Dates:
August 4, 2012 - April 14, 2013
Location:
Historic Landmark Building, Gallery 6
A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre tells a fascinating tale about art education, mentorship and practice, and learning from historical art. PAFA’s Morse installation will set the painting into an environment that will mirror what is shown in the picture. While the Morse painting will be on one side of the gallery with objects that help provide a broader context for the themes of artistic practice and identity, the other half of the gallery will be hung salon-style with paintings from PAFA’s collection that highlight the four academic genres taught and exhibited at PAFA in the first half of the 19th century. The exhibition will coincide with the demanding copy class taught at PAFA where students will be encouraged to select works installed in the Morse room. Not only will visitors encounter a gallery resembling the one depicted by Morse, but they will witness artists copying historical pictures in the gallery as is represented by Morse.
Curators: Robert Cozzolino, Senior Curator and Curator of Modern Art; Anna Marley, Curator of Historical American Art
Sponsors:
This exhibition is underwritten by a grant and loan of artwork by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
PAFA's special exhibitions in 2012 are supported by generous contributions from Max N. Berry, Esq, Mr. and Mrs. James C. Biddle, Jonathan L. Cohen, and Lori Levine Ordover and Janusz Ordover.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ public programs are funded in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency).
General operating support provided, in part, by 