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The Delaware Art Museum regularly presents major traveling exhibitions, offering the community an opportunity to become familiar with a wide variety of artists and artistic movements. The Museum also displays smaller exhibitions, often assembled from its permanent collection, to complement larger shows or to bring select works to light
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The Return of the Pre-Raphaelites
The Delaware Art Museum welcomes home America’s largest collection of British Pre-Raphaelite art after an international tour. The Pre-Raphaelites rejected the conventions of their time and focused on the past, particularly the Middle Ages, drawing inspiration from literature, Arthurian legend, Shakespeare, and the Bible. |
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May 10, 2008 – August 10, 2008 |
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This Is War!
In the 18th and 19th centuries, war in America changed from battlefields with facing lines of soldiers to small scale guerilla attacks, and then to action in large scale impersonal battles. Not coincidentally, the illustration of war in the popular press and wartime propaganda became part of the embattled milieu. Due to the richness of the Delaware Art Museum’s illustration collections, this small exhibition will include artists’ interpretations of war from the 18th through the 20th centuries. |
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| June 28, 2008 – September 21, 2008 |
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Garry Knox Bennett: Call Me Chairmaker
This exhibition features 52 one-of-a-kind sculptural chairs created by Garry Knox Bennett, one of the foremost contemporary studio furniture makers in America. Inspired by well-known furniture designers and architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, George Nakashima and Gerrit Rietveld, Bennett’s wit and imagination come to life with such chairs as the Great Granny Rietveld and Wiggle Wright. |
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July 12, 2008 – November 9, 2008 |
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Gifted: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection
Like most art museums, the Delaware Art Museum has acquired the majority of its permanent collection through gifts. This exhibition features more than 30 works of art given to the Delaware Art Museum since its reopening in June 2005. |
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| October 11, 2008 – January 4, 2009 |
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Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks, who died in 2006 at age 93, documented crime and poverty, as well as its opposite—glamour. The first African American staff photographer for Life magazine, Parks tackled the harsh truth and dignity of the black urban and rural poor in the United States. He was also a major fashion photographer, providing spreads for respected magazines such as Vogue. |
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| November 1, 2008 – January 11, 2009 |
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Masterpieces in Miniature
The Delaware Art Museum is pleased to announce the return of its family-friendly attraction for the holidays. The Museum has again invited premier miniature artists from the region to produce miniatures based on an existing masterpiece. Each of the imaginative installations will be inspired by a masterpiece of art, many from the Museum’s own collections. |
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| November 22, 2008 – January 11, 2009 |
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Frank E. Schoonover: An Artist for All Seasons
Frank E. Schoonover was a prolific American illustrator during the “Golden Age of Illustration,” the early 20th century. This overview of his extensive career is mounted to celebrate the publication of a catalogue raisonné of the illustrator’s work, written and published by The Frank E. Schoonover Fund, Inc. The exhibition features works from private collections, the Schoonover Fund Collection, and the Delaware Art Museum.
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January 31, 2009 – April 12, 2009 |
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Paintings from the Reign of Victoria:
The Royal Holloway Collection, London
This exhibition includes 60 of the most important paintings of the Victorian period, encompassing the full range of subject matter and style. The paintings were acquired by Thomas Holloway and installed in the women’s college he founded in 1879, still in operation today. |
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| May 2, 2009 – July 12, 2009 |
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Ancestry and Innovation:
African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum
This exhibition features textiles, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by contemporary African American artists. From vibrant quilts and weathervanes to provocative assemblages and paintings, this wide-ranging exhibition explores the artistic expressions of self-taught African American artists from the rural South and the urban North. |
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| August 22, 2009 – October 4, 2009 |
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Fifty Works for the First State:
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
This exhibition of Minimal and Conceptual art is comprised of 50 works of art that the Delaware Art Museum received as a gift from the renowned collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. |
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