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  1. Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students, and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection

    Mar 19, 2012 - About the Catalogue The full-color, 200-page exhibition catalogue is by Peter C. Sutton, specialist in Northern Baroque Art and the Executive Director of the Bruce Museum, and William W. “It is a coup for the MFAH to display nearly 60 of these works from the Abrams Collection.” “While offering the public a chance to see one of the most important groups of Dutch drawings collected in the past half century, it also opens a window into 17th-century Holland and the thought process of Rembrandt and his school

  2. WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath

    Mar 5, 2012 - 8, 2013–February 2, 2014 Related Exhibitions • W. Eugene Smith and James Nachtwey (October 14, 2012–January 1, 2013 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) W. Digitally printed on a 30-foot seamless sheet, the relentless views of life-saving surgery in modern military hospitals are a dramatic contrast to Ceriani’s modest facilities.

  3. Unrivalled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art

    Mar 2, 2012 - Education programs for this exhibition are made possible by The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. She writes in the exhibition catalogue: “John Powers’ passion, enthusiasm, and learning resulted in a collection of the highest quality. I do not think it would be possible to make a collection of this caliber today. September 3, 2012 Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York  June 24–September 9, 2012 For more information, please contact: MFAH Communications 713.639.7554

  4. "Egyptomania" Reveals the West's Enduring Romance with Egypt and Its Dramatic Influence on Decorative Arts

    Feb 16, 2012 - The description of G. An “Aegyptian” Chair, c. 1875, and a Thebes Stool, c. 1884, are fine instances of the Egyptian Revival in English furniture. A black marble Obelisk, c. 1850, would have had a dramatic presence in someone’s home. It stands over one foot tall and features side panels with hieroglyphics.

  5. Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage

    Jan 19, 2012 - In El Lissitzky’s Runner in the City (c. 1926), an image of a male athlete jumping a hurdle is collaged over a photograph of a teeming Times Square, as if the figure were fleeing a dehumanized American metropolis. Wangeshi Mutu, a Kenyan artist who works in New York, combines fragments from Western and African visual cultures in A Headresting Moment (2006): a larger-than-life-size collage of a hybrid female figure. The artist used Photoshop to combine a photograph of his Hungarian-Indian aunt in European dress with an image of his Indian grandfather in traditional clothing, reconnecting a daughter and a father who had a turbulent relationship

  6. Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst

    Jan 3, 2012 - in fact, a work by Van Aelst. It includes an abundance of opulent objects overflowing the canvas, including a nautilus cup on a stone table with a rich blue tablecloth, likely painted using expensive ultramarine pigment made from lapis lazuli (a stone prized The project was conceived by Tanya Paul, Ruth G.

  7. Elegant Perfection: Masterpieces of Courtly and Religious Art from the Tokyo National Museum

    Dec 27, 2011 - Opening Events The MFAH members’ opening will include a ribbon-cutting and performance by Akiko Yano, a composer, vocalist and pianist. Seigo Arai; Nanako and Dale Tingleaf; Mitsui & Company (U.S.A.), Inc.; Penny and Paul Loyd; Mitsubishi Corporation; Miwa S. Sakashita and John R. Our commitment to exhibit contemporary objects will continue as well, with phase two of the installation and the eventual commission of a major work from a contemporary Japanese artist, showcasing Japanese art through time.”

  8. Highlights of the Peter Blum Edition Archive

    Dec 19, 2011 - Eric Fischl’s renowned Year of the Drowned Dog is a composite of six color prints that, when combined, operate as a pictorial game with a complex narrative. The first component is a triptych of a Caribbean beach panorama and the second consists of three separate smaller sheets (mother and child observing the dog of the title, three sailors and a walking man) that overlap the panorama 6, 2012 Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection March 4-June 3, 2012 Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage     March 11–June

  9. Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London

    Dec 9, 2011 - Brauer, Senior Lecturer, Glassell School of Art, MFAH Friday, June 8, at 1:30 pm, and repeated on Saturday, June 9, at 4 p.m.: From Guinness to Gainsboroughs: A Brewer Collects in the Gilded Age, presented by Julius Bryant, presented by David E. Fayez Sarofim; M. D. Anderson Foundation; Fayez Shalaby Sarofim and Meredith J. Long Endowment for Exhibitions; Mr. and Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis; and Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff.

  10. Beauty, Humor, and Social Justice: Gifts from Joan Morgenstern

    May 9, 2011 - And Jonothan C. George S. Zimbel’s Dog and Cat, Bona Fide Farm (1976) pictures a small kitten scrambling up a screen door and a much larger dog, standing against the door and looking up at its escaped prey. A whimsical photograph by Karl Biden depicts a dog with two black spots, one of which is a graphic circle floating half on the dog and half in space.