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June 4 – October 5, 2008
Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art
The New Orleans Museum of Art has gathered approximately 80 of its finest works of European and American art from the late 16th to the mid 20th century for this rare exhibition. Among them are paintings and sculpture by François Boucher, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Auguste Renoir, John Singer Sargent, Giambattista Tiepolo, and Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. Learn more
July 23 – November 9, 2008
Richard Diebenkorn, Artist, and Carey Stanton, Collector: Their Stanford Connection
This exhibition includes close to 50 drawings, paintings, and prints by Richard Diebenkorn from the private collection of Carey Stanton. The collection now belongs to the Santa Cruz Island Foundation, established by Stanton to administer his estate, which includes two thirds of Santa Cruz Island, located off the coast of Santa Barbara. Diebenkorn and Stanton met as fellow students at Stanford University and as members of the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, in 1940. The exhibition also includes Diebenkorn’s designs for the Santa Cruz Island flag. Catalogue available. Learn more
July 23 – November 9, 2008
Richard Diebenkorn: Abstractions on Paper
On view concurrently with the larger exhibition of Richard Diebenkorn works from the Santa Cruz Island Foundation, this exhibition includes approximately 10 abstract prints and drawings from the Cantor Arts Center collection and private lenders.
Opens summer 2008, then ongoing
Contemporary Glass
At the end of the 19th century, Jane and Leland Stanford amassed a large collection of glass vessels by the Venetian firm of Salviati, a company still in existence today. This selection of contemporary glass, based on loans from local collectors, reflects the continuity of Venetian traditions. Included are works by Dale Chihuly, Toots Zynsky, Richard Marquis, Lino Tagliapietra, Dante Marioni, William Morris, Richard Royal, and others.
November 12, 2008 – February 15, 2009
Dürer to Picasso
This exhibition, of European and American art, features collection highlights, a selection of the most noteworthy works acquired over the 10 years since the museum reopened in early 1999. Each work has been chosen for its aesthetic strength, historic significance, rarity, and/or other exceptional quality that prompted its initial choice and presentation for acquisition.
December 3, 2008 – March 22, 2009
Timbuktu to CapeTown
This exhibition celebrates the complexity and variety of African art from across the continent. Thanks to the passionate interests of Director Thomas K. Seligman, Curators Ruth Franklin and Manuel Jordán, and many friends, the Cantor Arts Center now holds a rich and diverse collection of African art. An array of the most important works acquired over the past 10 years, including objects that adorn the human body, objects related to the home, and those created for ritual use, reveal media and subject matter well beyond the figurative wooden sculpture and masks that often typify displays of African art. Extensive examples of the more traditional forms are on view in the Center’s African gallery.
December 17, 2008 – March 29, 2009
Hendrick Goltzius: Promised Gifts from the Kirk Long Collection
A brilliant draftsman and noteworthy painter, Goltzius (1558-1617) is most famous as a printmaker, arguably the greatest printmaker working in the later 16th century. Selected from the collection of Kirk Long, which has been promised as a gift to the Center, and augmented by works in the Center's collection, this exhibition features many of the artist's most famous and influential images. Including his monumental Marriage of Psyche and Cupid, a dazzling impression of the color woodcut Hercules and Cacus, and his moving engraving The Body of Christ, the show illuminates the thematic range and technical virtuosity of this truly exceptional artist. A complimentary rotation in the Early European Gallery
highlights works by the artists in his immediate circle
Opening February 18, 2009, then ongoing
Rodin! The Complete Stanford Collection
The Cantor Arts Center expands the display of Rodin’s work, with the Center’s entire collection of Rodin’s bronzes, plasters, and waxes on view. The majority of the collection remains on the ground floor, occupying the south rotunda, much of the present Rodin gallery, and extending into a second major gallery. One gallery includes youthful works, a rotating selection of works-on-paper, and objects directly associated with the Gates of Hell. In the new second gallery, sculptures are divided thematically, either by project (Burghers of Calais, for example) or subject (portraiture, mythology). This new installation better serves students and visitors by making the smaller works as immediately accessible for study as the large scale works that remain perpetually on view in the B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden adjacent to the museum.
March 18 – August 16, 2009
Pop to Present
This exhibition features collection highlights, a selection of the most noteworthy works acquired over the 10 years since the museum reopened in early 1999. Each work has been chosen for its aesthetic strength, historic significance, rarity, and/or other exceptional quality that prompted its initial choice and presentation for acquisition. We chose with the intent to benefit visitors and researchers.
March 18 – June 21, 2009
Splendid Grief: Darren Waterston and the Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr.
Despite their reputation for emotional restraint, Victorians indulged in complex and elaborate rituals surrounding death and mourning. No better example is the case of Leland Stanford Jr., the only son of Leland and Jane Stanford, who died at the tender age of 15 from typhoid fever and whose demise inspired the Stanfords to found the university. This exhibition examines the Stanford family's grief and mourning as interpreted by contemporary artist Darren Waterston. Waterston will use works from the museum's collection and create new paintings to transform the gallery space into a mourning parlor. The installation will create a dialogue between the 19th-century objects and new paintings that are inspired by them.
April 15 – July 26, 2009
Appellations from Antiquity
This small exhibition, drawn from the university's collections, is derived from a proposal by Rachel Patt, student curator selected from the spring 2008 seminar taught by Jennifer Marshall, "The Art Museum: History and Practice."
July 29 – October 18, 2009
From the Bronze Age of China to Japan’s Floating World
During the last decade, significant donations and selective purchases of works from the second millennium BCE to the 20th century have expanded the Asian art collection at the Cantor Arts Center. Since important examples of works from other regions and cultures, including India, Indonesia, and Tibet, are presently on display in collection galleries, the exhibition will focus on acquisitions of Chinese and Japanese works of art. Highlights include ritual bronzes from central China, as well as prints depicting urban life from Edo period Japan. The exhibition's development will include an art history course on exhibition organization taught by Richard Vinograd and Xiaoneng Yang.