Calendar
March 2000

Peabody Museum of Natural History
170 Whitney Avenue, 432-5050

Through April 1
"O.C. Marsh: A Centennial Celebration"

The life and scientific achievements of Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) are the focus of an exhibit that celebrates the centennial of the scientist's death. Included are photographs, illustrations, fossils, and an original letter from Charles Darwin.

Marsh was the first professor of paleontology at Yale, the first such appointment in America. After his uncle's death in 1869, Marsh used his inheritance to amass large collections of fossils, skeletons, footprints, and archeological and ethnological artifacts, all of which he presented to Yale in 1898. When the present Peabody Museum building was built, the Great Hall was designed to accommodate the skeleton of the Brontosaurus (now Apatosaurus), Marsh's most popular contribution.

Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 12-5pm.

Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street, 432-2800

Through April 30
"The 20th-Century Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, and Works of Art on Paper"

This comprehensive display of the BAC's holdings in 20th-century art draws upon every curatorial department in the museum and features paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, artists' books, and documentary material. The BAC's collections range across the dominant movements in British art, from the Camden Town Group through Vorticism, Surrealism, the Independent Group, Pop, and the School of London, to the controversial "Young British Artists" of today. Among the major figures who emerge through this display are Gwen John and Ben Nicholson, both favorite artists of the museum's late founder, Paul Mellon '29.

Through May 7
"C.R.W. Nevinson"

Approximately 90 paintings, drawings, and prints by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946) comprise the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the artist, the first such retrospective to be held in the United States.

When World War I broke out, Nevinson went to France as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross. Greatly affected by his experience in the trenches, he produced a series of powerful images that convey the bleakness of war. Nevinson returned to the Front in 1917 as an official war artist, and he painted a number of compelling images, including one that was censored by the War Office for its stark portrayal of the horrific conditions of battle.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 12-5pm.

University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street, 432-0600

Through April 9
"Jasper Johns: New Paintings and Works on Paper"

In the past three years Jasper Johns, one of the 20th century's most influential artists, has created a remarkable new body of work. This exhibition of 12 images -- six paintings, two drawings, and four prints -- draws upon spare, open fields of gray that recall the impastos of earlier works. The series seems to accrue meanings and complexity, conjoined by the hanging arc of string in front of each painted surface. This motif of the catenary curve is strikingly new and suggests the bridging of time and space, the small and the large, the child and the adult, the comic and the tragic, life and death.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday 1-6pm.

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