WAM Fine Art Travels the World

Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:06

Wichita, KS - Certain works from the Wichita Art Museum’s permanent collection are being seen around the world. That’s right, many of the paintings housed in Wichita are sought by arts institutions from London to New York. “The opportunity to loan works from the Wichita Art Museum’s collection is a way of bringing international attention to Wichita and to the exceptional City-owned collection,” explains Stephen Gleissner, chief curator at the Wichita Art Museum. “Having our collection featured in outside exhibitions and catalogs speaks to the quality of our institution.” Currently, one of the Museum’s most prized paintings, Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Child, is traveling with the exhibition American in Paris, 1860–1900. More than 60,000 visitors are expected to see the exhibition at The National Gallery of London until May 21, 2006. The exhibition, featuring the Cassatt, will then travel to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where it will be on display from June 25 to September 24, 2006. For more information about the exhibition log on to The National Gallery Other works currently on tour: John George Brown's painting The Beggars (1978.102, 1863) is included in the exhibition American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America. This exhibition will be featured at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, CA Feb. 1, 2006 to May 7, 2006, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC July 4, 2006 to September 17, 2006 and the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine November 1, 2006 to Jan. 7, 2007. Harold Weston's Sleeping Nude (1974.11, 1925) will be in the exhibition Wild Exuberance: Harold Weston's painting Adirondack Art on view at The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY May 27, 2005 to November 15, 2006. Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting East Rive -No. 1 (1979.35, 1926) will soon be featured in the exhibition Earth and Sky: Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont June 24 to October 31, 2006. The Wichita Art Museum opened in 1935. It is home to The Roland P. Murdock Collection, one of the premier collections of American Art in the country. The Museum is proud to be supported through public and private funds, owned by the City of Wichita and managed by a private entity, Wichita Art Museum, Inc. Visit The Wichita Art Museum

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