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Albany, Georgia
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Pride in Place: Landscapes by The Eight
in Southern Collections
The Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia is pleased to announce
an exciting landmark exhibition, Pride in Place: Landscapes by The Eight
in Southern Collections. This exhibition, the first to focus on landscapes
by the group of painters known as The Eight, is comprised of 40 landscapes
drawn from 17 Southern museum collections. The exhibition opens at the Albany
Museum of Art in January 2000 and then will travel to three other Southern
museums through October of 2000. An essay by Dr. William Gerdts, the noted
scholar of American art, is included in the full-color catalogue that accompanies
this exhibition. (left: Ernest Lawson (1873-1939), Segovia,
1916, oil on panel, 12 x 16 1/8 inches, Georgia Museum of Art, University
of Georgia; Athens, Georgia. Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection
of American Art,Gift of Alfred H. Holbrook, GMOA 45.59)
The Eight were a group of American artists in New York
City who held a well-publicized exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery in New
York in February, 1908. It comprised Arthur Bowen Davies,Maurice Brazil
Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, Robert Henri,
John Sloan, and George Luks. Men of widely different tendencies, they were
bound by common opposition to academism. As a group they were primarily
devoted to the depiction of urban activities or, as in the case of Henri,
their leader, to single figural imagery of what he termed "My People."
A core group within The Eight (Henri, Sloan, Shinn, Glackens, and Luks)
had earlier been active in Philadelphia, primarily as 
newspaper illustrators, before migrating to New York,
where they began to tackle sometimes tough and brutal urban Realist themes.
Yet, some of the artists were, in fact, drawn for various reasons to pure
nature, while all of them absorbed the relatively new categories of the
urban and recreational landscape into their oeuvres. (right: William
Glackens (1870-1938), The Lake, 1918, oil on canvas, The Cummer Museum
of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida)
The
forty works in Pride in Place show mountain scenery, coastal scenes,
foreign landscapes, rural and suburban scenes, recreational landscapes,
and urban landscapes. Dr. William Gerdts remarks, "This exhibition
is the first to focus on the achievements in landscape of the Eight. Their
landscapes resonate with a sense of identification with their subjects that
carry them beyond the pure objectivity of Realist observation. (left:
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Summer, n.d., oil on canvas, on loan
from the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; Gift from the estate of
Henry Mordecai Rosenberg)
Pride in Place: Landscapes by The Eight in Southern
Collections will be on display at the Albany Museum
of Art of Albany, Georgia, through March 12, 2000. It then travels to Montgomery
Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama, where it will be exhibited from April
1 to May 13, 2000. From June 15 to August 13, 2000 the exhibition will be
on display at Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi. Cheekwood
Museum, in Nashville, Tennessee will be the final host for the exhibition
from August 31 to October 15, 2000.
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Artists, a national registry of historic artists.
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The Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia is pleased to announce
an exciting landmark exhibition, Pride in Place: Landscapes by The Eight
in Southern Collections. This exhibition, the first to focus on landscapes
by the group of painters known as The Eight, is comprised of 40 landscapes
drawn from 17 Southern museum collections. The exhibition opens at the Albany
Museum of Art in January 2000 and then will travel to three other Southern
museums through October of 2000. An essay by Dr. William Gerdts, the noted
scholar of American art, is included in the full-color catalogue that accompanies
this exhibition. (left: Ernest Lawson (1873-1939), Segovia,
1916, oil on panel, 12 x 16 1/8 inches, Georgia Museum of Art, University
of Georgia; Athens, Georgia. Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection
of American Art,Gift of Alfred H. Holbrook, GMOA 45.59)
