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Summer Sizzles at the Art Museum |
 An Americana Family Barbeque
Thursday, June 17, from 5 to 8 p.m.
Join us for a high summer evening of American favorites in conjunction with the exhibition Inner Sanctum in Princeton's Nassau Hall. Our first-ever summer barbeque will celebrate American art with a bicycle-decorating contest, face-painting, re-enactors from great moments in American history, exhibition tours, and of course a great cookout!
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 Sneak Peek!
The Princeton Festival at the Art Museum Thursday, June 10, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Come to the Museum for a preview presented by the Princeton Festival of its 2010 production of Handel's opera Ariodante. Accompanied by harpsichordist Lynda Saponara and cellist Elizabeth Thompson, the cast will perform arias from the production. Ariodante is one Handel's greatest operas and is based on Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Written in 1735, the opera is a tale of betrayal, sex, love, and honor in the Scottish court. |
Don't miss A Royal Commission: François Boucher's Water and Earth Reunited, closing June 13. The stunning works Arion on the Dolphin and Vertumnus and Pomona, by the quintessential French Rococo artist François Boucher, are reunited for the first time in decades. King Louis XV, linked to the king's most famous mistress, Madame de Pompadour, and based on an opera-ballet, Les Élémens, in which she played Pomona in her amateur theatrical performances before the king. |
 As a benefit of membership you are cordially invited to a special Friends-only tour of Inner Sanctum: Memory and Meaning in Princeton's Faculty Room at Nassau Hall on Thursday, June 10, at 6 p.m. in Nassau Hall. From British monarchs to American presidents, from clergymen to economists, Karl Kusserow, associate curator of American art, will guide you through the portraits that embody the narrative of Princeton's history including Charles Willson Peale's George Washington at the Battle of Princeton, one of the great icons in American art. This special exhibition organized by the Art Museum explores the Faculty Room as the symbolic center of the University and its role in shaping and reflecting Princeton's identity. |
Image credits, top to bottom:
Princeton University Art Museum
Photo: Bruce M. White
Mitch Epstein, American, born 1952
Madison Avenue, New York City
1973, printed later
Dye transfer print
16 x 20 inches
Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
SB60
© Black River Productions, Ltd./Mitch Epstein. Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Charles Willson Peale, American, 1741-1827
George Washington at the Battle of Princeton
1784
Oil on canvas
237.0 x 145.0 cm. (93 5/16 x 57 1/16 in.)
Commissioned by the Trustees of Princeton University
PP222
Photo: Bruce M. White
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806
Angelica Appearing before Sacripante
Black chalk, brush and brown ink, brown and gray wash on ivory paper
39.8 x 24.7 cm. (15 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Gift of friends of Professor Rensselaer W. Lee, Class of 1920, in his honor
x1976-20
Photo: Bruce M. White
François Boucher, French, 1703 - 1770
Arion on the Dolphin
1748
Oil on canvas
86.0 x 135.5 cm (33 7/8 x 53 3/8 in.)
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
y1980-2
Photo: Bruce M. White
Princeton University's Faculty Room in Nassau Hall
Photo: Bruce M. White
Reproduction of these images is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the written permission from the copyright holder. © 2010 Princeton University Art Museum. All rights reserved. |
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