For quite a while the Museum has been planning for its 70th anniversary. So it should be no surprise that I have been thinking a lot about our first director […]
Continue ReadingAAM 2011 Update
I just returned from the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, TX. I visited museums, talked with numerous colleagues and sat through several amazing sessions. […]
Continue ReadingConservation… yes we can!
Yesterday the curator and I retrieved two paintings from the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s conservation lab. They had been sent to conservation because one had an abrasion and both were […]
Continue ReadingI wonder what Wright would think
Working on the Samara House exhibition sparked my memory of childhood visits to Chicago and Wisconsin. I had cousins and grandparents there and spent significant time with them. We often […]
Continue ReadingNotes from American Art 101, Edmond Brucker, Ghost Town, Colorado
I chose this painting as a bridge between the current exhibition of work by Todd Anderson “The Mountains are Shadows” and our upcoming season of Frank Lloyd Wright inspired programs. […]
Continue Readingthoughts on annual juried exhibitions
Here is a photo of Gregory Gilbert (in front of “Beam in One’s Eye” by Jackie Tice) while he was in the Museum selecting awards as juror of the Annual […]
Continue ReadingNew Swope Exhibition, Still Life: Quiet Revelation
Varaldo Cariani, Bowl of Zinnias, 1962 A new exhibition of still life paintings from the Swope Art Museum collection has opened at the Museum and is on view through August […]
Continue ReadingEncounters with two paintings and a conservator
The first thing I used to think of when I heard the word tempera was that powdered paint we used in elementary school. Of course I didn’t know then that […]
Continue ReadingAnnual Student Exhibition–Juror & Process
Once again the Swope Art Museum is proudly hosting the Annual Student Exhibition. An institution in itself, this exhibition has been recurring for forty-three years! That’s longer than any of […]
Continue ReadingMary Fairchild MacMonnies heads South
Mary Fairchild MacMonnies’ “Garden in Giverny” has gone out on loan for a three venue traveling exhibition. The first object from the Swope Collection on loan for the 2010 exhibition […]
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