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In This IssueART 4 Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan
6 Frank Lloyd Wright: Building the Imperial Hotel
7 Steve Mumford’s War Journals, 2003–2013 and Goya: The Disasters of War
8 Artist Q&A with Lain York
9 All-Access
News 10 Program Spotlight
11 Education Highlights
12 Get Connected
suppoRT 13 Get Involved
sToRe 14 Shopping
upcomiNg 15 Exhibition Schedule
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See Page 4COVER IMAGE: Vincent van Gogh. Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Robert Treat Paine, 2nd, 35.1982. Photograph © 2014 MFA, Boston
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William R. Frist, Chair and President
Jean Ann Banker
H. Lee Barfield II
Laura Chadwick
Karyn McLaughlin Frist
Frank M. Garrison
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Bob Gordon
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Marlene Hays
Melvin N. Johnson, D.B.A.
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Robin I. Patton
Stephen S. Riven
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Jay Turner
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Gail P. Carr Williams
Susan H. Edwards, Ph.D.
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Thomas F. Frist, Jr., M.D., Chair
Kenneth L. Roberts, President
Martha Rivers Ingram
Ex-officio:
Karl F. Dean, Mayor
Diane Neighbors, Vice Mayor
2014 Gala Co-chairs:
Cathy Brown
Betsy Wills
Advisors:
Peter F. Bird, Jr.
Jack F. Stringham II
Honorary Trustees:
Bernice W. Gordon
J. Stephen Turner
Greetings,
With this issue, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts begins its second
year with a larger format quarterly newsletter. Our goal was to fulfill
the requests of members for more information about upcoming
exhibitions and public programs. A recent survey indicates that we
met those expectations, but we hope to keep the lines of communication
open. Please do not hesitate to contact the Membership Department
with suggestions or feedback. Also, remember that additional information
can be found on our website (www.fristcenter.org). Our goal is to
serve our members and enrich your experiences with art.
To that end, we have scheduled a mix of exhibitions for 2014 that we hope will stimulate your
imagination and feed your soul. You will see paintings by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh,
Wassily Kandinsky, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and more. Do not miss the renowned
print series The Disasters of War by Spanish master Francisco Goya. Contemporary artists
showing at the Frist in 2014 include Nashville favorites Lain York and Marty Stuart, as well
as Maira Kalman, Helen Pashgian, and Steve Mumford. In the fall, we will host an exhibition
organized by Frist Center Curator Trinita Kennedy titled Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican
and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy, with stunning examples of Early Renaissance art,
including works from the Vatican collection.
We hope you will continue to find the member newsletter useful and informative. As always,
I look forward to seeing you at the Frist throughout 2014.
Susan H. Edwards, Ph.D.Executive Director and CEO
“Our goal is to serve our members and enrich your experiences with art.”
Susan H. Edwards, Ph.D.Executive Director and CEO
Other distinctively Japanese objects—hanging
scrolls, lacquered boxes for writing paper, porcelain
flower vases, silk dressing gowns (fig. 3), and tea
sets—were also avidly collected in the West. For
American and European artists, they seemed to
possess a magical allure. Alfred Stevens and other
painters incorporated imported Japanese wares
into their compositions (fig. 4), but these items had
such a pervasive influence that they also directly
inspired Western decorative arts and fashion.
The more than 170 works of art on view are all
drawn from the collection of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, which has one of the finest
collections of both Japanese art and American
and European art of this period in the world.
TriniTa Kennedy, curator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
image CrediTs: Fig. 1. Utagawa Hiroshige I. Plum Estate, Kameido, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1857.Woodblock print. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, 11.20206. Photograph © 2014 MFA, Boston
Fig. 2. Claude Monet. The Water Lily Pond, 1900. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Given in memory of Governor Alvan T. Fuller by the Fuller Foundation, 61.959. Photograph © 2014 MFA, Boston
Fig. 3. Iida Takashimaya, retailer. Woman’s dressing gown, Japanese, for Western market, ca. 1900. Taffeta embroidered with silk. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Elizabeth Ann Coleman, 2001.933.1-2. Photograph © 2014 MFA, Boston
Fig. 4. Alfred Stevens. Meditation, ca. 1872. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara Bertram Kimball, 23.528. Photograph © 2014 MFA, Boston
Looking East celebrates the extraordinary influence of Japanese
art and culture on the Western imagination in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. When Japan opened its ports to
international trade in the 1850s after centuries of self-imposed
isolation, a craze for all things Japanese swept through Europe
and the United States. Known as japonisme, the phenomenon
played a profound role in the leading artistic movements of the
era, among them Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Art
Nouveau, and had an impact on everything from architecture
and furniture to book illustration and painting.
Many Western artists learned about Japanese aesthetics through
color woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating
world.” Poetic and beautiful, these prints focus on themes of
popular entertainment in the Japanese capital of Edo (now Tokyo)
such as annual festivals set on the grounds of temples, flirtatious
geishas dressed in elegant kimonos, lead characters in Kabuki
theater, and Mount Fuji and other tourist sites captured in the
different seasons of the year. The asymmetrical composition,
bright colors, and flattened shapes of Utagawa Hiroshige’s Plum
Estate, Kameido (fig. 1) are typical of ukiyo-e, as is the fragile,
fleeting nature of its subject matter, the bright white blossoms
of the Sleeping Dragon plum tree. Claude Monet and Vincent
van Gogh are among the many Western artists who studied
and acquired ukiyo-e. The arched footbridge over a water
garden at Monet’s home in Giverny is based on landscapes
he saw in Japanese prints, and it is the subject of many of his
most famous paintings, including The Water Lily Pond (fig. 2).
Van Gogh declared, “My whole work is founded on the Japanese,”
and in his portrait of Joseph Roulin (cover), he gives the French
postman the same mask-like face and surprised expression as
the actors in Japanese prints.
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s u g g e s t e D r e A D i n g :either before or after your Frist center experience, consider reading the following books to heighten your understanding of the exhibition, all of which can be found in the Frist center gift shop.
foR AdulTs:Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan Helen Burnham, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2014.
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and LossEdmund de Waal, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
foR cHildReN:Vincent’s ColorsVincent van Gogh, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005
Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of JapanJanuary 31—May 11, 2014 | Ingram Gallery
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Building the Imperial HotelJanuary 31—May 11, 2014 | Education Gallery
The flow of artistic and cultural influence between
Japan and the West was not one way. While the
Western artists featured in Looking East: Western
Artists and the Allure of Japan were captivated by
the exotic beauty and striking formal qualities of
ukiyo-e prints, Japan embraced Western technology
and culture as it rushed to assert itself on the global
stage. Architecture played an important role in
Japan’s presentation of itself as a modern nation.
In 1915 the Imperial household and a host of investors
commissioned the American architect Frank Lloyd
Wright to build the Imperial Hotel, a Western style
hotel to be located in the heart of Tokyo.
The Education Gallery exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright:
Building the Imperial Hotel, allows visitors to explore
in greater depth how a single Western architect
approached the melding of Japanese and Western
aesthetics to create a hotel that was intended to
symbolize both cultural exchange and Japan’s
modernity. Visitors can discover Wright’s design
process and inspiration through architect’s
drawings, photographs, ephemera, and a digital
rendering of the hotel created by the Harvard
University Graduate School of Design.
From the grand facade to the dinner service created
for the cabaret bar, every component of the hotel’s
interior and exterior was carefully designed to create
a unified aesthetic experience. Wright’s profound
admiration of Japanese art and his commitment to
creating buildings uniquely suited to their environment
made his Imperial Hotel a wonderful hybrid of Eastern
and Western sensibilities.
megan roberTson, associate curator of interpretation, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
This exhibition was organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
The frist center for the Visual Arts gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the friends of Architecture.
image CrediT: Unknown photographer. The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo: designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built 1915–1922, survived 1923 earthquake, demolished 1967; ca. 1922. Courtesy Mary Evans Picture Library
Steve Mumford’s War Journals, 2003–2013 and Goya: The Disasters of WarFebruary 28–June 8, 2014 | Upper-Level Galleries
This powerful pairing of exhibitions juxtaposes
the works of two artists, one a contemporary
realist and the other one of the most celebrated
“old masters” of European art. Steve Mumford’s
War Journals, 2003–2013 is composed of
watercolors and pencil sketches the artist
made in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo
Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Instead of using a camera,
Mumford employs these hands-on mediums to
capture his subjective experiences of what he
calls “the spaces in between,” the periods between
combat in which soldiers and civilians strive
to maintain a sense of normalcy in the face of
encircling trauma. A spirit of empathy pervades
Mumford’s visual journal, enabling us to recognize
the individual pain and incredible resilience of the
people he portrays.
Concurrently on view is Goya: The Disasters of
War, a renowned series of prints that documents
the atrocities of the Peninsular War of 1808–14
between Spain and France, the related famine,
and the artist’s despair at the restoration of the
Bourbon monarchy in Spain. Noting the savagery
of both sides of the conflict, The Disasters of War
reflects the capacity of all people to abdicate their
sense of humanity under extreme circumstances.
The exhibition presents new scholarship on the
series, reviving Francisco Goya’s original intentions
for the order in which it is to be seen.
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marK sCala, chief curator Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Steve Mumford’s War Journals, 2003–2013 is organized by Mark Scala, chief curator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
Goya: The Disasters of War is a collaboration of the Pomona College Museum of Art and the University Museums of the University of Delaware. It is curated by Janis Tomlinson, Director, University Museums, and circulated by the Pomona College Museum of Art.
image CrediTs: at right: Francisco Goya. Y no hai remedio (And there is no remedy), ca. 1811–12. From Los Desastres de la Guerra, 1st edition, plate 15, 1863. Etching, drypoint, burin, and lavis, 5 11/16 x 6 1/2 in. Pomona College, Claremont, California, Gift of Mr. Norton Simon, P74.67
above: Steve Mumford. A typical Iraqi checkpoint in Baghdad in 2007 as the US raced to get Iraqi forces in place. It seemed to me that what the Iraqis lacked in finesse, they often made up for in boldness, 2007. Ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist. © Steve Mumford
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Over 115,000 visitors came to see Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles last summer.
The exhibition, which presented the art of automotive design, was our first devoted to
Art Deco style. It brought many people here for the first time or for the first time since our
historic building was a U.S. Post Office. Nashville is booming with many new structures
going up downtown and elsewhere. This seems an especially appropriate moment to look
at our city with a renewed and deeper understanding of our history and cultural heritage.
Consider, if you will, the democratic uses of a Post Office and how fitting it is that this
structure was repurposed as a public amenity, an art museum. Andy Warhol once said
that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same
things as the poorest. He was referring to soft drinks at the time, but the same can be
said of a postage stamp. This spring we are delighted to have on view one of the most
celebrated paintings of a postman in the history of art. Don’t miss Vincent van Gogh’s
Postman Joseph Roulin (1888), on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as part of
Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan.
Museums are nonprofit, charitable organizations that exist for the curious…anyone who
wants to learn or find enrichment. While at the Frist Center, you can also visit the Post
Office on the ground floor to buy a stamp.
Susan H. Edwards, Ph.D.Executive Director and CEO
All-Access
What I like about the P.O.
Old political narratives are the source for these works. Is it important to you that we know the facts and events that inspired each image? I see these pieces as being as much about abstract painting as about any historical
narrative. I really like the idea of giving the viewer a narrative source for abstraction;
it’s more fun for me. The hope is to draw the viewer in with imagery that might be
recognizable with the added pay-off of specific references to American or European
history sparking a conversation. I hope it helps to break down the conception that
abstraction requires a working knowledge of the medium.
Do you hope viewers will devise their own sense of what the images and phrases mean? I am definitely interested in a more open interpretation coming from the viewer. I try to
leave some cues as to who the characters are and what they refer to but avoid anything
too obvious. I have always felt strongly about the value of a misinterpreted historic record,
which becomes more fluid over time. It happened that the historical text I was reading
during the 2012 presidential election dovetailed wonderfully with the idea of using popular
images of political and social satire from the nineteenth century as shapes or abstracted
characters. The underlying narrative of history or the untold story that actually sets future
events in motion has been a consistent theme in my work. I have no wish to personally
comment one way or the other so I use the platform of an official archive (which in most
cases is anything but objective) to reinforce the thought of something larger than
ourselves influencing the chain of events.
How do the medium and process reflect your interests in such things as veiling and layering, and the physicality of paint and support? The motivation for this series was largely a response to the materials; the vinyl being
stretched over painted surfaces that provide a backdrop for silhouetted shapes. I like the
idea of objects gaining meaning through the passage of time and accumulation of surface
patina. It also made sense to me to use vinyl, a material I have worked with consistently
over the past eighteen years as a museum art handler. For me it is part of the language of
“the museum.” The work of Jessica Stockholder, Richard Aldridge, and Gedi Sibony (not to
mention Matisse and Kara Walker) helped me bridge the gap or gave me permission to
make this latest step regarding surface and material. I feel that I am extending the conversation.
Lain York Chief Curator Mark Scala interviews the artist
Nashville artist Lain York’s recent works
are inspired by American history as it is
conveyed through nineteenth-century
texts, political cartoons, newspaper
articles, and engravings. They feature
silhouetted figures in period garb,
interacting in graceful pantomime.
The titles mimic the stinging rhetoric that
has long marked our public discourse,
suggesting that the characters are
involved in politics. These brightly
colored works are made from stick-on
vinyl, which is often wrinkled or hangs
loose, implying that the lessons of
history are unfixed in time. Lain York:
Selections from the National Gallery will
be on view in the Gordon Contemporary
Artists Project Gallery from January 31
through May 11, 2014.
Artist Q&A
S u g g e St e d R e a d i n g :Either before or after your Frist Center experience, consider reading the following books to heighten your understanding of the exhibition, all of which can be found in the Frist Center Gift Shop.
foR AdulTs: John Adams. David McCullough, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
The Americans: The Colonial Experience. Daniel Boorstin, New York: Random House, 1993
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005
foR youNg AdulTs: Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud. Suzanne Tripp Jurmain, New York: Dutton, 2011
Lain York. Trashed in the Press from Selections from the National Gallery, 2012. Vinyl, acrylic paint, correct tape, and graphite on panel, 24 x 16 x 3 in. Courtesy of the artist. © Lain York
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Program Spotlight
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The frist center is pleased to partner with company Rose and The martha Rivers ingram commons at Vanderbilt university to present two performances of “pools of glass” at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, february 6 and friday, february 7.
After two hundred and fifty years of isolation, a wave of imported images and objects from Japan stirred the Western
imagination profoundly. The floating world of the Edo Period portrayed in ukiyo-e prints inspired artists with scenes
of exotic beauty and bold compositional devices. Choreographer Marsha Barsky and the dancers of Nashville-based
Company Rose have taken a similar imaginative journey through time and space to create an original modern dance
composition inspired by the exhibition Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan. Company Rose invites
you to seek with them, past the screens and the rippling seas, images and movement inspired by Japanese art and culture.
image Credits:
Top left: Designed by Gisbert Combaz. L’Eau from the series Les Eléments, 1898. Chomolithograph. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bought for the Museum in Europe by Sylvester Rosa Koehler, M15180.7. Photograph © 2014 MFA, Boston
Top right: Photography by Justin Harvey
Education Highlights
NEW: Teen Summer Workshop“ARTlab: Moving Pictures”Monday, June 16 through Friday, June 20 | 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
$300/per teen age 14–18 for members of any participating
organization; $350/teen for non-members
Check out the new summer art-making workshop for teens ages 14 to
18. Be inspired by the exhibition Watch Me Move: The Animation Show
and create digital and animated works of art during this weeklong
summer workshop. Registration opens for members on January 27
and for non–members on February 10. Register early!
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Imagine! Create! Discover!
discover a world of creativity atfrist center summer Art camp 2014!
Calling all young artists—discover a world of inspiration and creativity at the Frist Center’s Summer Art Camp! Our weeklong, age appropriate classes are designed to encourage artistic expression, art appreciation, and hands on art exploration for kids ages 5 to 13. Try out new art materials and processes, discover Frist Center
exhibitions, and experience original works of art. No previous art-making experience is necessary.
early registration opens for frist center members on January 27, 2014 and for non-members on february 10, 2014. spaces fill quickly, so register early to guarantee your spot.
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Imagine! Create! Discover!
2014
Nashville Art Works: Career Exploration in the Cultural Artsmonday, June 16 through Friday, June 20 | 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.$300/per teen age 14–18 for members of any participating organization; $350/teen for non-members
Interested in a career in the arts? This workshop offers teens ages 14–18 an opportunity to explore various careers in cultural nonprofit organizations. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, the Nashville Symphony, along with the Center for Non-Profit Management, present this rare opportunity to gain career experience through hands-on activities and experiential learning. Professionals from each organization mentor students in this project-based and fast paced weeklong event.
2014 Summer Art Camp Sponsor
william N. Rollins fund for the Arts of The community foundation of middle Tennessee
Penetrating the aqueous surface
Her search begins.
Amidst the serene reflections of an early
springtime morning,
Captured droplets ignite her visage.
Enchanted, she searches through tranquility
and finds another,
Bathing in tranquility.
Her movement from behind a screen
Sends ripples across the surface of the water.
Mirrors of quietude,
Pools of glass.
Carrie Mae Weems Opening in NYC Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, organized by Frist Center Curator Katie Delmez, continues its national tour at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where it will be on view from January 24 through May 14. Traveling to the Portland (OR) Art Museum,
the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, this retrospective has been called a “landmark” exhibition,
garnering attention in regional, national, and international media. Making art of this caliber requires an equally matched creator. In late September
2013, Carrie Mae Weems was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for “transforming our understanding of social identity and visual imagery.”
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their support from September 1 to November 30, 2013. This support makes it possible
for us to provide free admission to visitors eighteen and younger, as well as exhibition
programs for seniors and families.
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Art Is All Around YouThe Frist Center for the Visual arts and nashville Public Television (nPT) are pleased to continue their collaboration in producing new seasons of the emmy™ nominated ArtQuest: Art Is All Around You, a series of short broadcast segments focusing on developing children’s creativity and fostering a love for the visual arts through an interdisciplinary approach. The series takes its name from the Frist Center’s interactive art gallery for children of all ages, martin artQuest, and is geared toward viewers ages 7-9 and airs on nPT between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. around popular children’s programs.
The first season of 15 segments with topics such as color in nature, lines in architecture, and creating public art are now all available on the Frist Center’s website at www.fristkids.org. on the site, visitors will find enrichment activities to explore at home, in-depth lesson plans for teachers to use in the classroom, as well as web resources for each segment and topic.
ArtQuest: Art is All Around You is made possible by the generous support of the Frist Foundation.
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Handcrafted Gifts
Be sure to see our beautiful handcrafted jewelry, ceramics, textiles, decorative
arts from around the world, framed prints and posters, stationery, supplies for
the developing artist, books, videos, and exhibition catalogues, galore.
BooksShare the art of Norman Rockwell
with children of all ages in Rockwell:
A Boy and His Dog. This book tells
the story of a young boy searching
for the perfect dog to accompany
him as he poses for a slice-of-life
Rockwell portrait. ($14.95)
Gift ShopPopular in every season, the Frist Center gift Shop is one of nashville’s
favorite places to shop. Whether you’re looking for a gift for a child
or something special for the person who has everything, you’ll
find a dazzling array of specialty merchandise at the Frist.
Items shown are available for purchase at the Frist Center Gift Shop.
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through January 1230 Americansingram gallery
Ana Maria Tavares: Deviating Utopiasgordon contemporary Artists project gallery
through February 9American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwellupper-level galleries
Open January 31Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japaningram gallery
Frank Lloyd Wright: Building the Imperial Hoteleducation gallery
Lain York: Selections from the National Gallerygordon cAp gallery
Open February 28Goya: The Disasters of WarSteve Mumford’s War Journals, 2003–2013 upper-level galleries
Coming May 9American Ballads: The Photographs of Marty Stuartconte community Arts gallery
Coming June 6Watch Me Move: The Animation Showingram gallery
Maira Kalmangordon cAp gallery
Coming June 27Real/Surrealupper-level galleries
Exhibitions
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image CrediTs: Marty Stuart. Last Portrait, September 8, 2003, 2003.Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the artist. © Marty Stuart
Maira Kalman. Well, Susan, this is a fine mess you are in, 2007. Gouache on paper. © Maira Kalman
Edward Hopper. Cape Cod Sunset, 1934. Oil on canvas, 29 1/8 x 36 1/4 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.1166. © The Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, Licensed by Whitney Museum of American Art. Digital Image © Whitney Museum of American Art
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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts is a 501(c)3 nonprofit art exhibition center dedicated to presenting and originating high quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities. The Frist Center offers the finest visual art from local, regional, national, and international sources in a program of changing exhibitions that inspire people through art to look at their world in new ways.
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Watch Me Move: The Animation ShowO p e n i n g J u n e 6 , 2 0 1 4In 1911 American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay prefaced his short film Little Nemo with the invitation to “Watch Me Move,” introducing a cast of colorful characters in a playful promenade. This dynamic exhibition uses the same words to invite visitors to a celebration of 150 years of animation. On view will be over 100 films from around the world, from early pioneers, independents, and contemporary artists to popular favorites such as Disney and Pixar. Watch Me Move: The Animation Show promises hours of enjoyment as visitors discover the endless possibilities of this popular form of expression.
Watch Me Move: The Animation Show is organized by Barbican Centre, London. The Barbican Centre is provided by the City of London Corporation.
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