Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks at the Met
March 16 – August 29, 2010
Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum is one of the finest college or university collections in the United States, serving as an invaluable educational resource for aspiring art scholars. While the museum is closed in 2010 for renovations, 20 of their masterpieces—19 paintings and one sculpture—will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for five months. These will include the great Ter Brugghen painting Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene (one of the most important North Baroque painting in the U.S.), Cézanne's Viaduct at l'Estaque, Kirchner'sSelf-Portrait as a Soldier, and a striking Kirchner sculpture. Each of these works will be integrated into the Metropolitan Museum's great collection, creating new, provocative juxtapositions.
The paintings will be placed in various galleries in the Metropolitan Museum's European Paintings Galleries, 19th– and Early 20th–Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries, and Modern and Contemporary Galleries, alongside corresponding works. The Metropolitan is fortunate to have this occasion to display many of its major paintings with Allen Memorial Art Museum's splendid pieces by artists as varied as Altdorfer, Ter Brugghen, Turner, Monet, Cézanne, Kirchner, and Rothko. This exhibition will provide visitors to the Metropolitan Museum with a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Oberlin College's rich collection and see them in a different environment.
Comprising nearly 14,000 works of art from virtually every culture and spanning the history of art, the Allen Memorial Art Museum's collection is a vital cultural resource for the students, faculty, and staff of Oberlin College as well as the surrounding community. The current building renovation and endowment effort will ensure that the museum continues to provide deep educational and aesthetic experiences for Oberlin College faculty and students and the public.
The exhibition is organized at the Metropolitan Museum by Maryan Ainsworth, Curator in the Department of European Paintings, and an Oberlin College alumnus.
A special brochure about the works with maps of where to find them in the Metropolitan Museum's galleries will be published to accompany the exhibition.
Following the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, a collection of works from the Allen Memorial Art Museum will be on view at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. for several months.
The exhibition and its related programs will be featured on the Museum's website at www.metmuseum.org.
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November 23, 2009
Following is a full list of the works from the Allen Memorial Art Museum that will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Erhard Altdorfer, German, 1480/85–1561/62St. Mary Magdalen Raising a Dead Knight for Confession, 1519
Erhard Altdorfer, German, 1480/85 – 1561/62St. Mary Magdalen Raising the Wife of the Prince of Marseilles, 1519
SpanishThe Fountain of Life (Fuente de la Vida) , 16th century
Herri met de Bles, Flemish, c. 1510–before 1572Landscape with the Conversion of Saul on the Road to Damascus, c. 1545
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri), Italian, 1581–1641Landscape with Flight into Egypt, c. 1605
Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari), Italian, 1568–1640The Agony in the Garden (Christ on the Mount of Olives) , 1597/98
Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch, c. 1588–1629Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene, 1625
Pier Francesco Mola, Italian, 1612–1666Mercury Putting Argus to Sleep, 1645–1655
Michiel Sweerts, Flemish, 1618–1664Self-Portrait, c. 1656
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (called Il Baciccio), Italian, 1639–1709Death of Adonis, 1683–1685
Joseph Wright of Derby, English, 1734–1797Dovedale by Moonlight, 1784– 1785
Joseph Mallord William Turner, English, 1775–1851View of Venice, The Ducal Palace, Dogana and Part of San Giorgio, 1841
Claude Monet, French, 1840–1926Garden of the Princess, Louvre (Le Jardin de l'Infante) , 1867
Paul Cézanne, French, 1839–1906Viaduct at L'Estaque (Le Viaduct a l'Estaque) , 1882
Henri Edmond Cross, French, 1856–1910The Return of the Fisherman (Le Pêcheur Provençal) , 1896
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German, 1880–1938Self-Portrait as a Soldier, 1915
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German, 1880–1938Standing Female Nude, 1919
Mark Rothko, American, 1903–1970The Syrian Bull, 1943
Adolph Gottlieb, American, 1903–1974The Rape of Persephone, 1943
Barnett Newman, American, 1905–1970Onement IV, 1949
