Dead Blogging 'Fabricating Modernism' at the Currier Museum

Well the Missus and I trundled up to the Granite State over the weekend to check out the newly installed exhibits at Manchester’s Currier Museum of Art and say, they were swell. We started at Fabricating Modernism: Prints from the School of Paris (through January 7), which features artworks that “constitute a small portion of an extensive collection of prints committed to the Currier Museum of…

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The Favorite Cat, Nathaniel Currier, 1838-48

Hand-colored lithograph 12 3/16 x 8 11/16 in. (31 x 22 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA

Currier and Ives, Central Park in Winter, 1868/1894, lithograph (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Thank you to @abrubag for helping me make this very important compilation:

1. The Peacemakers, George P.A. Healy, Oval Office. 1868. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peacemakers

2. George Washington before the Battle of Trenton, John Trumbull, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1792. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12823

3. Battle of Port Hudson, J.O. Davis, Library of Congress. 1887. https://www.loc.gov/item/93510334/

4. A Good Chance, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Yale University. 1862. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_Fitzwilliam_Tait_-_A_Good_Chance_-_1932.244_-_Yale_University_Art_Gallery.jpg

5. Battle of Kenesaw Mountian, Kurz & Allison (chromolithograph publishers), Library of Congress. 1891. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Kenesaw_Mountian.png

6. The capture of General Vega (In the act of discharging a canon) by the gallant Capt. May, of the U.S. Army, during the engagement of the 9th May / / Lith. & pub. by Sarony & Major, 117 Fulton St. N.Y.! Library of Congress. 1846. https://loc.getarchive.net/media/the-capture-of-general-vega-in-the-act-of-discharging-a-canon-by-the-gallant

7. Benjamin Franklin: The statesman and philosopher. Currier & Ives. 1846. https://loc.getarchive.net/media/benjamin-franklin-the-statesman-and-philosopher

8. Watson and the Shark, John Singleton Copley. Museum of Fine Arts Boston. 1778. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/30998/watson-and-the-shark

9. George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait), Gilbert Stuart. National Portrait Gallery. 1796. https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2001.13

Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Chart, Lithograph on paper published by Currier & Ives, New York City, 1881 - detail. Courtesy Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York,

Judith Leyster, Boy Holding Grapes and a Hat, around 1630. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire.

MANCHESTER, NH.- Judith Leyster was the first woman to be admitted to a professional artistic guild. She was also one of the most expressive and innovative painters of the 17th century. Alan Chong, director of the Currier Museum, states: “The acquisition of this innovative painting by Judith Leyster fulfills our wish to highlight an important woman artist in our historical collection. The Currier Museum owns powerful works of art by contemporary women, including Joan Mitchell, Marisol, and Faith Ringgold, but this is the Currier’s first work by a woman painter from the 17th century.”

Leyster mastered an original style to capture scenes of everyday life. Her quick brushwork perfectly suits figures which appear in motion. In this painting, the boy’s tilted head and open mouth seem spontaneous. Moreover, the subject of a laughing boy holding a bunch of grapes and a hat is a unique subject in art history, which suggests that it was a scene the artist saw.

An exceptionally rare artist

Fewer than twenty works can be securely attributed to Judith Leyster. During the Renaissance and Baroque eras, women were denied the same opportunities allowed men. Along with the Italian painter Artemisia Gentilleschi and the Dutch still-life artist Rachel Ruysch, Judith Leyster was one of a handful of women to break the gender restrictions of her time. Leyster was highly praised in the official histories of the Dutch city of Haarlem.

Red Skelton’s comic painting

The famed TV comedian Red Skelton owned Boy Holding Grapes and a Hat in the 1950s, no doubt drawn to the boy’s lively and humorous expression. The painting was given to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1955, but was sold in 1977. The painting was lost for forty years until it appeared earlier this year, when it was discovered by the noted Dutch dealer Salomon Lilian.

Courtesy Alain Truong

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