Happy Birthday Charles Sheeler!

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Experiment Station

Charles Sheeler, Skyscrapers, 1922. Oil on canvas, 20 x 13 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1926

Born this day in 1883 was American artist Charles Sheeler. His work Syscrapers, on view in Made in the USA, was the first painting by the artist to enter a museum collection. It is one of Sheeler’s most accomplished assimilations of European modernism into a uniquely American style know today as precisionism. Sheeler elicited beauty from the stark reality of New York office buildings and the utilitarian aspects of industrial America.

Close Up On American Art

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Experiment Station

Close ups of three works currently on view in the Made in the USA exhibition.

Can you guess which works these three detail shots are from? Leave your answers in the comments.

Left detail hint: this work is on view in the Abstract Expressionism gallery of Made in the USA.
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Center detail hint: This work has a numerical title.
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Right detail hint: This artist’s last name is also a beloved bird.
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Phillips Masterworks Now on View in Daejeon

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Experiment Station

On July 2, the magnificent exhibition of 85 Impressionist to Modern masterworks from The Phillips Collection opened at the Daejeon Museum of Art in Korea. Nearly 900 people attended the opening celebration, mostly from Daejeon, the country’s hub for science and education. With the recent announcement of the discovery of a mystery man painted beneath Picasso’s The Blue Room, there was particular buzz around that painting. The exhibition will be in view through October 9.

Exhibition opening at the Daejeon Museum of Art

The ribbon cutting for the exhibition opening included Phillips Chief Registrar and Director of Special Initiatives Joe Holbach, Daejeon Mayor Sun-Taek Lee and other local politicians, Daejeon Museum of Art Director Jong-Hyup Lee, exhibition sponsor MBC President and CEO Chang-ok Kim, and many others

Exhibition opening at the Daejeon Museum of Art, which was also the 50th anniversary celebration of exhibition sponsor MBC

Visitors in the Daejeon Museum of Art galleries