Current Exhibitions

The Art of Devotion: Panel Painting in Early Renaissance Italy

September 18–December 13, 2009

At heart a collaborative venture, the creation of early fifteenth-century panel paintings in Italy depended upon a tight network of connections between patrons, painters, woodworkers, and gilders. The product of these interactions was an object that served both as a focus for devotion, and as an emphatic statement about wealth and status.

Prints and Prejudice: Woodcuts and Artifacts of the American Civil War

September 4–December 13, 2009

This exhibition will highlight the illustrations of Winslow Homer, Thomas Nast, A.R. Waud, and several other talented but anonymous artists as well as showcasing a variety of related artifacts and daguerreotypes. The exhibit was researched and organized by the students of Professor Christopher Wilson’s First Year Seminar “The Art and Life of Winslow Homer.”

Ancient Mediterranean and Early European Art

Lower Gallery
Ongoing

On view in this updated and revised installation are recent acquisitions in Egyptian and Mesopotamian art as well as Greek, Roman, and medieval European objects from the Museum’s permanent collection. Highlights include an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting.

European and American Art

Cerf Gallery
Ongoing

This installation, which changes regularly, features highlights of the Museum’s collection of Western art from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. Landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett are on view alongside sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture.

Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art

Ongoing

This installation features a wide range of East Asian ceramics, including Chinese ceramic funerary sculpture from the Han (206 B.C.E.–220 C.E.) to Tang (618–906) dynasties, celadons and other wares of the Song dynasty (960–1279), and blue-and-white enameled porcelains of the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties. Korean celadons and Japanese tea ceremony wares will also be represented.