SUArt Museum Traveling Exhibition Program

01/04/2019

Looking for a new exhibition to display in your gallery or museum for 2019 and beyond? No worries, we have you covered. Explore the arts of printmaking, photography, mixed media, and more with the Syracuse University Art Galleries traveling exhibitions! Visit our website to explore our offerings!

06/21/2018

Near the Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls, Iowa? Don’t miss the closing reception for the traveling exhibition, Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga, tomorrow night! (6/22).

Don't miss the Closing Reception for our current exhibition, Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection on Thursday, June 21 from 6-7 p.m. in the galleries!

Join us after from 7-8 p.m. for a guest lecture with Dr. Kendra Strand, Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at the University of Iowa, as she discusses the works of art in the exhibition!

10/26/2017

Born Philip Blashki in New York City in 1901, Philip Evergood was educated in England, at Eton College and Cambridge University. He studied sculpture at the Slade School of Art in London from 1921 to 1923, after which he briefly attended the Art Students League of New York, working under George Luks. He continued his training at the Academie Julian in Paris during 1924-25, visited southern France and Italy in 1926, and then returned to New York, where he had his first solo exhibition composed of religious and allegorical works in 1927. He traveled abroad again in 1929, spending the next three years in France and Spain. After settling in New York in 1931, he was strongly influenced by the depression and its effects on the American people. As a result, he turned his attention to social themes, such as political oppression and racism, as well as depictions of the daily life of the common man. While essentially realistic, his style had strong Expressionist overtones created through line and color. A leading Social Realist, he belonged to the American Artists Congress, the Arrests Union, the Works Progress Administration, and other related organizations. During the 1940s, Evergood incorporated a greater degree of Surrealist fantasy into his paintings, drawings, and prints, while retaining the graphic linearity that characterized his work.

This print is currently on view at the Peninsula Arts Center, the final venue for the highly popular exhibition "The Artist Revealed: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits."

08/07/2017

“There is never any one way to take a subject, sometimes there are many.... Different pictures amply reveal that by moving the camera a great deal or even slightly, dramatic results can be achieved.” –

: it's all about your frame game. Abbott's old-school documentary style is on view this summer at The Wolf in "North and South: Berenice Abbott's U.S. Route 1" (organized by Syracuse University Art Galleries) → http://ow.ly/F9ke30ee2PZ.

07/27/2017

Born in 1899, Werner Drewes received his formal art training at the Bauhaus in Germany under the tutelage of Klee, Kandinsky, and Feininger before emigrating to the United States in 1930. Most of his early work was rooted in the style of the Expressionists but this gradually gave way to abstraction and in the 1950s he returned to his German Expressionist roots. Manhattan was a return to a series of prints he issued in 1932 that were considered radical and a direct challenge to American prints of regionalist and urban realist styles. By 1954 the appearance of Manhattan was no longer controversial as the style had been fully integrated into American art.

This print is featured in the traveling exhibition "American Woodblock Prints," currently available for rental!
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Image details:
Werner Drewes, American 1899-1985
Manhattan, 1955
color woodcut on Japanese paper
18 x 11 5/8 inches
edition 18/20
Collection purchase
SUAC 1963.0187

07/26/2017

Happy birthday to George Grosz, born in 1893. This print, Löwen und Leoparden füttern ihre Jungen…, is featured in the new exhibition "Politics on Paper: Art with An Agenda from the SUAC," which will be presented at the Tyler ArtGallery in September, and the Las Cruces Museums in February 2018!
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Image details:
George Grosz, American, born Germany, 1893-1959
Löwen und Leoparden füttern ihre Jungen…(Lions and
leopards feeding their young ...), 1921
from Die Räuber, 1922
lithograph on laid paper
19 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches
Collection purchase
SUAC 1955.59

07/25/2017

Born in 1906, Stow Wengenroth studied at the Art Students League, the Grand Central School of Art and at the Eastport Summer School of Art with George Innis who introduced him to lithography. In the years that followed he became well known for his skill at creating lithographs that conveyed a sense of texture, atmosphere and mood. Wengenroth collaborated with George Miller, who had printed many lithographs for important artists of the day, to perfect a specially ground limestone that could achieve the most subtle textures and gradations of light and dark in his prints. During the course of his career he created 369 lithographs and authored several books on the process. The recipient of numerous professional honors, Wengenroth was elected to the National Academy of Design and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His work is in major American museum collections, and a nearly complete collection of lithographs is possessed by Brown University.

This image, "Maine Lighthouse (Prospect Harbor, Maine)" is featured in the exhibition "Pulled, Pressed, and Screened: Important American Prints," opening soon at the The Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University.
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Image details:
Stow Wengenroth, American 1906-1978
Maine Lighthouse (Prospect Harbor, Maine), 1966
lithograph on wove paper
15 1/4 x 11 7/8 inches
Collection purchase
Syracuse University Art Collection, 1982.001

07/24/2017

Happy 90th birthday to Alex Katz, born in Brooklyn. Katz studied at Cooper Union before moving on to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Katz became known for his portraits and landscapes in the 1950s, developing features that predate Pop Art. Although he made several prints earlier in his career, Katz began to use screenprinting and lithography in the late 1960s to attain the flat surfaces he had developed in his paintings. The Whitney Museum of American Art presented a major exhibition of his prints in 1974 followed by a traveling retrospective in 1986. Since 1965 Katz has produced more than 400 lithographs, etchings, screenprints, and woodcut print editions.

This print, White Petunia, is included in the exhibition "Pulled, Pressed, and Screened: Important American Prints," opening at The Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University on August 30th!
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Image details:
Alex Katz, American, born 1927
White Petunia, 1969
color lithograph on wove paper
29 7/8 x 22 3/16 inches
Gift of Robert Fine
Syracuse University Art Collection, 1978.130

07/18/2017

Artist and educator Calvin Burnett was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the 1950s, he received a degree in art education from Massachusetts College of Art and his M.F.A. from Boston University in 1960. He went on to teach at the Elma Lewis School in the heavily segregated Boston neighborhood of Roxbury. His early teaching experiences may have been the inspiration for his 1969 lithograph Freedom Fighter for Operation Exodus. A community-based response to the established segregation of the Boston public school system, Operation Exodus was established in 1965 as a voluntary, self-funded program that bused African American children from the overpopulated schools of Roxbury and Dorchester to under-enrolled, predominantly white schools. This program laid the foundation for the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity until court-ordered desegregation of Boston schools in 1974. Like many of his contemporary African American artists, Burnett immortalizes his Freedom Fighter as a strong, proud black figure symbolizing the shared struggle of racial equality and civil rights. Burnett returned to teach at Massachusetts College of Art for more than 30 years.

This print is a part of the newly offered traveling exhibition "Politics on Paper: Art With An Agenda from the SUAC," which will travel to the Tyler Art Gallery at SUNY Oswego this September, and then to Las Cruces Museums in New Mexico in February!
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Image Details:
Calvin Burnett, American, 1921-2007
Freedom Fighter for Operation Exodus, 1969
lithograph on wove paper
30 x 34 inches
Gift of Dr. Marvin A. Sackner
Syracuse University Art Collection, 1984.318

07/17/2017

Happy birthday to American master photographer Berenice Abbott, born in 1898. This image is currently in the traveling exhibition "North and South: Berenice Abbott’s U.S. Rte 1," on view at the The Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami, Florida through October!
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Image details:
Berenice Abbott, American 1898-1991
Daytona Beach, Daytona, Florida, 1954
gelatin silver print
7 1/2 x 9 9/16 inches
Gift of Thorne Barnes Donnelly
Syracuse University Art Collection, 1981.2256