Régis François Gignoux (French/American, 1816-1882), On the Upper Hudson, 1862. Oil on canvas. Douglas and Cynthia Crocker Collection.
Re/Framing The View: Nineteenth-century American Landscapes
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October 14 | 9am - 11am
Members of the Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) are invited to preview MMAM’s new exhibition, Re/Framing The View: Nineteenth-century American Landscapes. Join us at MMAM on Saturday, October 14 from 9am - 11am for coffee and pastries, and a preview of the exhibition with MMAM Staff. The exhibition opens to the public at 10am on Saturday, October 14, and will be on view through August 4, 2024.
Drawn from six private collections, the New Bedford Whaling Museum collection, and six strategic institutional loans, Re/Framing the View includes works by Frederic Edwin Church, and Albert Bierstadt, and Jasper Francis Cropsey, among many others. While the exhibition celebrates the work of these artists, it also offers a layered interpretation of the cultural and historical meaning of such paintings. By interrogating the place of gender, race and ethnicity, as well as environment and ecology, we re/frame the view and stage meaningful conversations about historical and contemporary issues and events.
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acknowledgments
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is proud to partner with the New Bedford Whaling Museum to present Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-century American Landscapes. This landmark exhibition and major publication have been made possible by funding from the William M. Wood Foundation, Cynthia and Douglas Crocker, Victoria and David Croll, KAM Appliances, Louis M. Ricciardi & Elizabeth M. Soares, Roger Servison, Mary Jean and William Blasdale, an anonymous donor, and other individual supporters.
We are grateful to private lenders and museum staff at partner institutions who supported loans, including Cynthia and Douglas Crocker; Tina and Paul Schmid; Frances Levin; Roger Servison; Victoria and David Croll; Carol Taylor and John Deknatel; Erica Hirshler and Ann Walt Tagliamonte at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Maureen O’Brien and Tara Emsley at the RISD Museum; Carol Soltis, Kathleen Foster, Sophia Meyers, Hyunsoo Woo, Hannah Kauffman, Eileen Owens, and Teresa Lignelli at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Jonathan Olly and Andrea Squeri at the Long Island Museum of American Art; Margi Hofer and Mark Schlemmer at the New York Historical Society; Christina Michelon and Lily Sterling at the Boston Athenaeum; and Michael and Stephan Winokur. We are especially thankful for the participation of Cynthia and Douglas Crocker, whose incredible collection of nineteenth-century American landscape paintings inspired the project and form the core of its display.
Special thanks to both our Museums’ Board of Trustees, members, volunteers and staff. Especially grateful to the incredibly dedicated and talented staff who contributed directly to the project: Naomi Slipp, the Douglas and Cynthia Crocker Endowed Chair for the Chief Curator; Emma Rocha, Curatorial Assistant; Melanie Correia, Exhibitions Manager; Emily Mead, Director of Philanthropy; Jennifer Smith, Manager of Institutional Relations; Jordan Berson, Director of Collections; Michael Lapides, Director of Digital Engagement; catalog contributors Darienne Turner, Elizabeth James-Perry, Astrid Tvetenstrand, and Jennifer Stettler Parsons; and Brian Bierig, Jacek Gancarz, John Morris, and Scott Benson, who assisted with design, object photography, copyediting of the exhibition catalog. And special thanks to Dr. Janelle Cooper and Dr. Kathleen Hanson for keeping the connections between the Upper Mississippi river and the East Coast alive and thriving.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.