Thematic Traditions on Paper

September 18 - December 16, 2001
Wilbur Room

In the Wilbur Room cases this fall is an exhibition of works on paper that highlights the enduring European and American artistic traditions of landscape, portraiture, genre, and still life. Spanning the 17thto the 20th century, this exhibition complements the new European and American Gallery display of thematic traditions in painting, on view in the rear section of the reinstalled gallery. The Wilbur Room exhibition will include prints, drawings, and photographs, by such artists as Adrian van Ostade, Rembrandt van Rijn, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eduard Steichen, Amedeo Modigliani, and Peggy Bacon. Vermont subjects are well represented and include Henri Matisse’s lithographic portrait of Vermont-born educator and philosopher John Dewey, and Vermont artist Hilda Belcher’s watercolor study for her much-loved painting in the Fleming’s collection, Chicken Pie Supper.