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2011 - 2013 Exhibition Schedule

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American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting

February 26 - May 13, 2012

This exhibition features 116 paintings by 71 artists who took New York’s Hudson River Valley as their primary subject, pioneering the country’s first native artistic style. Founded in 1825 by Thomas Cole, members of the Hudson River School included Frederic E. Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Asher B. Durand, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson Gifford, among others. For over fifty years, the group drew inspiration and meaning from America’s landscape, sharing a belief in natural religion, an awe of the magnificence of nature, and the notion that the country’s untamed wilderness reflected its national character. American Scenery is the first exhibition to explore the Hudson River School’s practice of creating pairs, series, and groupings of thematically related works that were intended to be seen together.

American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting is organized and toured by the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA.

Support for the exhibition at The Blanton is provided by Mr. and Mrs. Jack S. Blanton, Sr., George and Nicole Jeffords, Dana and Gene Powell, Mary Ann and Larry Faulkner, Suzan and Julius Glickman, Kay M. Onstead, and the Taconic Charitable Foundation.

The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection

June 10 - August 12, 2012

The Blanton will present selections from one of the leading corporate art collections in North America. RBC Wealth Management, headquartered in Minneapolis with local offices in Austin as well as many other U.S. and international cities, began collecting contemporary art in the early 1990s as a way to distinguish itself from other financial management firms.  Committed to representing the diversity of the communities where they do business, they focused on the human figure in all its variety.  Ranging from whimsical to provocative in content, and from large scale to small and across media, the exhibition will feature close to 40 works by leading international contemporary artists including Radcliffe Bailey, Lesley Dill, Gajin Fujita, Luis Gispert, Nan Goldin, Hung Liu, Kerry James Marshall, Elizabeth Payton, Tom Sachs and Kehinde Wiley.

The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Collection

The Collecting Impulse: Fifty Works from Dorothy and Herbert Vogel

June 10 - August 12, 2012

In 2008, The Blanton was selected by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C and by Dorothy and Herbert Vogel as the only museum in Texas to receive fifty works of art through The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a national gift program distributing 2,500 works from the Vogels’ expansive collection to museums across the nation.

The Blanton’s exhibition of its fifty gifts will explore the collecting passions of this spirited and highly informed couple of relatively modest means. Among the works to be featured are those by artists Stephen Antonakos, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Elizabeth Murray, Lynda Benglis, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Richard Tuttle.

Fifty Works for Fifty States, is a joint Initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Paul Pfeiffer

September 16, 2012 - January 13, 2013

Paul Pfeiffer makes sculptural video installations exploring the phenomena of mass spectacles such as professional sporting events, concerts, and horror films. In his series on basketball, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, players become performers and their choreographed movements are framed, slowed down, erased, and frozen in order to underline the sublime potential of the game and the metaphoric undertones of athletic perfection. Shown together in Texas for the first time, selections from the series will be on view in celebration of and concurrent with James Naismith’s original rules of basketball, showing at The University of Texas’ H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports.

This exhibition is organized by the Blanton Museum of Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth and Jeanne and Michael Klein.

Into the Sacred City: Tibetan Buddhist Deities from
the Theos Bernard Collection

September 16, 2012 - January 13, 2013

In 1937, the dashing young American adventurer Theos Bernard was among the first Westerners to gain permission to enter the legendary city of Lhasa in central Tibet. In collaboration with the Berkeley Art Museum, which holds his collection, The Blanton will feature several of Bernard’s rare thangkas, or ritual paintings, of fierce and sublime deities. Conserved especially for this exhibition, this will be the first time the works have been shown to the public.

Into the Sacred City: Tibetan Buddhist Deities from the Theos Bernard Collection is organized by Julia M. White, Senior Curator of Asian Art, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Restoration and Revelation:
Conserving The Suida-Manning Collection

November 17, 2012 - May 5, 2013

Antonio Carneo’s seventeenth-century canvas The Death of Rachel, newly restored through a partnership with the National Gallery of Canada, serves as the focal point of this display about the role of conservation in caring for The Blanton’s Suida-Manning Collection. Go beneath the surface of old master works to explore how the convergence of art and science can reveal new discoveries and understandings about paintings while preserving them for future generations.

Restoration and Revelation: Conserving the Suida-Manning Collection is organized by the Blanton Museum of Art and made possible through a collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Support for this presentation and for conservation at The Blanton is provided, in part, by Alessandra Manning-Dolnier and Kurt Dolnier and donors who contributed to the 2011 Annual Fund.