On View
Cézanne & American Modernism
Sept. 13, 2009 – Jan. 3, 2010
The Montclair Art Museum, in collaboration with The Baltimore Museum of Art, will present the first exhibition to examine fully the influence of Paul Cézanne upon the development of American modernism. Click here for more information.
Out of the Vault: 95 Years of Collecting at MAM
August 8, 2009–Summer 2010
Marking the occasion of MAM’s 95th anniversary, and its distinction as the first institution in New Jersey designed as a museum, the exhibition celebrates the Museum’s unique focus on American and Native American art in this installation of over 60 works of art. The works selected include 23 recent acquisitions and nearly 40 familiar treasures. Twenty-one of the works in the show have never before been on view at the Museum. Many of the most recent acquisitions are by living artists, a testament to the origins of the Museum as an institution that collected the contemporary art of its time, with the donation of such works as Childe Hassam’s Summer at Cos Cob (1902) by MAM co-founder William T. Evans in 1915.
Myths, Memories, and Inspirations: A Mural by Dan Fenelon
November 1, 2009 – Fall 2010
Dan Fenelon is best known for his vibrantly colored works that include sculpture, toys, paintings, and murals. His work is a blending of cartooning, street art, graffiti, and ancient tribal motifs. Dan will create this site-specific mural for MAM’s Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation Art Stairway. The mural, inspired by works from the Montclair Art Museum’s permanent collection, re-imagines these images with Fenelon’s distinct tribal style. Easily apparent in the mural is Tony Abeyta’s Hunters Procession, 1995, animal imagery found on both totem poles and transformation masks, as well as various pottery, basketry, and katsina images found within MAM’s Rand Gallery. Fenelon, like Abeyta, believes that “if paintings are successful, they should communicate a powerful force, a feeling that is contained in all of us.” In this work, Fenelon is able to translate these feelings and inspirations of native art into his own vocabulary and vision.
