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News and Events | Montana Museum of Art & Culture | February 2011 |
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Meloy & Paxson Galleries
UM PARTV Center
GALLERY HOURS:
Mon. - Wed./Sat. 12 - 3pm
Thurs. - Fri. 12 - 6pm
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FIRST FRIDAY CELEBRATION | You are invited to a pre-Valentine's Day First Friday Celebration!
Friday, February 4, 4-6pm
Lobby of the UM PARTV Center
Extra special treats
1/2 price Masterpieces catalogs (4 - 6pm only)
Surprise giveaways
Live music with Dan Dubuque!
Many thanks to: Community Medical Center and Bitterroot Flowers |
| ON VIEW in the Meloy Gallery | |
 Renoir, Magritte, Gauguin, and other European Masterpieces from a Private Collection
Through March 12, 2011
This exhibition provides an unprecedented opportunity to experience works by notable artists from the late 18th to early 20th centuries. Centered on portraiture, the exhibition includes works by Alexander Archipenko, Rosa Bonheur, William Bouguereau, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Ren é Magritte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, George Romney, Th éophile van Rysselberghe, and John William Waterhouse. A full color exhibition catalog is available for just $10. Image:Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), Mademoiselle Grimprel au ruban rouge (Helene Grimprel), 1880, oil on canvas, 17 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches |
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| ON VIEW in the Paxson Gallery | 
Three Centuries of European Prints from the MMAC Permanent Collection
Through March 12, 2011
This exhibition includes never before exhibited prints from MMAC's Permanent Collection by Giavonni Batista Piranisi, Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Nicolas De Larmessin, John Michel Moreau, and François Boucher, as well as more familiar works by Honoré Daumier, Jean Louis Forain, Eugène Delacroix, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Marc Chagall, Käthe Kollwitz, Alberto Giancometti, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.
An exhibition catalog is being prepared and will be available February 20th for just $10. Image: Pablo Picasso, Le Picador, 1961, lithograph |
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HAPPENINGS |  Thursday, February 10, 2011, Montana Theatre A Good Likeness: Portraiture
in the 18th - 20th Centuries
a lecture by Dr. Valerie Hedquist, UM Professor of Art History and Criticism
Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1941 - 1919),
Portraite de Wilhelm Muhlfeld, 1910, oil on canvas,
21 5/8 x 18 3/8 inches |
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UM GALLERY TOUR | |
On Tuesday, January 18th, the Montana Museum of Art & Culture welcomed Provost Perry Brown and UM's Academic Officers to the Masterpieces exhibitions. Opening remarks were given by Director Barbara Koostra, and selected pieces were highlighted by Curator of Art Brandon Reintjes.
WELCOME BACK FOR SPRING SEMESTER!
Image: Dr. Michael Harrington, Associate Dean, School of Business Administration (left), Dr. Peggy Kuhr, Dean, School of Journalism (right) view prints in the Paxson Gallery |
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DID YOU KNOW? |  Did you know that an estimated 750,000 people have visited MMAC's national traveling exhibitions since 2005? Exhibits such as Josephine Hale: Paintings and Sketches by a Montana Pioneer Artist on view at the Hockaday Museum in Kalispell, MT, and Traces: Montana's Frontier Revisited by Richard Buswell currently on view at the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings, SD. To see a list of exhibitions currently available for loan click here. If you would like more information about MMAC's traveling exhibitions, contact Curator of Art Brandon Reintjes at 406.243.2019 or brandon.reintjes@mso.umt.edu. Image: Josephine Hale, Tulips, oil on canvas, n.d., 19 1/5 x 22 1/4 inches framed |
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