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2012 - 2013 Exhibition Schedule
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The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection
June 10 - August 12, 2012
Roland Fischer
Untitled (L.A. Portrait), 2000
C-print and acrylic on board
Collection of RBC Wealth Management
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 Peyton, 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
Richard Tuttle
Dallas (9 Pencil Lines), 1970
Watercolor and graphite
Blanton Museum of Art, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, 2008.93
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 50 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 50 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.
The Collecting Impulse: Fifty Works from Dorothy and Herbert Vogel is organized by the Blanton Museum of Art
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
The Rules of Basketball: Works by Paul Pfeiffer and James Naismith's Original Rules of Basket Ball
September 16, 2012 – January 13, 2013
Paul Pfeiffer
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (06)
Digitial duraflex print
Collection of Ninah and Michael Lynne. © Paul Pfeiffer. Photo courtesy of
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
Works by contemporary artist Paul Pfeiffer are presented in conversation with James Naismith's original "Rules of Basket Ball" — the 1891 document that outlined the 13 original rules of the game. This unique pairing considers basketball from a historical perspective, while exploring the phenomena and spectacle that surround it.
Pfeiffer's works highlight the sublime potential and metaphoric undertones of athletic perfection. Naismith's historic rules outline the fundamental structure of the game that became a national obsession. Together, they provide a special interplay of history, sport, and psychology.
This exhibition is organized by the Blanton Museum of Art.
Support for the exhibition is provided by Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth, Jeanne and Michael Klein, the Linda Pace Foundation, and Kenny and Susie Jastrow. Travel for the exhibition is provided by United Airlines.
Into the Sacred City: Tibetan Buddhist Deities from
the Theos Bernard Collection
September 16, 2012 - January 13, 2013
Tibetan, Padmasambhava before conservation treatment
18th-19th century
Colors on cotton
The University of California
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Bequest of G. Eleanore Murray
In 1937, the dashing young American adventurer and scholar Theos Bernard was among the first westerners to gain permission to enter the legendary city of Lhasa in central Tibet. Granted unprecedented access to study Tibetan culture and beliefs firsthand, this charismatic figure extensively documented his journey and amassed a vast array of artworks, now housed at the Berkeley Art Museum.
Drawn from Bernard's collection and organized exclusively for The Blanton, this focused presentation features three rare thangkas, ritual scroll paintings of fierce and sublime Buddhist deities. Also on view are five painted mandalas — elaborate, symbolic diagrams used as meditative aids. Conserved especially for the exhibition, this is the first time this extraordinary group of objects has been show to the public.
In conjunction with the exhibition, monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Atlanta will create a sand mandala at The Blanton, November 14-18.
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.
Support for the exhibition and related programming at The Blanton is provided by Judy and Charles Tate, Leslie and Jack Blanton, Jr. and Jessica and Jimmy Younger.
Restoration and Revelation:
Conserving The Suida-Manning Collection
November 17, 2012 - May 5, 2013
Antonio Carneo
The Death of Rachel before conservation treatment, ca. 17th century
Oil on canvas
32 x 42 in.
The Suida-Manning Collection
Antonio Carneo’s seventeenth-century canvas The Death of Rachel, recently conserved by the National Gallery of Canada, serves as the focal point of this in-depth look at 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 understanding about paintings and drawings 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.