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| A New Look for the Nineteenth-Century Galleries | |
 The Museum's nineteenth-century galleries--home to beloved masterpieces by artists including Monet, Van Gogh, and Cézanne--are getting a new look, such as a new selection of artworks featuring photographs, prints, and drawings from the period, and enhanced didactic materials providing rich contextual insights.
The galleries are currently closed for this work, but will reopen August 28, with all work completed by September 4. In the meantime, watch a short video featuring Caroline Harris, curator of education and academic programming, to learn more about the project. |
Gauguin's Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints
September 25, 2010 - January 2, 2011
 Among the exhibitions that anchor the Museum's fall season is this groundbreaking look at the printmaking of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). The ten woodcuts Gauguin produced in Paris in 1893-94 to illustrate his book Noa Noa (Fragrance) recount his experiences from his first Tahitian voyage and paraphrase major themes from Gauguin's Tahitian paintings, reproducing the symbolic spirit of his Polynesian paradise in dark and brooding images.
The exhibition will only be seen in Princeton, so be sure this fascinating and intimate exhibition is part of your fall!
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 The flat, almost cartoonlike conventions of Mixteca-Puebla manuscript painting come to life in three dimensions on this important effigy vessel. With minimal application of modeled forms--head, wing feathers, and tail--a plump raptor emerges from a simple tripod vessel. The artist has taken great care to render distinct plumage types, with long, pointed wing tips, variegated breast feathers, and u-shaped motifs referring to down.
This vessel is one of the many treasures to be discovered in the Galleries of the Ancient Americas on the Museum's lower level.
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 Thanks to you and many friends from on and off campus, our summer programming has been a great success. Hundreds joined us for our first-ever outdoor film series, and over 700 guests participated in the July celebration of our summer exhibitions.
We're taking a short break in events until the new academic year commences (though the galleries will remain open on Thursday evenings until 10 p.m.), but mark your calendars now for the second annual Nassau Street Sampler on Thursday, September 16. Last year's kick-off event brought record numbers to the Museum, so plan on coming early to enjoy free nibbles and sips of the very best that Nassau Street (and beyond) has to offer, along with live performances, t-shirt giveaways, and more! Meanwhile, visit our Facebook photo album from the 2009 Nassau Street Sampler.
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 Grab your very own magnet man to keep you company wherever you choose to pose him. We're partial to orange, of course, but he and a little brother, the mini magnet man, come in a range of colors. Or, get the rubber luggage tag magnet man for $12.95, to help you identify your bag quickly among the sea of black suitcases at the airport. One of a host of fun finds at the Museum Store this summer! $3.95 to $12.95, Friends member price $3.55 to $11.65 |
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Credits (top to bottom):
Princeton University Art Museum (photo: Bruce M. White)
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, British, 1833-1898. Made by William Morris & Co. London, England, 1874-1905. Saint Cecilia, ca. 1900. Stained and painted glass; 213.5 x 75.5 cm. Museum purchase, Surdna Fund (y1974-84) (photo: Bruce M. White)
Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903. Auti te pape (Women at the River) from the Noa Noa suite, 1894. Woodcut printed from one block in orange and black, respectively, over yellow, pink, orange, blue, and green on laminated cream Japanese paper; sheet trimmed to block: 20.3 x 35.3 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collections [1948.264] © The Art Institute of Chicago
Mixteca-Puebla, Mexico. Eagle effigy vessel, Late Postclassic, ca. A.D. 1450. Ceramic with polychrome slip; h. 20.9 cm., w. 21.5 cm. Museum purchase, bequest of Gilbert S. McClintock, by exchange (y1990-13) (photo: Bruce M. White)
2009 Nassau Street Sampler (photo: Frank Wojciechowski)
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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