CURRENT EXHIBITION
The Wyeths: Three Generations
March 1, 2008—July 31, 2009
The Soyer Bequest exhibition will feature around 20 paintings and works
on paper by Moses and Raphael Soyer, Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper, Phillip
Evergood, Elie Nadelman, Guy Pene du Bois, Joseph Stella, George
Bellows, Abraham Walkowitz, and others, including Chaim Gross’s carved
wood sculpture, Three Acrobats (1928). These works were donated by
artist Moses Soyer and his wife, Ida, who greatly augmented the
Montclair Art Museum’s collection in 1974 with a bequest of over 100
works, providing crucial representation of American figurative art
between the wars. For three generations, the Wyeths have created art
that captures the imagination and admiration of a wide audience. This
exhibition presents more than 60 paintings, drawings, and illustrations
by N.C. (Newell Converse) Wyeth, his son Andrew Wyeth, and his grandson
Jamie Wyeth. The works—from the early 1900s to the present—reveal the
breadth of the Wyeth family’s creative output and illuminate both
common themes within the works and the artists’ individual styles.
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