Dulwich Picture Gallery - What's On - Jan-Apr 2017

EXHIBITIONS
Patti Smith, Paint brushes, Duncan Grant’s studio, 2008, ©
Patti Smith. Courtesy of the artist and Robert Miller Gallery
Patti Smith, Vanessa Bell’s library, Duncan Bell’s painting
of Vanessa Bell in her mother’s dress, 2006 © Patti Smith.
Courtesy the artist and Robert Miller Gallery
Adriaen van de Velde, The beach at Scheveningen,
1658, Oil on canvas, © Museumslandschaft Hessen
Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.
LEGACY
PHOTOGRAPHS BY VANESSA BELL
AND PATTI SMITH
8 February - 4 June 2017
ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE
DUTCH MASTER OF LANDSCAPE
Until 15 January 2017
A special display bringing together photographs
by Vanessa Bell and the American writer, artist
and musician, Patti Smith (b. 1946).
Smith has long been drawn to Charleston,
Bell's farmhouse on the Sussex Downs. Her black
and white photographs sensitively capture the
lingering remains of the life Bell led there - in
particular with her life companion, Duncan Grant.
Bell's own photograph albums include
pictures from her childhood summers in St Ives
and of her own young family and the circle of
leading intellectuals and artists that surrounded
her throughout her life.
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While Smith's photographs depict places
abandoned to the forces of time, Bell's teem with
a host of characters, captured by her sharp eye
and framed by her keen compositional instincts.
Seen together, the photographs offer two different
artistic visions which both capture a lasting
Bloomsbury legacy.
Entry included with your ticket to the Permanent
Collection
The world’s first exhibition devoted to one of
the finest landscape artists of the Dutch Golden
Age, Adriaen van de Velde (1636 – 1672).
Over a career of less than two decades,
van de Velde produced a varied body of
tranquil landscapes matched by a superb
collection of preparatory drawings in
exquisite red chalk, making him one of the
most sought-after names among collectors
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The exhibition brings together 60
paintings and drawings, including the
masterpiece The Hut, 1671, which is displayed
with its exquisite studies. The show offers not
only a survey of the artist’s oeuvre but also a
rare glimpse of a seventeenth-century Dutch
landscape painter at work.
A quiet revelation... and
delightful rediscovery
The Telegraph
Varied, accomplished and sensitive
Evening Standard
Time Out
This exhibition is part of Rediscovering Old Masters:
The Melosi Series.
Supported by a grant from the American Friends of
Dulwich Picture Gallery Inc., made possible through the
generosity of The Arthur and Holly Magill Foundation.
In-kind support from Farrow & Ball.
Exhibition organised by Dulwich Picture Gallery,
London and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
January — April 2017
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