| Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism September 25, 2008 - January 4, 2009 Composed of masterpieces from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism explores the unities of style, color, and light in this all-important international movement. Featuring works by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Eugène-Louis Boudin, John Singer Sargent, George Inness, Childe Hassam, Camille Pissaro, Gustave Courbet, and their peers, this exhibition of 40 works further explores the development of modernist sensibilities in the plein-air easel traditions of France and the United States. Maine Sunday Telegram feature story 09/25/08. Podcast: Listen to Chief Curator Tom Denenberg talk about the exhibition. | ![]() Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Les Vignes à Cagnes (The Vineyards at Cagnes), 1908, oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches, Brooklyn Museum. Gift of Colonel and Mrs. E.W. Garbisch. |
| André Kertész: On Reading August 30, 2008 - November 16, 2008 This exhibition celebrates a series of 89 photographs made by internationally renowned photographer André Kertész (1894–1985). Taken in Hungary, France, and the United States during a 50-year period, Kertész’s photographs illustrate his love for the poetry and choreography of life reflected in public as well as private moments, tapping the power of reading as a universal pleasure. The photographs in the exhibition are drawn from the collection of Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago. André Kertész: On Reading is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago. The exhibition tour is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions (CATE), Pasadena, California. Podcast: Listen to Curator Susan Danly talk about the exhibition. Boston Sunday Globe review 09/21/08 View Image Gallery | ![]() André Kertész (American, born Austria-Hungary, 1894-1985), New York (boy eating ice cream on a pile of newspapers), 1944,© Courtesy Estate of André Kertész/Higher Pictures 2007. |
| American Menagerie August 16, 2008 - November 9, 2008 From the earliest examples of American art until the present day, images of animals serve as vehicles for meaning. Native and exotic creatures alike help artists to explore issues of identity: the quality and nature of being American or foreign, human or beast, wild or civilized, innocent or worldly. These are all issues that artists grapple with in American Menagerie. Featuring 25 works drawn primarily from the Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition features artists such as Dahlov Ipcar, Bernard Langlais, Will Barnet, Wendy Kindred, Scott Leighton, and Edward Hicks. Listen to podcasts about the exhibition. View Image Gallery | ![]() Dahlov Ipcar (United States, born 1917), Bright Barnyard, 1965, oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches, Portland Museum of Art. |























