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  1. Intimate Settings and Public Spaces: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings and Prints

    Ira J. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Linn   "MFAH Impressionist drawings evoke Paris in a new age of urban culture" —CultureMap.com Born into a new age of urban culture, social mobility, and leisure, the Impressionists captured the era's rampant prosperity and Yet works on paper—using a diversity of media from chalk, graphite, pastel, and watercolor to etchings and lithographs—also demonstrate both groups' interest in capturing private and public spaces.

  2. Form Follows Function: Celebrating 10 Years of the American Institute of Architects, Houston Design Collection at the MFAH

    Melvyn L. Wolff   In 2000, the MFAH and the Houston chapter of the American Institute of Architects launched a partnership with dual goals: build a world-class collection of objects designed by architects and educate the public about the role

  3. Aqueous Abstractions: Contemporary American Watercolor and Gouache

    Watercolor consists of pigment particles dissolved in water mixed with gum arabic, a natural gum made from hardened sap. Made into dry cakes or liquid stored in tubes, watercolor is diluted with water and is applied to paper with a brush. As the water evaporates, transparent layers of color become enmeshed with the surface of the paper, creating a luminous effect.

  4. German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann-Corinth-Slevogt

    Generous funding is provided by: Linda K. Finger   Impressionism is considered a fundamentally French artistic movement, but the international reputation of Paris as the world´s leading art center inevitably led to the dissemination of this style to other countries. Although none of the three was exclusively a landscape artist, their landscapes present an opportunity to trace the development of a particular kind of German Impressionism through works of the highest quality.

  5. Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art

    Louis K. Adler Puffer-Sweiven / Emerson Process Management Leslie and Brad Bucher Macy´s Mr. Samuel F. Gorman Cosmopolitan Routes is a tribute to the Founding Members and Latin Maecenas who have supported the museum´s Latin American art initiative and its collecting activities since the department´s inception in 2001. This presentation is the first in a series of exhibitions celebrating the 10th anniversary of the museum´s Latin American Art Department and International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA).

  6. Cai Guo-Qiang Commission for the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery

    Cai executed Odyssey, his gunpowder drawing on 42 panels, at a Houston warehouse in early October 2010. A limited number of free tickets made it possible for the public to attend the sessions, and the ignition event was livestreamed via CultureMap and shown at the MFAH viewing party at Saint Arnold Brewing Company.

  7. Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

    Martha K. Long Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam is the first exhibition at the MFAH devoted to Sufism, a historic branch of Islam whose followers seek mystical union with God. The show also includes a reading space for visitors who would like to learn more about Islamic art and the themes in the exhibition. Light of the Sufis travels to Houston after its premiere at the Brooklyn Museum.

  8. Joaquín Torres-García: Paintings in Houston Collections

    He is revered not only as a Modernist painter, but also as a teacher and an author. Each work on view represents a different period of Torres-García’s production—ranging from an early landscape painted in France in 1928 to an oil on paper and canvas work made in 1945—giving viewers a broad overview of his career Additionally, the presentation features five works from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection of Latin American Art at the MFAH, a major long-term loan addition to the museum’s Latin American holdings.

  9. North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection

    Linnet F. Deily The Margaret Cooke Skidmore Endowed Exhibition Fund John L. Wortham & Son, L.P. Leslie and Brad Bucher Macy’s Foundation Mr. Samuel F. Gorman

  10. Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an

    But calligraphy was also a trace of its maker, a permanently impressed mark of his or her character. Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, a companion exhibition to Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, showcases a superb selection of folios from copies of the Qur’an, the preeminent context Pat R. Rutherford, Jr. Mr. Kay-Ghobad “Kiddie” Zafar Mr. Mike Hoomani The Seaver Institute Fariba and Rainer Buchecker Standard Oilfield Services - Baku