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Recent Acquisitions Releases Press Release Archive |
New Year Brings New Exhibitons to TMA Tyler, TX—If you like change, you will love the Tyler Museum of Art in 2007. If you don’t like change, you will love the Tyler Museum of Art in 2007. Impossible? Not at all. Exciting traveling exhibitions and favorites from the Museum’s permanent collection will provide both diversity and continuity throughout the year, and encourage many return visits. For those who love traditional paintings and familiar scenes, all three TMA galleries are currently filled with crowd-pleasers. Love for This Land—Paintings of the Southwest from the Southside Bank Collection is the fourth installation of the TMA’s “Tyler Collects” series focusing on significant local collections. Some 79 works from Southwestern artists were selected for this show from Southside Bank’s corporate collection. Two smaller but very inspiring exhibitions by East Texas artists fill the North Gallery. The Past is Present: Watercolors by A.C. Gentry showcases the career of this noted Tyler artist, well-known for his regional landscapes and familiar homesteads. Albino Hinojosa: An Awareness of Familiar Things exhibits the work of Linden, Texas-native Hinojosa, a nationally-recognized illustrator who taught art for many years at Louisiana Tech. All three of the current exhibitions were organized by the Tyler Museum of Art. As these three popular shows close January 14, TMA staff will rapidly begin installing the Museum’s first major exhibition for 2007, James McNeill Whistler: Selected Works from the Hunterian Art Gallery. This unique exhibition, organized by International Arts & Artists of Washington, DC, brings 129 pieces from the famed artist’s estate to the United States for the first time, including paintings, prints, watercolors, manuscripts and personal belongings such as Whistler’s silverware and porcelain. Considered a “biographical exhibition,” visitors will experience highlights from 40 years of one of America’s most innovative and internationally-recognized artists. Most of the personal pieces were donated to the Hunterian Gallery in Scotland by Whistler’s sister-in-law following the artist’s death. While his most-noted Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (1871), more commonly known as Portrait of Whistler’s Mother, is not part of the exhibition, other significant paintings, including Red and Black: The Fan (c. 1891–1894), and etchings such as The Palaces (c. 1879), will be shown at the TMA. Educational lectures, docent-led tours, chamber music, and other special events are planned in conjunction with the exhibition, which opens February 3 and closes April 29. Tyler Museum of Art is the only Texas venue and the last stop for the exhibition before it returns to Scotland. If beautiful works by a famous 19th-century painter aren’t what excites you, then perhaps the TMA exhibition opening May 5 will be more your style. Selections from the Laura B. And Daniel D. Boeckman Collection of Mexican and Latin American Folk Art is full of dynamic, colorful and exotic works by little-known but very talented artists. Using animal images and religious iconography as common inspirational themes, along with native materials and natural resources, Mexican folk artists have created a wonderful artistic genre that is both familiar yet surprising. The Boeckman Collection is considered one of the nation’s premier private collections of Mexican and Latin American folk art; selections will be shown in the North Gallery through November 4. Also opening in May and remaining through 2007 will be works from TMA’s 700-plus piece permanent collection. Familiar favorites and special selections will rotate through the Bell Gallery, including several newly acquired pieces, never before presented to the public by the Tyler Museum of Art. In addition, the TMA will feature its third annual High School Art Exhibition for a month-long venue in March in the Museum’s Carmichael Gallery. “It may be cliché to say ‘we’ve got something for everybody’ but this year that certainly will be true,” said Kimberley Tomio, TMA director. “From sharing the works of one of the world’s most famous artists to debuting the works of the world’s future artists, the Tyler Museum of Art is committed to its mission of enriching the lives of our citizens and visitors. We hope everyone will take advantage of this year’s bounty of visual arts.” All 2007 exhibitions except James McNeill Whistler: Selected Works from the Hunterian Art Gallery are free to the public. Admission to the Whistler exhibition is free to TMA members, $8 for adults, $6 for seniors (65+) and students with ID, $3 for children 12 and under, and free for children under 2. (Note: strollers are not permitted in the galleries.) Exhibition hours are Tuesdays–Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Call 903-595-1001 for group tours and special event ticketing. |