Historical February 1984 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Washington University’s Gallery of Art in Steinberg Hall will offer a unique look at mid-nineteenth century American landscape painters in “The Beautiful, The Sublime, and The Picturesque: British Influences on American Landscape Painting,” Feb. 18 to April 8, 1984. Nearly one-third of the 62-piece exhibition is from the Washington University art and rare book collections, including Frederic E. Church’s “Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta,” 1883.
The balance is from museums across the country, including the Yale Center for British Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
The landscape show is the first major art exhibition made possible through a large endowment from alumnus Tobias Lewin (Class of 1932).
The gift, the Hortense Lewin Art Fund, is named in honor of Lewin’s wife, who attended Washington University in the 1930s.
The gift enables the Gallery to finance a major exhibition, lecture and publication annually, according to Gerald D. Bolas, Gallery director. Earl A. Powell III, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will deliver the introductory lecture at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, in Steinberg Auditorium adjacent to the Gallery.
A reception will follow.
The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, is co-curated by Joseph D. Ketner II, curator and registrar, and Michael J. Tammenga, curatorial assistant.
They also co-authored a 76-page illustrated catalog for the show.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1 to 5 p.m. weekends.
For more information; call 889-5490.
Originally published in The Paper, February 1984.
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Archival transcription note: Closing date April 8 here differs from March 8 in the calendar.
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