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Drawn to Modernism: Selected Gifts from Wright S. Ludington
Apr 16, 2011 - Jul 24, 2011
In honor of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s 70th anniversary, this exhibition celebrates the legacy of Wright S. Ludington (1901-1992), one of the Museum’s founders and a collector whose wide-ranging interests and keen eye played a central role in shaping the permanent collection.
Curated by SBMA Curatorial Research Fellow Rachel Sloan, this exhibition focuses on an area of Ludington’s collection that, due to its fragile nature, has historically received less exposure: European modernist drawings and prints. A selection of approximately 45 works on paper, complemented by a small number of sculptures, showcases the breadth and independent spirit of Ludington’s impeccable taste, from classical modernists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and André Derain to British artists whose work was seldom collected in the United States: Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland and Percy Wyndham Lewis.
Rather than display the prints and drawings in chronological order or by national school, the installation will evoke the elegant, harmonious way that Ludington displayed his collections in his own home.
Curated by SBMA Curatorial Research Fellow Rachel Sloan, this exhibition focuses on an area of Ludington’s collection that, due to its fragile nature, has historically received less exposure: European modernist drawings and prints. A selection of approximately 45 works on paper, complemented by a small number of sculptures, showcases the breadth and independent spirit of Ludington’s impeccable taste, from classical modernists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and André Derain to British artists whose work was seldom collected in the United States: Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland and Percy Wyndham Lewis.
Rather than display the prints and drawings in chronological order or by national school, the installation will evoke the elegant, harmonious way that Ludington displayed his collections in his own home.
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Curated by SBMA Curatorial Research Fellow Rachel Sloan, this exhibition focuses on an area of Ludington’s collection that, due to its fragile nature, has historically received less exposure: European modernist drawings and prints. A selection of approximately 45 works on paper, complemented by a small number of sculptures, showcases the breadth and independent spirit of Ludington’s impeccable taste, from classical modernists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and André Derain to British artists whose work was seldom collected in the United States: Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland and Percy Wyndham Lewis.
Rather than display the prints and drawings in chronological order or by national school, the installation will evoke the elegant, harmonious way that Ludington displayed his collections in his own home.
Curated by SBMA Curatorial Research Fellow Rachel Sloan, this exhibition focuses on an area of Ludington’s collection that, due to its fragile nature, has historically received less exposure: European modernist drawings and prints. A selection of approximately 45 works on paper, complemented by a small number of sculptures, showcases the breadth and independent spirit of Ludington’s impeccable taste, from classical modernists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and André Derain to British artists whose work was seldom collected in the United States: Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland and Percy Wyndham Lewis.
Rather than display the prints and drawings in chronological order or by national school, the installation will evoke the elegant, harmonious way that Ludington displayed his collections in his own home.
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