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Collection Highlight
Marc Chagall (b. 1887) got off the train in Paris as a young artist of twenty-three. The Russian- born painter took a studio in “La Ruche,” a building in the Montparnasse section of Paris where many emigre artists had clustered. Although he was initially unhappy, he later reflected on this period and wrote: “At that time the sun of art shone in Paris alone, and even today it seems to me that there is no greater revolution of the eye than that I came across on arriving in Paris in 1910.”
His ambivalent feelings about the city’s size, which contrasted greatly with his native village, underlie the painting Paris Through the Win
dow. In this nearly square format Chagall cre
ates a pictorial “window” of a window on the world, with a fanciful view that he did not actu ally have from the “La Ruche” building. The window frame at the left changes from red to yellow to green and blue, thereby setting the color scheme for the entire composition. Out side, the clutter of roofs and steeples of Paris stretches the length of the middle distance, where a white Eitfel Tower soars high above. Just visible behind this ghostly gridwork is the Ferris Wheel which stood nearby. For Chagall, like the painter Robert Delaunay, Gustave Eif fel’s ironwork structure, which had been built during the two artists’ lifetimes, was still a con troversial new symbol of the metropolis. In 1911 Chagall had painted three pictures of the Tower; here he returns to it as an emblem of his
adopted city in one of the last large canvases completed before his return to Russia in May 1914.
Yet Chagall also subverts the naturalism of the cityscape by including an upside-down train on the left and a man parachuting toward a hori zontally aligned couple at the right. Even more unreal is the double-faced man in the fore ground, often identified as the artist himself. His blue face directed toward the bouquet of flow ers on the chair, he extends a blue hand with a heart on the palm. The backward-looking face . is white, thus resembling the human face of the cat-like creature perched on the windowsill. Chagall does not wish to ascribe a particular, limited meaning to this fantastic scene, prefer ring instead to allow it to exercise each viewer’s imagination.
Paris Through the Window was one of the first
works acquired by Solomon and Irene Guggen heim and Hilla Rebay in 1929, the year they set out to form a collection of modern art. They acquired many important examples directly from the artist, thus establishing the basis of the Museum’s extensive Chagall holdings. Several of these key paintings and drawings are included in the current French retrospective exhibitions honoring the artist’s ninety-seventh birthday, while Paris Through the Window remains on view in the Museum’s Pioneers ot
Twentieth-Century Art gallery, located off the
fourth ramp.
Marc Chagall. Paris Through the Window. 1913 Oil on canvas, 531/2 x 553/4"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gift, Solomon R. Guggenheim, 1937
R ob er t E . M a te s
New Exhibitions
Permanent Collections
Will Insley: The Opaque CivilizationSeptember 21—November 25
Will Insley, Wall Fragm ent No. 63. 6. 1963 Acrylic on Masonite and wood, 104 x 104 x 2" Courtesy of the artist
The exhibition of 50 works by the contemporary American artist Will Insley (b. 1929) reflects the Museum’s longstanding commitment to show ing living artists in midcareer. Included are wall fragments, photomontages, drawings, models and architectural plans ranging in date from 1963 to the present, which document ONECITY, an imaginary labyrinth buried in the central North American plains.
Insley’s work is based on geometric grid struc tures. Over the past twelve years he has articu
lated the myths, rituals and architecture of ONECITY, which the artist calls the “ Opaque
Civilization" . . . quite possibly the civilization
buried in the subconscious of all civilizations or all people.” The exhibition includes a monu mental, three-dimensional floor drawing of ONECITY, executed by Insley as a special installation for the Museum’s Rotunda.
The exhibition is supported by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. It is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. For more details, see the Bookstore section of this Calendar.
grants include funds for curatorial travel and the purchase of one work by each participating artist for the Museum’s collection. Additional support for this exhibition was provided by the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council.
The artists represented are Peter Booth, Dale Frank, Bill Henson, Mandy Martin, Jan Murray, John Nixon, Susan Norrie and Vivienne Shark LeWitt. Australian Visions was organized by Diane Waldman, Deputy Director of the Gug genheim. In her introduction to the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition Mrs. Waldman writes: “We see in the young Australian art of today a directness, a powerful emotive sensibil ity that finds expression in an intense pathos or humor, a sense of melodrama, a raw energy, a rude sense of color and form and finally an awkwardness that is both uncomfortable and reassuring in its vitality and affirmation of feeling.”
For further information about the exhibition catalogue, see the Bookstore section of this Calendar.
John Nixon, Self P ortrait (A rc h ite c to n ic Composition). 1984 Acrylic on burlap, 113% x 951/4"
Courtesy Art Projects, Melbourne
Painting in Paris, 1909-1927:
A Selection from the Permanent Collection
Through September 30
The exhibition of 36 paintings has been selected from the Guggenheim Museum’s col lection of early twentieth-century European art. The presentation consists of works executed in Paris between 1909 and 1927 by artists who played significant roles in the development and international acceptance of Cubism. The artists included are Braque, Robert Delaunay,
Duchamp, Gleizes, Kupka, Léger, Metzinger, Mondrian, Ozenfant, Picasso and Severini.
Expressionist Watercolors and Drawings
Through October 14
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Woman with Black Hat. 1908 India ink and watercolor on paper, 17% x 13%" Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
A selection of 18 watercolors, gouaches and drawings by European masters of modern art is on view in the Collection Gallery, located off the sixth ramp. The works on paper date chiefly from the first half of the century and, due to their fragile nature, are rarely shown. The artists represented are Campendonk, Chagall, Feinin- ger, Grosz, Kirchner, Kokoschka, Marc, Nolde and Schmidt-Rottluff.
Australian Visions:
1984 Exxon International Exhibition
September 25—November 25
The exhibition consists of approximately 65 paintings, mixed media works and drawings, as well as several installations which include nearly 100 photographs, by eight Australian artists. It is one of an ongoing series of presen tations, begun in 1978, that is designed to give broad exposure to the work of promising artists. The series is supported by grants from Exxon Corporation, and alternates between national and international contemporary art. These
Jan Murray, Screened Landscape. 1983-84 Oil on canvas, 66'/8 x 84%"
Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
Horst Antes Sculpture
October 12—November 25
The contemporary German artist Horst Antes (b. 1936) is best known for his paintings of trunkless figures silhouetted in black. The exhi bition consists of approximately 30 sculptures by the artist which have never before been seen in the United States. These recently executed sculptures are highly complex, Intimate envi ronments in which his mythical subjects appear as flattened gold shapes.
Continuing Exhibitions
From Degas to Calder:Sculpture and Works on Paper from the Guggenheim Museum Collection
Through September 9
The exhibition of 70 sculptures and 30 works on paper by 20 pioneering masters of modern art is drawn from the Museum’s permanent holdings. The works range in date from the 1880s to the 1960s and exemplify the invention and diversity that characterize modern sculpture. The artists included are Archipenko, Arp, Barlach, Bran cusi, Calder, Degas, Duchamp-Villon, Max Ernst, Gabo, Giacometti, González, Lehmbruck, Lipchitz, Maillol, Miró, Modigliani, Moholy- Nagy, Moore, Pevsner and Rodin.
Future Exhibitions
Robert MotherwellDecember 7, 1984—February 3, 1985
A retrospective featuring over 90 paintings and collages by this preeminent Abstract Expressionist.
Kandinsky in Paris: 1934-1944
February 15—A pril 14
The third and final exhibition in a series presenting the work of Vasily Kandinsky, an originator of twentieth-century abstraction.
Traveling Exhibitions
Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus Years, 1915-1933
Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin
Through September 23
Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection
Helsingin Kaupungin Taidemuseo, Helsinki
Through September 30
Justin K. Thannhauser Wing Located off the second ramp
The Justin K. Thannhauser Wing presently con tains over 90 works, primarily French paintings and drawings, that range from the Impressionisl and Post-Impressionist eras through the School of Paris of the early twentieth century. Artists on view include Bonnard, Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Modigliani Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat and Vuillard. In addi tion, there is an impressive concentration of works by Picasso.
Pioneers of Twentieth-Century Art Located off the fourth ramp
This gallery houses a selection of approxi mately 40 of the finest paintings in the collec tion, ranging in date from the early 1900s to the 1950s. Artists include Chagall, Kandinsky, Kupka, Léger and Mondrian, among others. One of the outstanding works on view is Chagall’s Paris Through the Window, which is featured in the Collection Highlight in this Calendar. In addition, a group of 15 exceptional watercolors by Klee is temporarily on view. Collection Gallery
This small gallery, located off the sixth ramp, fea tures rotating displays of works drawn from or related to the Museum’s permanent collection.
Norris Embry, a display of 15 works by the
American artist (1921-81), opens to the public October 19 and remains on view through December 16. Embry’s highly individual, expressionist works combine distorted human figures with abstract shapes. The selection includes drawings and monoprints recently donated to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. George Perle.
Norris Embry, Untitled. 1964
Gouache, watercolor and India ink on paper, 22% x 30”
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gift, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Elkon, New York
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1984 Exxon International Exhibition
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00 W O R K S BY M O D E R N M A S T E R S100 Works by Modern Masters from the Gug genheim Museum features some of the most important masterworks in the collection by 82 artists, among them Calder, Cézanne, Dubuffet, Kandinsky, Klee, Lichtenstein,Miré, Picasso, Rothko and Severini. Thomas M. Meser, Direc tor of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Founda tion, traces the evolution of the collection and discusses the personalities that created it. A biographical sketch for each artist and a com mentary on each work are provided by Curator Vivian Endicott Barnett. Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., the book includes 225 illustra tions, 100 in full color, a chronology and an
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Australian Visions: 1984 Exxon International Exhibition accompanies the current presen tation of works by eight promising artists: Peter Booth, Dale Frank, Bill Henson, Mandy Martin, Jan Murray, John Nixon, Susan Norrie and Vivienne Shark LeWitt. The catalogue includes essays by Diane Waldman, Deputy Director of the Guggenheim and Australian art critic Memory Holloway, biographies, selected exhi bition histories and selected bibliographies for the artists. There are 94 illustrations, 32 in full color.
Will Insley: The Opaque Civilization coincides with the current exhibition of works by the con temporary American artist. The catalogue includes an interview with Insley by guest cura tor Linda Shearer, a statement by the artist, a chronology, selected exhibitions and reviews and a selected bibliography. There are 59 illus trations, 5 in full color.
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Composer Philip Glass and Christopher Keene, Music Director of the New York City Opera, during the first Works and Process performance of Glass's new opera, Akhnaten.
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Contemporary Australian Literature
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The Guggenheim Museum announces
the second program in its Works and Process series
Extended excerpts from
THE DESERT MUSIC
a new piece by contemporary composer Steve Reich based on the
poems of William Carlos Williams. Steve Reich and Michael Tilson
Thomas, conductor, will discuss the work and invite questions.
Saturday, September 22, at 8 pm
Sunday, September 23, at 7 pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
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