| The second exhibition at the
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum presents a selection of forty
masterpieces that traces six centuries of painting from the
Renaissance to the 1960's, drawing on the collections
of three of the world's greatest museums: the State
Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Kunsthistorisches
Museum in Vienna, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in
New York. This will be the first full-scale exhibition to
celebrate the trilateral collaboration agreement forged between
the three institutions in January 2001, uniting three very
different, mutually complementary collections through joint-programming
and collection-sharing initiatives.
Art Through the Ages presents key moments in the development
of Western painting with masterpieces from classical Renaissance
to twentieth-century Modernism. The exhibition begins with
fifteenth-century Northern Renaissance portraits by Jan van
Eyck, (Portrait of Jan de Leeuw [1436]) and Albrecht Dürer
(Portrait of Johannes Kleberger [1526]), and continues with
sixteenth-century Venetian Renaissance paintings by Titian,
Tintoretto, Francesco Bassano and Lorenzo Lotto. The selection
of seventeenth-century Baroque period works are particularly
diverse: French Classicism is represented by Nicolas Poussin's
The Victory of Joshua Over the Amelekites (1625) and Claude
Lorraine's Morning in the Harbor (late 1630's).
Works by Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban
Murillo and Diego Velázquez reflect the "Golden
Age" of Spanish painting. Dutch and Flemish painting
is represented by richly detailed work by Jan Steen and David
Teniers the Younger. Portraits by Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony
van Dyck further highlight this rich period of European painting.
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century French paintings by Antoine
Watteau, Eugène Delacroix, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille
Corot lead into Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings
by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne.
Twentieth century Modern masterworks by Pablo Picasso, Marc
Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich,
Piet Mondrian, and Joan Miró illustrate the artistic
innovations of the first part of the century – many
of which influenced American Abstract Expressionism. This
movement is highlighted in the exhibition by Jackson Pollock's
Ocean Greyness (1953) and paintings by Willem de Kooning and
Mark Rothko. The exhibition ends with Grrrrrrrrrrr!! (1965),
by American Pop artist, Roy Lichtenstein.
In addition to the cultural and historical significance of
its individual works, Art Through the Ages is the first exhibition
of Old Master paintings in the greater Las Vegas region and
is therefore an unprecedented opportunity to bring the wealth
of Western painting to a new audience.
Museum Hours: 9:30 AM - 8:30 PM, daily
Admission: $15 adults, $11 students, $7 children 6–12,
free for members and children under 6, $12 Nevada Residents
with State ID, $12 Seniors
Public Information:
Tel: (702) 414-2440
Fax: (702 414-2442
Website: www.guggenheimlasvegas.org
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