom Teachers) Contact Chelsea Anderson to register. 585.276.8971, cander35@mag.rochester.edu

Thursday, October 25 7:00 PM ILLUSTRATED TALK: A Good Impression Is Lost So Quickly Jennifer Thompson, Senior Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Curator in Charge at the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia.

Free with museum admission Friday, October 26 8:00–11:00 PM Museum of the Dead 4: What the Hex?!

21+ | $20 (adv.), $25 (day of) | visit mag.rochester.edu/magsocial for tickets Thursday, November 1 7:00 PM LECTURE: Embodied Vision Jacob W. Lewis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, and Krishnan Padmanabhan, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester will discuss the rich history of physiology, optics, and neuroscience in relation to human perception, which influenced and was influenced by Monet's Impressionism. Free with museum admission Wednesday, November 7 4:30–7:00 PM ESPECIALLY FOR EDUCATORS Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: The Science Behind Color and Light Educators from MAG and the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC) explain how the scientists looked “beneath the surface” of Waterloo Bridge and what their findings reveal about color theory, light waves, and how we see. $15 (Art, Science) Contact Chelsea Anderson to register. 585.276.8971, cander35@mag.rochester.edu

Friday, November 9 (tentative) 4:00 PM LECTURE: Art and Environment Monet's Waterloo Bridge represented an atmosphere already transformed by the effects of industry. Heather Davis, Professor of Culture & Media at The New School, and artist Mary Mattingly will discuss how contemporary artists are responding to climate change.

Free at the Humanities Center, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester Sunday, November 18 1:00 PM FILM: I, Claude Monet Free with museum admission

ONGOING THURSDAYS

5:00–9:00 PM 1/2 Price Admission Docent-led Tours - 6:00 PM (no tour 10/18) MAG DeTOURSM - 6:00 PM/$12 (includes museum admission)

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October 18: Haunted MAG DeTOUR SM November 9: Movember MAGic DeTOUR with Jes Sutton SM *This DeTOUR is $15 and includes styling info session with Jes

Sutton of Barbetorium after the DeTOURSM SM November 15: Fun Facts DeTOUR Special Events - 7:00 PM October 18: Alternative Music Film (free) October 18: College Night Students from Rochester area colleges receive free admission to the

museum, and can explore the connections between science and art in Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process, participate in an

interactive art activity, and socialize among 5,000 years of world art.

(Free admission with college ID, light refreshments and cash bar)

November 22: Alternative Music Film (free) Food & drink available for purchase from Brown Hound Downtown THE STORE @ MAG open for shopping

FRIDAYS

1:00 PM Docent-led tour of the museum and collection Free with museum admission

$5 Friday!

5:00–9:00 PM November 9: • • •

$5 Admission (Monet exhibition subject to $5 surcharge for non-members) Live performance by Leah and the Upheaval (6:30–8:30 PM) Art Social - Inspired By Monet (6:15–7:45 PM) ($15 | includes museum admission)

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1:00 PM–3:00 PM Kids Create Dates - $10/Child Fun hands-on art projects for kids ages 4–14 in the Vanden Brul Pavilion

SUNDAYS

1:00 PM Docent-led tour of the museum and collection Free with museum admission 1:00 PM & 3:00 PM Going For Baroque Organ Concerts Free with museum admission Sunday, October 14 HISPANIC-LATINO HERITAGE CELEBRATION DAY Sunday, November 11 JEWISH HERITAGE CELEBRATION DAY

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onet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process is a focus exhibition that brings together eight versions of Claude Monet’s famous London series paintings. He began more than 40 versions of Waterloo Bridge during three London sojourns between 1899 and 1901. Monet viewed his paintings of the landmark bridge both individually and as an ensemble that, collectively, expressed his sense of the essential subject—the atmosphere and colors of the fog-bound landscape of London’s Thames River. He struggled to complete these paintings after his return to France, where he reworked many of the canvases in his Giverny studio and released them for sale over the course of several years.

Through myriad components, including art, technology, and video, Monet’s Waterloo Bridge explores Monet’s artistic vision as well as the process by which he struggled to achieve that vision. In addition to the eight versions of Waterloo Bridge—which include MAG’s own stellar example as well as loans from the Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College—a select group of additional works in adjacent galleries provide context for these paintings.

In one of the nearby installations, Monet’s London is seen through prints of the Thames River and its bridges by James Abbott McNeil Whistler and Robert Goff, as well as a

painting of Waterloo Bridge by the American artist Frederick Crane on loan from the Worcester Art Museum. Favorite, rarely seen works from MAG’s own collections— including Edgar Degas’ pastel Dancer seen from Behind, Jean-Louis Forain’s drawing Protector in the Wings, and prints by Degas, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, and Felix Braquemond—give a brief overview of the work of the Impressionist circle.

In addition to these works of art, new technologies and video developed especially for this exhibition allow visitors to explore the London paintings in depth. In May 2016, scientists at the Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State College conducted extensive new imaging and materials analysis on MAG’s own Waterloo Bridge. The results of this process, which show changes Monet made to the composition as well as the exact pigments that he used, are accessible via state-of-the-art touchscreen interactives, allowing visitors to look beneath the surface of the painting.

Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process is both a feast for the eyes and a playground for the curious.

Please join us for a curator’s talk in the Auditorium at 2:00 pm on Sunday, October. 7, with Nancy Norwood and Andrew Cappetta.

This exhibition has been presented by M&T Bank and the Gallery Council of the Memorial Art Gallery, with additional support from Allen C. and Joyce Boucher, Hurlbut Care Communities, Dr. Dawn F. Lipson, McDonald Family, Riedman Foundation, the Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Fund, and Woods Oviatt Gilman, LLP. Funding is also provided by Nancy G. Curme, Peter and Kathy Landers, and James C. and Geraldine Biddle Moore.

This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and is also supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

In-kind support is provided by the Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York.

Scientists in the Art Conversation Department at Buffalo State University examine MAG's Waterloo Bridge, Veiled Sun in May, 2016.

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather, 1900. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Mortimer B. Harris, 1984.1173

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect with Smoke, 1903. The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Helen and Abram Eisenberg Collection, BMA 1976.38

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Veiled Sun, 1903. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Gift of the Estate of Emily and James Sibley Watson, 53.6

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WRITTEN BY ANDREW CAPPETTA | ASSISTANT CURATOR OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

As the primary liaison to the University’s River Campus, I see the Monet exhibition as an opportunity to link faculty and students in the humanities and the research sciences.

An enlightening discussion with Woon Ju Park, a former postdoctoral associate at the U of R’s Center for Visual Science, led me to develop two key questions: How can works of art help viewers understand how they see? How can a basic understanding of visual science explain some of the choices that artists make in creating works of art?

In forming the checklist for Seeing in Color and Black-andWhite, Woon Ju and I focused on European and American abstraction of the mid-20th century, a period when artists such as Josef Albers, Victor Vasarely, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Edna Andrade developed their own rigorous theories about human visual perception and created works of art to demonstrate their principles. The next step was to invite students into the process. Participants in my U of R Spring 2018 course “The 21st Century Art Museum”—held primarily at MAG—researched every object on the checklist, developed the exhibition’s thematics, and prepared drafts of wall texts and catalogue entries for each artwork.

A true university-museum collaboration, Seeing in Color and Black-and-White gives visitors the opportunity to explore the tenets of human vision, discover how artists create perceptual effects, and begin to understand how Monet used color to create form, suggest space, and imply motion in his paintings of Waterloo Bridge.

This exhibition has been presented in honor of the 50th anniversay of MAG's Docent Program.

Roy Lichtenstein, Cathedral #2, 1969. Color lithograph. Gift of Robert and Anne-Marie Logan, 2000.14

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