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TREASURES FROM THE BOSTON ATHENÆUM Summer Installation 2009
May 27 - August 28, 2009
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John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) Mrs. William Turner (Ann Dumaresq), 1767 Pastel on paper, 23 1/4 x 17 1/2 in. Gift of Mrs. Howland S. Warren, Mrs. Nelson W. Aldrich, Howard M. Turner, Jr., and Mrs. Richard M. Jackson, 1987
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This summer, the Art Department presents “TREASURES FROM THE BOSTON ATHENÆUM: Summer Installation 2009,” which will be on view in the Athenæum’s first-floor gallery.
The paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and manuscripts in this summer installation draw entirely from the Athenæum’s collections and add to the wealth of objects already on display on the first floor of the building.
Over forty artists are represented, ranging from Italian and Scottish to American, and from the 16th century to the present.
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The “treasures” are as varied in style as in subject matter and include: a portrait by the sixteenth-century Bolognese master Annibale Carracci; works by American painters John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Washington Allston, John Singer Sargent, Maud Morgan, and Polly Thayer; sculptures by Horatio Greenough, Thomas Crawford, and William Morris Hunt; views of Boston, painted and photographed; and nineteenth-century chromolithography.
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Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) Portrait of a Man, 1592. Oil on canvas, 20 1/2 x 16 in. Athenaeum purchase, 1828
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Augustine H. Folsom (1845-1926) Long Wharf and Central Wharf, Boston, ca. 1880. Photograph, 15 1/2 x 20 in.Provenance unknown
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Since its founding in 1807, the Athenæum has always collected a wide range of objects as well as books. The result is a remarkably hybrid collection, and this installation provides a rare opportunity to look closely at the selected treasures – both familiar favorites and seldom seen items – from the Athenæum’s collections.
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Charles Frederick Thomas (1817-1904) Twenty Four Ton Passenger Engine, ca. 1850. Chromolithograph with metallic powders, 27 1/2 x 40 5/8 in. (sight). Athenaeum purchase, Katharine Lane Weems Print Fund, 2008
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Past exhibitions at the Boston Athenæum Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery:
Vanderwarker's Pantheon: Minds and Matter in Boston, February 11 – May 9, 2009.
Albert Wein, American Modernist Gallery Exhibition, September 16 - November 29, 2008.
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