Winslow Homer: Illustrating America features more than 100 prints from illustrated weeklies and journals by the renowned American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910). Illustrating America provides an overview of Homer's rich career as an illustrator while offering thematic studies of American life as revealed through the artist's images. This exhibition presents work that spans two decades of American history, recording and reflecting the hopes, anxieties, and mundane concerns of a nation during a period of significant social and political change.
? On view through December 2009
Winslow Homer: Illustrating America is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.
Image credits: (banner) Winslow Homer, The Artist in the Country, 1869, Wood engraving, Brooklyn Museum Collection; (right) Winslow Homer, The Dinner Horn, 1870, Wood engraving, Brooklyn Museum Collection
New Look, Same Great Taste! explores ten years of the acquisitions that have both enlarged and enriched the museum's permanent collection with the addition of works by both well-established and emerging artists.
On display will be paintings, sculptures and works on paper by artists such as Leonard Baskin, Richard Bosman, Enrique Chagoya, Richard Florsheim, Sam Gilliam, Alex Katz, Janelle Lynch, Sue Miller, Ed Paschke, Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, John Ross, Clare Romano, Larry Rivers, Andres Serrano, and Mark Tobey.
? On view through August 2010
Image credits: (top) Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Survival Series: Tribe, 1996, Lithograph with chine colle, Jersey City Museum Collection; (bottom) Mark Dean Veca, Untitled (part of LESP Benefit Portfolio 2002), 2002, Screenprint, Jersey City Museum Collection
Artist Jin Lin's intricate paper sculptures playfully evoke the rich history of cut paper, the natural world, and traditional Asian landscape painting. Jersey City Museum commissioned the Jersey City artist to create a complex site-specific installation that occupies the museum's Project Gallery, where visitors will be able to fully experience the work while walking through the space.
? On view through February 2010
Image credit: Jin Lee, A Paper Landscape (detail of installation), 2009, Cut paper, Courtesy of the artist
Hudson Views celebrates the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the river that now bears his name. This exhibition focuses on prints depicting river scenes, which were published during the late nineteenth century. On public view for the very first time is an original copy of the deed of purchase by the Associates of the Jersey Company for a substantial portion of the Van Vorst family's land holdings. The document, executed in 1804, marks the first of several mergers of surrounding villages and settlements into what would later become the "City of Jersey."
? On view through December 2009
The museum remains grateful to Hudson County Executive, Thomas A. DeGise, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders for loaning significant works from Hudson County's archives for Hudson Views, and for supporting the exhibition and interpretive programs. We also thank William LaRosa and the Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development for helping to organize the exhibition and programs.
Image credit: Unknown Artist, New Jersey. Shad-Fishing in the North River?Setting the Poles Near Weehawken, 1888, Frank Leslie?s Illustrated, Engraving, Hudson County Department of Cultural and Heritage Affairs Collection
1x1 PROJECTS
? On view through December 2009
Jason Burch: Interior Dimensions
Filmed in construction sites, Interior Dimensions is a series of deadpan videos showcasing the dark side of the recent housing boom and the pitfalls of residential sprawl.
Brian Gustafson: Phone Booth
This handmade sculpture installed in the museum's atrium makes the visitor more sensitive to the changing experience of everyday living, quietly recalling a lost icon of American culture: the glass telephone booth.
Natalie McKeever: Outside of Time Outside of Time is an animated video composed of magazine cutouts that create a psychedelic kaleidoscope of light, saturated color, and funky shapes.
ALSO ON VIEW: Priscila De Carvalho: Passageways
? On view through October 17, 2009
This colorful and large-scale installation, influenced by modern life in Brazil, conveys the complexity of urban life during the age of globalization.
Image credits: (from top) Jason Burch, Interior Dimensions (video still), Courtesy of the artist; Brian Gustafson, Phone Booth, Courtesy of the artist; Natalie McKeever, Outside of Time (video still), 2006, Courtesy of the artist; Priscila De Carvalho, Passageways, 2009, Courtesy of the artist
Jersey City Museum remains grateful to the City of Jersey City, Mayor Jerramiah Healy, and the Municipal Council for their continuing major support. The museum also receives major funding for its exhibitions and programs from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, the County of Hudson, Thomas A. De Gise, County Executive, the Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and Bank of America. Additional funding is provided by many other generous corporate, foundation and individual donors, and our museum members.
Winslow Homer: Illustrating America is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.
