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Upcoming Exhibitions

Joslyn Art Museum hosts a selection of temporary special exhibitions annually. These feature works from other museums, institutions, and private collections worldwide, or represent an aspect of Joslyn's own permanent collection. Special exhibitions are limited-time engagements and are most often free with regular Museum admission (exhibitions with an additional entrance fee are noted).

What's Pictured: Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891), The Picnic, ca. 1885, oil on panel, Collection of the Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, on view in the special exhibition Renoir to Chagall: Paris and the Allure of Color, June 8 through September 1, 2013.

Below are upcoming exhibitions:

Renoir to Chagall: Paris and the Allure of Color 6/8/2013 - 9/1/2013 Organized by the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis Left: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901), Dancer Seated on a Pink Divan, ca. 1883, pastel on paper, Collection of Dixon Gallery & Gardens This vibrant exhibition from the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, traces the most significant developments in French painting that shaped the direction of modern art for more than a century. Renoir to Chagall presents the scenes — from ballet to boulevard — that made Paris a magnet for nineteenth- and twentieth-century masters, among them Cézanne, Chagall, Degas, Gauguin, Matisse, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec. MORE DETAILS
The Lorax 8/10/2013 - 11/3/2013 Left: "But the next week he knocked . . .," pen and ink on poster board, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum; TM & © Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. All Rights Reserved. Presidential libraries have plenty of art, including numerous portraits of Presidents, but the LBJ Library & Museum has artwork you might not expect — a set of original drawings by Dr. Seuss. It is the artwork from The Lorax, which Dr. Seuss considered his finest work. The book, written in Dr. Seuss's trademark whimsical rhyme, tells the tale of a creature who "speaks for the trees." The Lorax wages a courageous battle against an evil creature called the Once-ler, who cuts down trees to make Th-needs, "which everyone needs." Joslyn will showcase a selection of Dr. Seuss' preliminary crayon drawings and final pen and ink line art for this iconic book.
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection 9/28/2013 - 1/5/2014 Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Left: Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), No Title, 1987, oil on canvas, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Promised gift of Emily Fisher Landau P.2010.70, © 2012 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Legacy features a selection of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from a historic gift pledged to the Whitney in 2010 by Emily Fisher Landau, a preeminent collector of postwar art in the United States. Legacy reflects primary themes that have driven America artists since the 1960s — including the relevance of representation in the aftermath of Minimalism; gender and racial politics; and the “culture wars” of the 1980s. The exhibition features work by some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, among them Andy Warhol, Glenn Ligon, Sherrie Levine, Agnes Martin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, John Baldessari, Kiki Smith, and Ed Ruscha.

6/8/2013 - 9/1/2013

Organized by the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis

Left: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901), Dancer Seated on a Pink Divan, ca. 1883, pastel on paper, Collection of Dixon Gallery & Gardens

This vibrant exhibition from the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, traces the most significant developments in French painting that shaped the direction of modern art for more than a century. Renoir to Chagall presents the scenes — from ballet to boulevard — that made Paris a magnet for nineteenth- and twentieth-century masters, among them Cézanne, Chagall, Degas, Gauguin, Matisse, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec.

MORE DETAILS

8/10/2013 - 11/3/2013

Left: "But the next week he knocked . . .," pen and ink on poster board, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum; TM & © Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. All Rights Reserved.

Presidential libraries have plenty of art, including numerous portraits of Presidents, but the LBJ Library & Museum has artwork you might not expect — a set of original drawings by Dr. Seuss. It is the artwork from The Lorax, which Dr. Seuss considered his finest work. The book, written in Dr. Seuss's trademark whimsical rhyme, tells the tale of a creature who "speaks for the trees." The Lorax wages a courageous battle against an evil creature called the Once-ler, who cuts down trees to make Th-needs, "which everyone needs." Joslyn will showcase a selection of Dr. Seuss' preliminary crayon drawings and final pen and ink line art for this iconic book.

9/28/2013 - 1/5/2014

Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Left: Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), No Title, 1987, oil on canvas, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Promised gift of Emily Fisher Landau P.2010.70, © 2012 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Legacy features a selection of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from a historic gift pledged to the Whitney in 2010 by Emily Fisher Landau, a preeminent collector of postwar art in the United States. Legacy reflects primary themes that have driven America artists since the 1960s — including the relevance of representation in the aftermath of Minimalism; gender and racial politics; and the “culture wars” of the 1980s. The exhibition features work by some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, among them Andy Warhol, Glenn Ligon, Sherrie Levine, Agnes Martin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, John Baldessari, Kiki Smith, and Ed Ruscha.