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

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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. 6 Book online at dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk 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 7
EXHIBITIONS John Singer Sargent, The lady with the umbrella (detail), 1911, watercolour and pencil on paper, 65 x 54 cm, Museu de Montserrat. Donated by J. Sala Ardiz. Image © Dani Rovira Tove Jansson, Mysterious Landscape, c. 1930, oil on canvas, Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Aaltonen. SARGENT: THE WATERCOLOURS TOVE JANSSON (1914 - 2001) 21 June - 8 October 2017 25 October 2017 - 28 January 2018 The first UK show in nearly 100 years devoted to watercolours by the American artist, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Renowned as the portraitist of his generation, Sargent also devoted time to developing his talent in watercolour, undertaking several painting expeditions to Europe in the early twentieth century. Free from the constraints of his studio he was able to take inspiration from the places he visited – from the streams and glacial moraines in the Alps to the renaissance and baroque architecture he explored in Venice. Working en plein air, Sargent developed a distinctive way of seeing and composing, his subjects often appearing fragmented and disorienting. Frequently dismissed as travel souvenirs, Sargent’s watercolours dazzle with light and colour, demonstrating a technical brilliance and striking individuality, offering an alternative perspective on the artist. This exhibition brings together 80 paintings from private and public collections, revealing Sargent’s idiosyncratic view of the world and the scale of his achievement. The first UK retrospective of one of the most celebrated illustrators of the 20th century, Tove Jansson (1914-2001). Known internationally as creator of the Moomin characters and books, a phenomenon which continues to delight across generations, Jansson’s broader outputs of painting and graphic illustration are relatively unseen outside her home country of Finland. This exhibition brings together 150 works, including a large body of selfportraits and paintings never seen before in the UK. Arranged thematically, the show will trace the key stages of Jansson’s prolific career including her surrealist-inspired paintings of the 1930s and abstract works of the ‘60s, her satirical anti-war cartoons and book jacket designs, as well as her original Moomin illustrations and comic strips. An exhibition produced by Ateneum Art Museum / The Finnish National Gallery 8 Book online at dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk January — April 2017 9
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