Last Call: Cézanne's Drawings at MoMA; Shadzia Sikander at the Morgan

Paul Cézanne, Vase of Flowers, 1885-88

The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

The end of the Summer Season exhibition is nigh, evidenced by the closing of two superb shows that demonstrate the transformative magic of drawing and painting on paper.

Cézanne Drawing closes today at the Museum of Modern Art to non-members and tomorrow to members of the museum.  It's a glorious exhibition that needs to be seen in person.  If you haven't been to the the show yet and can't visit today, please considered becoming a member of the Museum of Modern Art in order to see the show tomorrow. Our NY museums deeply appreciate your financial support, and these magnificent drawings deserve your undivided attention.

Shadzia Sikander, Mirrat I (1989-90)

Sean Kelly and Pilar Corrias, London

 

Shahzia Sikander’s exhibition Extraordinary Realities, at the Morgan Library & Museum closes on Sunday, September 26th.  It traces the artist's first 15 years as a professional artist, beginning with undergraduate work produced at the National College of Art in Lahore, Pakistan, her hometown. Sikander completed her graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 1995, and spent 1995-1997 in  Houston, Texas.  She currently lives in New York.  Mirrat I was made while Sikander was an undergraduate student in Pakistan, where she studied traditional miniature painting.  Her work layers traditional imagery and her original figures and forms to provide feminist commentary on contemporary issues.

Shahzia Sikander's New York Times essay in the series "What Do We Believe?" was published on May 25, 2021.

For more information about the artists and exhibitions, please visit the website links provided here.  Exhibition images, videos, and podcasts are available on both websites.

Best wishes for the Fall,

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nešić, Ph.D.

Director

New York Arts Exchange, LLC

www.nyarts-exchange.com

Credit...Shahzia Sikander, Sean Kelly and Pilar Corrias

 

Portraits of Artists' Mothers

Mary Cassatt, Reading the Figaro (Portrait of the Artist's Mother), 1878

Katherine Kelson Johnston

Louisine Havermeyer wrote in her memoirs Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector (Ursus Press, 1993): "Anyone who had the privilege of knowing Mary Cassatt's mother would know at once that it was from her and her alone that [Mary] inherited her ability."

Here are other artists' mothers who have gave us their talents through their children:

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1  

(The Artist's Mother), 1871

Anna McNeill

Paul Cézanne, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1867

Anne Elisabeth Honorine Aubert

Berthe Morisot, Portrait of the Artist's Mother and Sister, 1869-70

 Marie-Joséphine-Cornélie Thomas

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1896

Marie Picasso y Lopez

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1897

Anna Tanner

Arshile Gorky, The Artist and His Mother, 1926-36

Gorky's mother died of starvation in 1919 

The portrait is based on a 1912 photo

Happy Mother's Day,

Beth New York

aka Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director, New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com

Last Call:Fall 2014 Exhibitions Ending in January, February and March 2015

Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline in a Black Scarf, October 11, 1954

Private Collection,  

©2014 Estate of Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The end of the Fall Art Season is quickly approaching as the old year fades into the new. 

Here is the list of  important Fall 2014 shows closing in January, February and March 2015.

"Picasso and Photography," Gagosian Gallery on West 21st. St., through January 3rd.

"The Crusader Bible," "Artists' Holiday Cards," Morgan Library and Museum, through January 4th.

"Assyria to Iberia - Classical Age," Metropolitan Museum, through January 4th.

"Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s," Guggenheim, through January 7th.

"Picasso and Jacqueline," Pace Gallery on West 25th St., through January 10th.

"David Hockney," Pace Gallery on West 25th St., through January 10th.

"Richard Pousette-Dart," Pace Gallery on West 25th St., through January 10th.

Marisol Escobar, The Family, 1969

All rights reserved, Marisol Escobar/Licensed by VAGA, 

New York; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

"Marisol: Sculpture and Works of Paper," El Museo del Barrio, through January 10th.

"Iceland: Artists Respond to Place," Scandinavia House, through January 10th.

Kathleen Gilje, Woman with an Ermine, Restore, 1997

at the National Academy, 

Courtesy of  Francis Naumann Gallery and the artist

All rights reserved

"Beyond the Classical," National Academy, through January 11th.

"Renaissance Tapestry," Metropolitan Museum, through January 11th.

"Theodore Rousseau and the Untamed Landscape," Morgan Library and Museum, through January 18th.

"Robert Gober," Museum of Modern Art, through January 18th.

"Egon Schiele," Neue Galerie, through January 19th.

Irving Harper, Owl, Paper Sculpture

"Irving Harper," Rye Art Center, through January 24th.

"Chris Ofili," New Museum, through January 25th.

"Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis," Jewish Museum, through February 1st.

"Bartholomeus Spranger," "Death Becomes Her," Metropolitan Museum, through February 1st.

Henri Matisse, Blue Nude II, 1952

"Henri Matisse: The Cutouts," Museum of Modern Art, through February 10th.

Georges Braque, Le Roche-Guyon, Summer 1909,

Leonard A. Lauder Collection 

"Leonard A. Lauder Cubism Collection," Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 16th.

"Madame Cezanne," Metropolitan Museum, through March 15th.

"Helena Rubenstein," Jewish Museum, through March 22th.

Happy New Year - with our best wishes,

Cheers!

Beth New York

aka Beth S. Gersh-Nesic
Director, New York Arts Exchange
www.nyarts-exchange.com