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News and Events | Montana Museum of Art & Culture | March 2011 |
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HAPPENINGS |  First Friday Celebration
Friday, March 4, 4 - 6pm
Lobby of the PARTV Center
All are welcome.
"The Life of a Masterpiece", a lecture by MMAC Curator of Art Brandon Reintjes
Wednesday, March 9, 7pm
Masquer Theatre in the UM PARTV Center
This lecture will focus on art masterpieces as unique cultural objects as they pass from continent to continent and through lives over the span of decades or centuries. The lecture takes place in conjunction with the MOLLI course, "Questions of Connoisseurship" taught by Reintjes.
Many thanks to: A Private Collector, Laura Barrett, An Anonymous Donor, An Anonymous Donor, First Interstate Bank, The Washington Companies, Champion Members Suzanne and Bruce Crocker, UM Office of the President, Bravo Catering, Missoulian, Montana Public Radio, Bitterroot Flowers and Premier Paints - Daniel and Faye Warren. Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), Portrait de Nini, 1874, oil on canvas, 24 x 19 1/2 inches |
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Meloy and Paxson Galleries
UM PARTV Center
Gallery Hours:
Tues.,Wed., Sat. 12 - 3pm
Thurs. - Fri. 12 - 6pm
Through March 12 only:
Mondays 12 - 3pm
OPEN 12 - 6PM ON
SATURDAY, MARCH 12
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ON VIEW in the Paxson Gallery |
 Three Centuries of European Prints from the MMAC Permanent Collection On view through March 12, 2011
Never before exhibited prints from MMAC's Permanent Collection by Giavonni Batista Piranesi, Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Nicolas De Larmessin, Jean-Michel Moreau, and François Boucher, as well as more familiar works by Honoré Daumier, John Louis Forain, Eugène Delacroix, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Marc Chagall, Käthe Kollwitz, Alberto Giancometti, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.
CATALOG NOW AVAILABLE, $10
To order a copy, contact us at museum@umontana.edu or 406.243.2019.
Many thanks to Champion Members: Anne and Jon Bertsche, Drs. Cathy Capps and Tom Rickard, James and Donna Koch, and Ben and Shirley Steele; and the UM Office of the President.
Image: Giacomo Nevay (Italian, 1764 - 1791), Untitled, one of four etchings on a single page, 4 x 2 1/2 inches
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ON VIEW in the Meloy Gallery |
 Renoir, Magritte, Gauguin and other European Masterpieces from a Private Collection
On view through March 12, 2011This 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, René Magritte, Pierre Auguste-Renoir, George Romney, Théophile van Rysselberghe, and John William Waterhouse. A full color exhibition catalog is available for just $10. Image: William Bouguereau (French, 1825 - 1905), Jeune Fille a la Cruche, 1885, oil on canvas, 38 x 24 1/4 inches |
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NEW EXHIBITIONS OPENING MARCH 24 |
Barry Hood: Flow
March 24 - May 21, 2011, Meloy Gallery
Featuring Hood's bas relief and sculptural glass, which incorporate a wide variety of natural associations. Included are pieces from Hood's Poems for the Blind and Hart series. A UM alum, Hood received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1973, working with noted ceramist Rudy Autio. MMAC Curator of Art Brandon Reintjes contributed an essay to the catalog.
Image: Barry Hood, River Arch, 2008, cast crystal and stone, 7 x 10 x 2 inches
 Sense and Sensation: Laurie Fendrich Paintings and Drawings 1990 - 2010
March 24 - May 21, 2011, Paxson Gallery
Organized by the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, this is the first in-depth retrospective of abstract New York Painter, critic and Hofstra University Professor Laurie Fendrich.
Image: Laurie Fendrich, I Met a Boy Called Frank Mills, 2008, oil on canvas, 36 x 32 inches |
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