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| Summertime at the Art Museum | July 7, 2010 |
Escape the heat in our cool galleries. Reconnect with old favorites and be inspired by new installations throughout the Museum. |
 Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980July 10 to September 26, 2010 Starburst offers the first historical survey of what critics of the 1970s called "the new color photography," an informal artistic movement that launched color toward its position of preeminence in contemporary art.
The exhibition features generous bodies of work by eighteen artists, from the still-prominent, such as Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Jan Groover, and Joel Sternfeld, to key figures of the period, including Eve Sonneman, Neal Slavin, John Pfahl, and Barbara Kasten. Organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum. The
exhibition at Cincinnati was presented with the generous support of the Carl Jacobs Foundation, Fund Evaluation Group, and LPK. At
Princeton, further support has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Program Fund for American Art, the Frances E. and Elias Wolf Fund, and the Partners and Friends of the Princeton University Art Museum. |
 Feel the Funk Starburst Opening Celebration
Thursday, July 15, 5 to 8 p.m.
Jump up, get down, and journey through a decade of grooves with New York DJ Bobbito García, as we celebrate the opening of Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980. Wine, refreshments, and the boogie will be served. As always, Museum events are free and open to the public.
Be Late. Be Cool. Summer at the Art Museum. |
 William Merritt Chase
Residing amid the dunes of Southampton, Long Island, where in 1891 he founded the Shinnecock Summer School of Art, renowned American painter William Merritt Chase produced effervescent embodiments of perfect summer moments, such as the Museum's Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island (ca. 1896), on view in the Mary Ellen Bowen Gallery. This exquisitely balanced image combines the artist's favorite subject matter--landscape and the sympathetic depiction of the leisure class--in a style encapsulating his view that "Art transcends Nature."
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Credits (top to bottom):
Princeton University Art Museum
Photo: Bruce M. White
Childe
Hassam, American, 1859-1935
Rainy Day, Fifth Avenue, 1916
Oil on canvas, 46.0 x 39.0 cm.
Gift of Albert E. McVitty, Class of 1898
(y1942-62)
(photo: Bruce M. White)
Mitch Epstein, American, born 1952
Madison Avenue, New York City
1973, printed later
Dye transfer print, 40.6 x 50.8 cm.
Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
© Black River Productions, Ltd./Mitch Epstein. Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins &
Co., New York. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Stephen Shore, American, born 1947
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, August 13, 1974
1974, printed later
Chromogenic print, 50.8 x 61.0 cm.
Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York
© Stephen Shore, Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York
William Merritt Chase, American, 1849-1916
Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island, ca. 1896
Oil on wood panel, 36.3 x 40.9 cm.
Gift of Francis A. Comstock, Class of 1919
(y1939-35)
(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
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