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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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