SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS SEPTEMBER—DECEMBER 2002

American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Highlights from the Collection, 1710–1890
September 3–December 1, 2002
Some 100 highlights from the Metropolitan's exceptional collection of American drawings and watercolors are displayed in The Erving and Joyce Wolf Gallery. The exhibition celebrates the publication of volume 1 of American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes works from the Museum's own holdings by artists born before 1835. The accompanying publication is made possible through the support of the William Cullen Bryant Fellows.

Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions 1991–2002
September 4, 2002–June 29, 2003
This exhibition celebrates more than a decade of acquisitions made since the reinstallation of the Arms and Armor Galleries in 1991. Although high-quality works are becoming increasingly rare, a number of important gifts and purchases have significantly enriched the Museum's renowned collection of European, North American, Japanese, and Islamic arms, increasing its depth and breadth as well as its appeal to scholars and the public alike. Major acquisitions, as well as curatorial purchases of more modest value, are highlighted, and newly explored areas of collecting such as Tibetan arms and armor are presented for the first time.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Cultivated Landscapes: Reflections of Nature in Chinese Painting
with Selections from the Collection of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill
September 10, 2002–February 9, 2003
In no other cultural tradition has landscape played a more important role in the arts than in that of China. This exhibition, consisting of more than 75 works drawn largely from the Metropolitan Museum's holdings and featuring selections from the renowned collection of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill, explores the manifold uses of natural imagery in Chinese painting as a reflection of human beliefs and emotions. The exhibition begins in the 10th century, when landscape painting became an independent genre in China and images of life in reclusion took on a new immediacy as members of society dreamed of finding sanctuary from a disintegrating social order following the collapse of the Tang dynasty. It then moves through the next millennium of Chinese painting, revealing how select flowers and plants may symbolize moral virtues; landscapes celebrating the natural order might laud the well-governed state; wilderness hermitages can suggest political isolation or protest; and gardens may be emblems of an ideal world. One gallery in the exhibition is devoted to paintings given or promised to the Metropolitan Museum by New York collectors Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill and presents major works by masters of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Complementing the display of paintings is a choice group of objects that celebrate landscape and garden imagery in other media.
The exhibition is made possible by The Dillon Fund.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
Press viewing: Monday, September 30, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Portraits: A Century of Photographs
September 10, 2002–January 12, 2003
Designed to complement the Museum's landmark exhibition Richard Avedon: Portraits, this selection of some 50 masterworks surveys the first hundred years of photographic portraiture, from early American and French daguerreotypes through the work of Diane Arbus. The installation highlights classic images of artists and writers, actors and composers, by Nadar, Edward Steichen, and Berenice Abbott, among others. Drawn from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Gilman Paper Company.
Press viewing: Monday, September 23, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Cityscapes by Klee and Feininger
September 25, 2002–January 26, 2003
This installation displays images of cities—German, North African, American, or imaginary—evoked by the two Bauhaus colleagues and friends Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger. The 24 works, mainly watercolors, drawings, and some paintings, spanning more than 40 years, are all from the Museum's collection.

Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes:
The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections
October 1, 2002–January 5, 2003
This exhibition presents the dynamic art of the nomads who roamed the Eastern Eurasian steppes during the first millennium B.C. and influenced the art of the sedentary cultures that came in contact with them. Drawn largely from the collection of Eugene V. Thaw, with selections from other private collections and the Metropolitan Museum's holdings, the more than 200 works in bronze, gold, and silver include horse tack and harness fittings, chariot fittings, belt ornaments, garment plaques, weapons, and vessels that are characterized by bold designs and skilled craftsmanship.
The exhibition is made possible in part by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families.
Press preview: Monday, September 30, 10:00 a.m.–noon

The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection
October 1, 2002–March 2, 2003
This exhibition displays 60 works of Japanese calligraphy and painting, spanning a period of more than 1,000 years, drawn from the exceptional collection of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto. The collection—which traces the evolution of Japanese calligraphy from the Nara period (710–784) through the 19th century—includes examples of both the Chinese script (kanji) and the Japanese script (kana). Also included are Buddhist and Shinto mandalas and a portrait of a Zen monk. The presentation of the Barnet and Burto Collection is supplemented by a selection of Japanese paintings and calligraphy from the Metropolitan's holdings.
The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are made possible in part by the Toshiba International Foundation.
Additional support for the exhibition has been provided by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York, Inc.
Additional support for this publication has been provided by the Roswell L. Gilpatric Fund for Publications.
Press preview: Monday, September 30, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Arts of the Spanish Americas, 1550–1850: Works from the Museum's Collection
October 11, 2002–April 6, 2003
A sampling of the Museum's holdings of secular and religious arts made in colonial Latin America. Drawn from the collections of several departments, this installation highlights the creativity of artists working under Spanish rule, from the Rio Grande to the Andes, from the period of evangelization through Independence. The installation will include a selection of the Museum's comprehensive collection of Mexican glazed ceramic ware known as Talavera de Puebla, Mexican and Andean textiles and silver, painting and polychrome sculpture from all over the Spanish-speaking Americas and the Philippines, and a group of wooden keros, the traditional ceremonial drinking vessels of the Andes.
The installation is made possible by Paula Cussi.

The Prints of Vija Celmins
October 15–December 29, 2002
Although she is best known for her intensely realistic paintings and drawings, Vija Celmins (American, born in Latvia, 1938) has been engaged with the print medium since the early 1960s. Celmins relies on traditional intaglio, lithographic, and relief processes to produce quiet images of ocean surfaces, desert floors, and star-filled night skies that eschew conventional composition. Instead of relating a narrative, she renders the details of our natural environment through a painstaking exploration of process and mark. This exhibition, comprising some 50 works including a selection of drawings and artists' books, is the first museum retrospective of Celmins's printed work. A catalogue featuring an interview with the artist and two of her closest collaborators, master printers Leslie Miller and Doris Simmelink, accompanies the exhibition.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by Mr. and Mrs. Derald H. Ruttenberg and the Mary C. and James W. Fosburgh Publications Fund.

Blithe Spirit: The Windsor Set
November 1, 2002–February 9, 2003
A remarkable collection of French couture including Chanels, Lanvins, Vionnets, and Schiaparellis donated to the Museum in 1946 captures the rapturous elegance of café society in the frivolous, extravagant years immediately preceding World War II. Dating from 1935 to 1940, this group of evening gowns formed part of an earlier exhibition in 1940 organized by Lady Mendl and chaired by the Duchess of Windsor to benefit French War Charities.
At a time when fashion required an appropriate backdrop, the exhibition situates these romantic and spectacular evening gowns within the larger context of the fine and decorative arts of the period. This close relationship between fashion and interior design is expressed through works by Jansen, Emilio Terry, and Jean Michel Franck. At the same time, drawings by Vertès, Beaton, and Bérard, along with photographs by Horst, Man Ray, and Hoyningen-Huene, reveal the high style of the times. A centerpiece of the exhibition is the Mainbocher dress worn by Wallis Simpson upon her marriage to the Duke of Windsor in 1937.
Press preview: Thursday, October 31, 10:00 a.m.–noon

A Very Private Collection: Janice H. Levin's Impressionist Pictures
November 19, 2002–February 9, 2003
This intimate exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to see some 35 Impressionist works that graced the Fifth Avenue apartment of Janice H. Levin. Highlights include Claude Monet's views of his garden at Argenteuil and of the cliffs at Pourville; pastels and sculpture by Edgar Degas; lush landscapes by Pierre Bonnard, Eugène Boudin, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; and interiors by Morisot and Édouard Vuillard. This exhibition reveals the distinctly personal character of a collection lovingly acquired for a private home. Levin (1913–2001) was an Honorary Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1993 until her death.
The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are made possible by The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation.
Press preview: Monday, November 18, 10:00–noon

French Nineteenth-Century Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection
November 19, 2002–February 9, 2003
Organized to coincide with the publication of the Robert Lehman Collection catalogue of European 19th- and 20th-century drawings, this exhibition touches on many of the great trends in French drawing of the time: the heroic neoclassicism of David, refined classicism of Ingres, and Romanticism of Delacroix; the richly textured landscapes of the Barbizon School; the figure studies of Degas and Renoir; Seurat's luminous sheets of shaded crayon, and the jewel-like watercolors of Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross. The selection captures another facet of the taste of a great American collector famous for the range and depth of his interests across the entire history of European art.
The exhibition is made possible by Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
Press preview: Monday, November 18, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture
November 19, 2002–April 13, 2003
How did the world begin? What is our ancestry? What is the source of agriculture and of kingship, and other societal institutions? African cultures seek to provide answers to these questions through elaborate interwoven traditions of oral history, poetry, and art. Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture explores how artists in 17 distinct African cultures have interpreted these ideas and sought to answer these questions. Within that framework, the exhibition explores in depth the nuanced complexity of one noteworthy classical sculptural form, the ci wara antelope headdress of the Bamana people. The exhibition includes 40 exceptional ci wara headdresses, as well as 35 noted masterpieces from across sub-Saharan Africa inspired by distinctive myths of origin ranging from the Dogon of Mali, the Senufo of Côte d'Ivoire, and the Yoruba of Nigeria to the Luba and Kuba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Chokwe of Angola, and the Ntwane of South Africa.
Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture seeks to shed light on the act of human creation as a broad and recurrent theme of African art. While the works of African art included relate to a panoply of social perspectives and traditions, they all reflect a desire to give tangible form to the abstract forces that have shaped the course of human experience. The works of art chosen constitute points of reference that allow individuals to conceive of their place within an expansive history. The artists who executed them have responded to their society's most exalted challenge and in doing so provide insight into their distinctive worldview.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
Press preview: Monday, November 18, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Hanukkah Menorah
November 25, 2002–January 5, 2003
One of the oldest symbols of the Jewish faith, this elaborately decorated 18th-century menorah on loan from a renowned private collection marks the holiday season.

Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
Late November 2002–early January 2003
The Museum continues a long-standing holiday tradition with the annual presentation of its Christmas tree, a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. A vivid 18th-century Neapolitan crèche scene—embellished with a profuse array of diminutive, lifelike attendant figures and silk-robed angels hovering above—adorns the candlelit spruce. Recorded music adds to the enjoyment of the holiday display. Lighting ceremony Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:00.
The installation is made possible by The Loretta Hines Howard Trust.

Significant Objects from the Modern Design Collection
Late November 2002–April 2004
On display is a rotating selection of approximately 30 works in all media spanning from the late 19th to the early 21st century. Examples of furniture, metalwork, silver, ceramics, and glass—by designers such as Christopher Dresser, Josef Hoffmann, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Georges Fouquet, Carlo Scarpa, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Ettore Sottsass, and Wendell Castle—are shown for their significance, both in art-historical terms and in the context of the Museum's collection.

Chinese Export Porcelain at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
January 14–July 13, 2003
On display will be 80 works from the Museum's important collection of Chinese porcelain made for export to both Europe and America. The selection of objects, dating from the early 16th century to the last quarter of the 19th century, will include bowls and vases, services and tureens, reverse glass paintings, and works in ivory.

African-American Artists, 1929–1945:
Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
January 14–May 4, 2003
More than 80 works by African American artists—drawn exclusively from the collection of the Metropolitan—will feature prints by Robert Blackburn, Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, Raymond Steth, and Dox Thrash, among others, as well as paintings and watercolors by Jacob Lawrence, Joseph Delaney, Lois Mailou Jones, Horace Pippin, Romare Bearden, Samuel Joseph Brown, Palmer Hayden, and Bill Traylor. Focusing on the years 1929–45, the selection reflects aspects of daily life for African-Americans during the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression and New Deal era, and World War II.
The exhibition is made possible in part by Jane and Robert Carroll.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
Press preview: Monday, January 13, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Thomas Struth
February 4–May 18, 2003
This major retrospective will feature 80 stunning photographs by one of today's leading contemporary artists, whose body of work is of truly global reach and ambition. Ranging from early black-and-white views of city streets in the United States and Europe to recent, large-scale views of primeval jungles and forests in Asia and South America, Struth's photographs are distinctive portraits of place that show the actual condition of our world's cultures and traditions on the cusp of a new millennium. The exhibition will highlight his celebrated "Museum" series—monumental pictures of people visiting museums, churches, and other cultural destinations around the world that reconcile the timeless and the ephemeral, the real and the spiritual ideal. Also included will be his mesmerizing individual and family portraits, landscapes, and rapturous flower studies. Accompanying the exhibition will be a spectacular projection of Struth's one-hour video portraits in the Museum's Great Hall—an unprecedented honor for any artist. Complementing this exhibition will be a related display of works by Struth that present an expanded view of his classic black-and-white streetscapes. Included will be the seminal "Streets of New York" portfolio, not seen in its entirety since 1978, as well as photographs from the 1980s made in the great cities of Europe and Asia—portraits of place that capture the irreducible character and visible history of our urban environments.
The Thomas Struth exhibition is made possible in part by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund.
The exhibition was organized by the Dallas Museum of Art.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Klee the Voyager
February 4–May 4, 2003
A selection of works recording the artist's forays into regions exotic, domestic, and imagined. The 25 images, mainly watercolors and some paintings spanning the years 1914 to 1937, are all from The Berggruen Klee Collection at the Museum.

Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
March 4–June 8, 2003
This exhibition will examine the impact of Spanish painting on French artists, presenting some 150 paintings by masters of Spain's Golden Age—Velázquez, Murillo, Ribera, El Greco, and Zurbarán—and the 19th-century French artists they influenced, among them Delacroix, Courbet, Millet, Degas, and, most notably, Manet. An exhibition on this subject has never before been attempted at this scale and depth, and it promises to be revelatory. Napoleon's Spanish campaigns (1808–14) marked a turning point in the French perception of Spanish painting, which, up to that time, had been virtually ignored and poorly represented in the French royal collections. Yet, only two decades later, in 1838, King Louis Philippe inaugurated the Galerie Espagnole at the Louvre, placing on view his extraordinary collection of hundreds of Spanish paintings. Although this collection was sold in 1853, these paintings left an indelible impression in France and by the 1860s, the French taste for Spanish painting was perceptible at each Paris Salon. In New York, the exhibition will also include works by American artists such as Sargent, Chase, Eakins, Whistler, and Cassatt, who studied in France but learned to paint like Spaniards.
A special feature devoted to the exhibition will be available on the Metropolitan Museum's Web site.
Accenture is the proud sponsor of the exhibition.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Musée d'Orsay.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
Press preview: Monday, February 24, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Goddess
May 1–August 3, 2003
From the Greek-inspired draping of Madame Grès to the chain-mail togas of Gianni Versace, this Costume Institute exhibition will explore how the classical dress of ancient Greece and Rome profoundly influenced art and design in the millennia that followed. Drawing on paintings, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from classical times to the present, cinema and theater costumes, as well as fashions from the 18th century onward, the exhibition will reveal the many ways in which classical dress has become a truly ageless style. Included, for example, will be clothing from the Empire and Directoire periods, presented alongside art from the Museum's collection by Nattier, David, and Ingres, and 20th-century fashions by such major designers as Vionnet, Yves St. Laurent, Fortuny, Tom Ford, Alexander McQueen, and Issey Miyake, juxtaposed with costumes created for Isadora Duncan's modern dance performances and for films such as Medea and Gladiator.
The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue are made possible by GUCCI.
Additional support for the exhibition has been provided by Condé Nast.
Press preview: Monday, April 28, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden
May 1–late fall 2003, weather permitting
A selection of modern works will be installed in the most dramatic outdoor space for sculpture in New York City: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, which offers a spectacular view of Central Park and the New York City skyline. Beverage and sandwich service will be available from 10:00 a.m. until closing, including Friday and Saturday evenings.

Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus
May 8–August 17, 2003
This exhibition will explore through art the emergence of the world's first city-states and empires in Syria and Mesopotamia during the third millennium B.C. and will relate these developments to artistic and cultural connections stretching from the eastern Aegean to the Indus valley and Central Asia. The works of art, many brought together for the first time, illustrate the splendor of the most famous sites of the ancient world including the Royal Graves of Ur, the palace and temples of Mari, the citadel of Troy, and the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization. The exhibition will include approximately 400 works of extraordinary sculpture, jewelry, seals, relief carving, metalwork, and cuneiform tablets.
The exhibition is made possible by Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman.
Additional support has been provided by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund and The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families.

Central Park: A Sesquicentennial Celebration
May 15–August 31, 2003
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the legislation (July 21, 1853) that designated as "a public place" the lands that were to become New York's Central Park, the Museum will be mounting an exhibition about the design and construction of the park. The principal focus will be the original presentation plans and drawings, by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, for their "Greensward" plan, which won the competition of 1858. A selection of working drawings and contemporary photographs will illustrate the actual construction of the park according to that design. Most of the objects will be lent by the Municipal Archives or the Department of Parks of the City of New York.

Manet and the American Civil War: The Battle of the "Kearsarge" and the "Alabama"
Mid-May–August 2003
This exhibition focuses on The Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent acquisition, Manet's The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne. During the American Civil War, when Union forces blocked Confederate ports, the Confederacy countered by waging guerrilla warfare on Union merchant shipping. One of the most skilled Confederate raiders was the sloop-of-war, the Alabama. On June 19, 1864, the U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama fought off the coast of Cherbourg, France. The Alabama sank less than two hours after the first shot was fired. The battle captivated the attention of the French people, and Manet, who as a teenager had served in the French navy, raced to Boulogne to see the victorious Kearsarge. He painted a depiction of the battle (which he did not witness), now in Philadelphia, as well as a portrait of the Kearsarge, now in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This dossier exhibition will contain five seascapes painted by Manet in Boulogne during the summer of 1864. Additional related material—paintings by other artists, photographs, newspaper articles, and other items—will also be on view.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part by the Oceanic Heritage Foundation.

The Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces
Late May–mid-November 2003
In an annual event, the 53 paintings, drawings, and watercolors that compose the Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist masterworks will once again be on view in the Museum's Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries. The collection, acknowledged as one of the most distinguished in private hands, includes the work of 18 of the greatest artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, among them Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Picasso. Assembled by the Honorable Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, the collection is loaned generously by them to the Metropolitan for six months of every year.

The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist
June 3–August 17, 2003
The first full-scale retrospective of the photographic work of American artist Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), this exhibition will comprise 120 rare photographs, many of them unique, from all of the artist's major series: early photographs of African sculpture; images of his house and barns in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1916–17); views of skyscrapers in lower Manhattan (1920); the Ford Motor Company Plant at River Rouge (1927); Chartres Cathedral (1929); and several images of American industry made for Fortune magazine in the 1930s. Also included will be a number of Sheeler's early nudes and little-known late photographs, which were employed in place of traditional sketches as "notes in shorthand" for his paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Accompanied by a catalogue.

Charles Sheeler's Contemporaries
June 3–August 17, 2003
Scheduled to coincide with The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist, described above, this installation will present work by other photographers of the period who also drew inspiration from the American city, the machine, and the radical formal innovations of European modernism. Approximately 40 rare vintage photographs from the Museum's collection and that of the Gilman Paper Company will be shown, including work by Alfred Stieglitz, an important early influence, Paul Strand and Morton Schamberg, who shared Sheeler's first exhibition at Marius de Zaya's famed Modern Gallery in 1917, Ralph Steiner, Edward Weston, and others.

Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617): Prints, Drawings, and Paintings
June 26–September 7, 2003
This exhibition is the first major retrospective of the work of this virtuoso Netherlandish mannerist, comprising spectacular figural displays in prints, remarkable pen paintings on parchment, vivid portraits of his patrons in colored chalk and silverpoint, as well as remarkable paintings of mythological and religious subjects on canvas and copper. On display will be some 20 paintings, 55 drawings, and 70 prints.
The exhibition is made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Additional support has been provided by The Schiff Foundation.
The exhibition has also been supported by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund.
The exhibition has been organized by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Toledo Art Museum.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

The Age of Impressionism: European Painting from the Ordrupgaard Collection, Copenhagen
Through September 8, 2002
This exhibition consists of approximately 80 paintings from the Ordrupgaard Collection, located just outside Copenhagen. The collection was assembled in the early 20th century by the Danish insurance magnate Wilhelm Hansen (1868–1936), who in 1918 constructed a country house with a large picture gallery in which to display his French art. When his wife, Henny, died in 1951, she bequeathed the collection—and the home from which it derives its name—to the Danish government. Among the highlights of the exhibition are outstanding paintings by Degas, Gauguin, Monet, Pissarro, and Sisley. The exhibition also features 20 important Danish Golden Age paintings drawn from the Hansens' collection.
The exhibition is made possible in part by the Janice H. Levin Fund.
An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island
Through September 8, 2002
Few Pacific islands hold as prominent a place in the Western imagination as Easter Island, a Polynesian island that is now a part of modern-day Chile. One of the most remote inhabited places on earth, this enigmatic island is home to the Rapa Nui, a Polynesian people who developed a unique series of artistic traditions. While the island is renowned for the colossal stone figures that adorn its sacred temples, much of its art remains unfamiliar to wider audiences. The first American exhibition devoted to the art of Easter Island, Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island presents nearly 50 works examining the island's diverse artistic heritage. Featuring objects from the Metropolitan's collection as well as loans from museums and private collectors in the United States and Canada—many on public display for the first time—Splendid Isolation explores Easter Island's distinctive art forms as expressions of supernatural and secular power. Dating from the 12th to the late 19th century, the works in the exhibition range from robust stone images to refined wooden sculpture, rare barkcloth effigies, and examples of rongorongo, the island's unique and undeciphered script.
The exhibition is made possible by Compañia Sud Americana de Vapores and Viña Santa Rita.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible, in part, by the Mary C. and James W. Fosburgh Publications Fund.

Summer Selections: Scenes and Citizens of the Early Republic in Watercolor
Through September 8, 2002
Coincident with the Metropolitan Museum's showing of Thomas Eakins, the second annual installation of Summer Selections features 50 watercolors by two artists active in Philadelphia, Eakins's hometown, earlier in the 19th century. The exhibition comprises genre scenes, landscapes, and portraits, most by Pavel Petrovich Svinin and several recently attributed to John Lewis Krimmel. Many of the pictures represent early-19th-century street life in Philadelphia, where Svinin, a Russian diplomat, was headquartered for several years. Krimmel, a German émigré, lived in Philadelphia, producing some of the earliest genre paintings in American art.

Thomas Eakins
Through September 15, 2002
The first comprehensive survey of Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) in 20 years, this unprecedented loan exhibition includes oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, photographs, and sculptures by this acclaimed American artist. Esteemed as one of the nation's greatest painters for his powers of characterization and mastery of technique, Eakins is now also appreciated as an innovative photographer and art teacher. More than 150 works drawn from institutions nationwide represent every major theme explored by Eakins and include his iconic depictions of rowers, surgeons, musicians, artists, collectors, and teachers. Some 80 photographs by the artist and his circle—along with newly discovered information about the role of photography in his work—enhance public understanding of Eakins's remarkable achievements. The exhibition reveals recent scholarly discoveries about Eakins's methods and introduces a new generation to the full range of his accomplishments.
The exhibition is made possible by Fleet.
The exhibition was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art with funding from The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

New York, New York: Photographs from the Collection
Through September 15, 2002
This exhibition of some 60 works from the Museum's collection surveys photography in New York City from the era of the daguerreotype to the 1970s, and includes E.A. Anthony's famous stereoscopic view of Broadway on a rainy day (1859), Edward Steichen's intense, chromatic study of the Flatiron Building (1904), and Helen Levitt's lyrical scenes of children at play on the city's lively streets and colorful stoops (1930–70s).

Klee's Best
Through September 22, 2002
An installation of highlights from the Berggruen Klee Collection comprising watercolors, drawings, and paintings. The selection includes the rarely shown watercolors that the artist created in Tunisia in 1914, which were instrumental in his path toward abstraction.

Gauguin in New York Collections: The Lure of the Exotic
Through October 20, 2002
This major exhibition marks the first occasion in more than 40 years that Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) has been the subject of a major monographic show in New York City, and the first time that the Metropolitan Museum has displayed its entire collection of the artist's work. Approximately 130 works drawn from public and private collections throughout New York State—including more than 60 from the Met's own holdings—are on view in the exhibition comprising paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, and prints. The exhibition features works from every important stage of the artist's career and from each of his outposts in Brittany, Provence, Martinique, Tahiti, and the Marquesas Islands. The Metropolitan Museum acquired its first Gauguin in 1921, and in the intervening years his work reached an ever-widening public audience through the concerted efforts of prominent New Yorkers and local institutions. Thanks to pioneering acquisitions and the generosity of donors, the Metropolitan and other museums in the state—from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to the Nassau County Museum on Long Island to the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo—have afforded generations of viewers a vivid sense of Gauguin's genius. Shown together, these purchases, gifts, and bequests to public museums, combined with the holdings of discerning private collectors, many of which have never been on public view, provide a rich overview of Gauguin's fascinating career and a telling account of the reception of his works on this side of the Atlantic.
The exhibition is made possible by SUEZ.
The exhibition catalogue is made possible by The Drue E. Heinz Fund.

Oldenburg and van Bruggen on the Roof
Through late fall 2002, weather permitting
Four brightly colored, large-scale recent works in metal and fiberglass by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, dating from 1999 to 2001, are installed in the most dramatic outdoor space for sculpture in Manhattan: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. The sculptures range from Corridor Pin and Plantoir (garden trowel), each more than 21 feet tall, to the 12-foot Architect's Handkerchief, recalling the one that typically appeared in Mies van der Rohe's breast pocket, to painted cast-aluminum Shuttlecock/Blueberry Pies à la mode. None of the sculptures has been exhibited previously in New York. The Roof Garden offers a panoramic view of New York City's skyline, and a vine-covered pergola provides a relaxing, shaded area overlooking Central Park. Beverage and sandwich service is available from 10:00 a.m. until closing, including Friday and Saturday evenings.
The installation is made possible by the Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust.

The Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces
Through mid-November 2002
In an annual event, the 53 paintings, drawings, and watercolors that compose the Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist masterworks are once again on view in the Museum's Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries. The collection, acknowledged as one of the most distinguished in private hands, includes the work of 18 of the greatest artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, among them Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Picasso. Assembled by the Honorable Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, the collection is loaned generously by them to the Metropolitan for six months of every year.

Herzfeld in Samarra
Through January 5, 2003
On display is a selection of little-known material that the Department of Islamic Art acquired in 1943 from Ernst Emile Herzfeld, one of the most prominent archaeologists and scholars of Islamic art of the first half of the 20th century. Herzfeld's notebooks, sketchbooks, travel journals, artistically accomplished watercolors and ink drawings, site maps, architectural plans, photo albums, and photographs are included, focusing on material related to Samarra, the temporary capital of the ^cAbbasid caliphs (A.D. 836–892) situated about 125 miles north of Baghdad in Iraq. The exhibition highlights an especially significant Islamic archaeological site while offering intriguing insights into a pioneer in the studies of Islamic art.
The exhibition is made possible by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.

Bill Viola: The Quintet of Remembrance
Through January 12, 2003
This exhibition of a single work features the first representation of video art to enter the collection of the Department of Modern Art at the Metropolitan as well as the first major video installation to be acquired by the Museum. The Quintet of Remembrance, 2000, is a color video installation by preeminent video artist Bill Viola (American, b. 1951) inspired by his study of late medieval and early Renaissance paintings and their iconography. Three women and two men independently express the emotions of joy, rapture, anger, fear, and sorrow, in extended slow and soundless motion. Running continuously on a 16-minute loop, this powerful work provocatively connects the art of two eras: early Renaissance Europe and 21st-century America.

The Forgotten Friezes from the Castle of Vélez Blanco
Through January 12, 2003
An extraordinary group of six spectacular carved pine friezes has been lent to celebrate the Museum's May 2000 reopening of the renovated Renaissance patio from the Fajardo castle at Vélez Blanco in southern Spain (see page 19). Recently discovered at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, these 16th-century reliefs, each nearly 20 feet in length, were once part of the interior decoration of the rooms adjoining the patio and are boldly carved with classical and mythological scenes.

The New Violin Family: Augmenting the String Section
Through March 30, 2003
The mysteries behind making a violin sound like a violin are explored in this exhibition. Featuring 13 instruments, including a famous Hutchins Violin Octet, the exhibition chronicles the work of Dr. Carleen Maley Hutchins (b. Springfield, Massachusetts, 1911), a luthier and acoustical scientist who pioneered modern techniques of violin making. A model depicting her scientific process of plate tuning is also on display.
The exhibition is partially funded by The Amati, Friends of the Department of Musical Instruments.

Deedee Wigmore Gallery of the Arts of Louis C. Tiffany
Opening October 2002
In October the Museum will open a new gallery devoted to the arts of Louis C. Tiffany, one of the most versatile and talented American artists working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The installation in the new Deedee Wigmore Gallery highlights the Museum's preeminent collections and will feature Tiffany's windows, lamps, furniture, mosaics, blown Favrile glass vases, pottery, enamelwork, and jewelry. In addition, there will be a rotating display selected from the Museum's collection of more than 400 design drawings from Tiffany's studios.

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Galleries: The School of Paris
Newly installed August 2002 (opened June 1, 2001)
A new installation of outstanding works by modern masters from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection is now on view. Included are paintings by Balthus, Bonnard, Braque, Brauner, de Chirico, Derain, Dubuffet, Ernst, Gris, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, Mondrian, Picasso, Rouault, Tanguy, and Vlaminck, as well as one painting and three bronzes by Giacometti. These prime works by painters of the School of Paris range in date from 1895 to 1972. Several are icons of 20th-century art, and 19 works on paper are shown for the first time.

Glimpses of the Silk Road: Central Asia in the First Millennium
Opened August 2002
As seen in the 35 diverse objects that are on view in this new installation of works drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collection, the art of Central Asia is marked by an astonishing amalgam of different influences, combining Hellenistic imagery and Near Eastern motifs with Chinese and Indian features. Goods and raw materials as well as new ideas, religious beliefs, artistic styles and motifs, and technological innovations were transmitted throughout the region along overland caravan routes that later became known as the "Silk Road." Sculptures from various sites, and rare wall paintings from the Kushan kingdom (ca. 1st century B.C.–early 4th century A.D.) and that of Kucha (ca. 4th–7th century) illustrate the fascinating blend of eastern and western traditions that defines Central Asian art. Buddhist themes, often represented in the sculptures and paintings, reflect the spread of this Indian religion throughout the region and into China. The display also illustrates the transmission of technology and motifs in the applied arts.
Perhaps the most outstanding examples of works of art in the Parthian period (247 B.C.– 224 A.D.) are two ivory rhytons from Nysa, which combine Iranian and Greek themes and styles. Metalwork, textiles, and stucco produced by the Persians, the Kushans, the Sogdians, the Chinese, and others share numerous themes and decorative elements, interpreting and adapting them into their own creations.

Vélez Blanco Patio
Reopened May 12, 2000
The early 16th-century Fajardo castle at Vélez Blanco was an important landmark in the history of the Spanish Renaissance. The ornamental carved marbles that composed the castle's magnificent arcaded patio were acquired early in the 20th century for installation in the Park Avenue home of George Blumenthal, a future president of the Metropolitan Museum, and were bequeathed to the Museum at the time of his death in 1941. The patio, which was reconstructed at the Museum in 1964, recently underwent conservation and refurbishment with the addition of a new marble floor more in keeping with the original structure. In celebration of the reopening of the patio, The Forgotten Friezes from the Castle of Vélez Blanco will be on view through January 12, 2003 (see page 18).

American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age
Furniture, clocks, appliances, lamps, textiles, posters, and more from the Museum's collection and the John C. Waddell Collection—a major promised gift to the Metropolitan—created by the first generation of American industrial designers.
Exhibition organized by the Metropolitan and the American Federation of Arts.
Previously shown at:
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
May 25–August 19, 2001

Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
May 3–July 28, 2002

Current venue:
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
August 25–November 10, 2002

The Print in the North: The Age of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Based on the Metropolitan Museum's 1997 exhibition, a selection of masterpieces from the Museum's exceptional collection of German and Netherlandish prints from 1440 to 1550—the age in which printmaking came into its own.
Tour organized with the American Federation of Arts.
Previously shown at:
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
March 22–June 16, 2002

Current venue:
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
September 6, 2002– February 23, 2003

Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949–50
Based on the Metropolitan's recent exhibition, these photographs by one of the world's finest photographers are among the most ambitious and successful female nudes ever made. Folded, twisted, and stretched, with extra belly, mounded hips, and puddled breasts, the fleshy torsos of Penn's models are charged with powerful physical and sexual energy yet remain somehow chaste.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
June 1–October 6, 2002

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
March 22–July 27, 2003

Picasso and the School of Paris:
Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A loan exhibition of 72 School of Paris paintings from the holdings of the Department of Modern Art, including works by Balthus, Bonnard, Braque, de Chirico, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, Picasso, and Soutine. In Kyoto, the exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Yomiuri Shimbun and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. In Tokyo, the exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Yomiuri Shimbun and The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo.
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
September 14–November 24, 2002

The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo
December 7, 2002–March 9, 2003

Side by Side: American Sculpture from the Collections of the National Academy of Design and The Metropolitan Museum of Art This exhibition of sculptures in bronze, marble, and plaster compares related casts and carvings from the rich American art holdings of the National Academy of Design and the Metropolitan Museum. Completed between 1860 and 1920, the work of such artists as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, and Paul Manship is represented. The thematically diverse statuettes, bas-reliefs, and busts will be displayed in pairs, revealing intriguing variations in the artistic process including composition, medium, inscriptions, casting, and patination.
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
February 7–April 20, 2003

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