EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
Past Exhibitions
OLANA ON THE ROAD
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY | February 9-May 12, 2019
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA | June 1-September 8, 2019Details to follow.
OLANA ON THE ROAD
Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Foundation, Cologne, Germany | November 23, 2018 - March 24, 2019
In Winter 2018/19 the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum will present a large survey exhibition dedicated to US American art from 1650 to 1950. The show begins with works extending from the colonial era to the masters of American Realism, and ends with examples of Abstract Expressionism.
June 17 - November 25, 2018
The 2018 exhibition will highlight the first time that the historic costumes Church collected on his 1867-68 journey to Beirut, Damascus, Jerusalem, Petra and other Middle Eastern cities will be seen by the public. They will be displayed within the historic rooms of Olana’s main house, whose design was inspired by Churches’ Middle Eastern travels, and Olana’s Sharp Family Gallery will present new research on the collection and its relationship to Church’s work and that of his contemporaries, including Church’s friend and guest at Olana, Mark Twain.
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The Frances Lehman Loeb Arts Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY | September 21 - December 9, 2018
Past Time: Geology in European and American Art looks at sketches and studies made by European and American artists from the 1770s to the 1890s who were engaged with a new, scientific emphasis on the Earth.
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National Gallery, London | June 11 - October 7, 2018
Celebrated as one of America’s preeminent landscape painters, Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was born in northern England at the start of the Industrial Revolution, immigrated to the United States in his youth, and traveled extensively throughout England and Italy as a young artist. He returned to America to create some of his most ambitious works and inspire a new generation of American painters.
May 2017 - November 2018
The installation of Jesús Rafael Soto’s iconic outdoor sculpture, Penetrable, currently on view at Olana State Historic Site has been extended through late 2018.
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Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT | June 2 - August 26, 2018
Artist Frederic Church was the most popular and financially successful painter in mid-19th-century America, best known for his large paintings of wild places in North and South America, the North Atlantic and the Caribbean. But from the late 1860s until the late 1870s, many of his most important paintings represented ancient cities or buildings from his trip to the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
OLANA ON THE ROAD
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | January 30 - May 13, 2018
Celebrated as one of America’s preeminent landscape painters, Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was born in northern England at the start of the Industrial Revolution, immigrated to the United States in his youth, and traveled extensively throughout England and Italy as a young artist
OLANA ON THE ROAD
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC | February 9 - May 13, 2018
Artist Frederic Church was the most popular and financially successful painter in mid-19th-century America, best known for his large paintings of wild places in North and South America, the North Atlantic and the Caribbean. But from the late 1860s until the late 1870s, many of his most important paintings represented ancient cities or buildings from his trip to the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
Evelyn and Maurice Sharp Gallery | May 14 - November 5, 2017
The Olana Partnership is pleased to announce the 2017 featured exhibition, “OVERLOOK” a groundbreaking installation by Artist Teresita Fernández. Working with Guest Curator Sara Meadows, Fernández draws from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and the Olana Collection to reexamine Frederic Church and his contemporaries’ response to the cultures and landscapes experienced during their Latin American travels.