Posts Tagged ‘Museum exhibitions’
Picasso and Chicago at The Art Institute of Chicago
The “Picasso and Chicago” exhibit marks the special hundred-year relationship of Pablo Picasso with the city of Chicago and features more than 250 works selected from the The Art Institute of Chicago’s own exceptional holdings and from private collections throughout city. Representing Picasso’s innovations in nearly every media—paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and ceramics—the works not only tell the story of Picasso’s…
Read MoreAmerican Vesuvius: The Aftermath of Mount St. Helens by Frank Gohlke and Emmet Gowin at Cleveland Museum of Art
“Gowin and Gohlke were both innovative, influential practitioners of landscape photography when each decided, independently, to photograph the aftermath of the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of this volcano in Washington State,” says Barbara Tannenbaum, the organizing curator and the curator of photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art. “Photographing at Mount St. Helens transformed their approaches to landscape and forever…
Read More“Craig Blacklock’s Lake Superior” at Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Craig Blacklock’s large format photographs capture the space and beauty of the Lake Superior region’s environment. Blacklock has published seventeen books including: The Lake Superior Images; Minnesota’s North Shore; and A Voice Within: The Lake Superior Nudes. Also, Blacklock is a conservationist, co-founding the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, and helping establish the Lake Superior Water Trail of Minnesota. Currently, Blacklock is a Senior Fellow at the…
Read MoreCecelia Condit: Within a Stone’s Throw at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
As a manufacturer we get many requests out of the ordinary. We try and do as many as possible and when we see exhibition shots like this it makes it all worthwhile. The preparator at MMOCA called to ask if we could make a frame that was 59 1/8" x 167 3/4" long and they needed it…
Read More“From Alice to Zeus: The Art of John Rocco” at the Orlando Museum of Art
John Rocco is an award winning author and illustrator of children's picture books. The show will include examples of the cover art Rocco created for the bestselling Percy Jackson series and the Kane Chronicles as well as a selection of illustrations from his popular children’s books Blackout, Moonpowder, Wolf! Wolf! and Fu Finds the Way. This…
Read MoreThe Art of Oleg Vassiliev at The Museum of Russian Art
The Art of Oleg Vassiliev surveys the career of one of the most important unofficial Soviet artists. This exhibition is the third in the series of remarkable one-man shows under the umbrella title Discovering Russian 20th Century Masters. The exhibition of Vassiliev’s works on paper includes the exciting House with the Mezzanine series, seven children’s books illustrated by…
Read MoreJudy Cotton’s “The Fates” acquired by New Britain Museum of American Art
It is always fun hearing from our customers. Dear Metroframe, Judy Cotton’s large painting, “The Fates” has just been acquired and now hangs in the Contemporary Galleries (next to a Louise Nevilson) of THE NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM of AMERICAN ART. You might recognize the frame! Yale Kneeland
Read MoreA behind the scenes look: the making of the “Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein” exhibition at The Baltimore Museum of Art
One of our recent projects was to make frames for The Baltimore Museum of Art’s “Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein” exhibition. In doing research on the exhibition I noticed the funding came because of the collaboration the museum did with the students from The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the Maryland Institute College…
Read MorePrint by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein at The Baltimore Museum of Art
This is an exhibition of more than 350 prints by American and European artists working in series from the late 15th through the 21st centuries, including Canaletto, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Ed Ruscha. The exhibition presents a rare opportunity to view 29 series of multiple images in…
Read MoreHarry Callahan at 100 at National Gallery of Art
One of the exhibitions we worked on this summer is the Harry Callahan exhibition for the National Gallery of Art (NGA). Because the NGA is one of my favorite museums, I started to do a little research on the photographer and the museum. The exhibition marks the centenary of his birth (1912 – 1999). It is…
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