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American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting February 26 - May 13, 2012 This exhibition features 116 paintings by 71 artists who took New York’s Hudson River Valley as their primary subject, pioneering the country’s first native artistic style. Founded in 1825 by Thomas Cole, members of the Hudson River School included Frederic E. Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Asher B. Durand, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson Gifford, among others. For over fifty years, the group drew inspiration and meaning from America’s landscape, sharing a belief in natural religion, an awe of the magnificence of nature, and the notion that the country’s untamed wilderness reflected its national character. American Scenery is the first exhibition to explore the Hudson River School’s practice of creating pairs, series, and groupings of thematically related works that were intended to be seen together. American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting is organized and toured by the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA. Support for the exhibition at The Blanton is provided by George and Nicole Jeffords. The Collecting Impulse: Fifty Works from Dorothy and Herbert Vogel June 10 - August 19, 2012 Richard Tuttle Dallas (9 Pencil Lines), 1970 Watercolor and graphite Blanton Museum of Art, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint Initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008.93 In 2008, The Blanton was selected by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C and by Dorothy and Herbert Vogel as the only museum in Texas to receive fifty works of art through The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a national gift program distributing 2,500 works from the Vogels’ expansive collection to museums across the nation. The Blanton’s exhibition of its fifty gifts will explore the collecting passions of this spirited and highly informed couple of relatively modest means. Among the works to be featured are those by artists Stephen Antonakos, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Elizabeth Murray, Lynda Benglis, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Richard Tuttle. Fifty Works for Fifty States, is a joint Initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa Upcoming Exhibitions Past Exhibitions Members: Join/Renew Now Directions & Parking Calendar eNewsletter sign-up Press Sitemap Contact Us