Major Paintings by Jules Olitski
TOLEDO, OHIO–A major overview of work by acclaimed American painter Jules Olitski comes to the Toledo Museum of Art this spring. Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski brings together more than 30 significant paintings from public and private collections, highlighting important periods and themes of Olitski’s career.
“This exhibition re-examines Olitski’s entire career, not just the early years that brought him to public attention. Here we can see why he is to be appreciated as one of America’s most outstanding modern painters,” said Brian Kennedy, director of the Museum.
The traveling exhibition was organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Most recently shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, the exhibition will be on display in TMA’s Canaday Gallery from May 31–Aug. 26, 2012. Art historians E. A. Carmean Jr., Alison de Lima Greene and Karen Wilkin curated the show, which will later go to the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C.
The exhibition contains works spanning five decades and is arranged in groupings from each period: Stain paintings, Spray paintings, Baroque paintings, High Baroque paintings and the Late paintings. Kennedy noted that Olitski painted through the night, often not ending until daybreak. Lighting in the Canaday Gallery for this exhibition evokes the atmosphere in which the painter worked.
The Toledo showing of Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski is made possible by members of the Toledo Museum of Art and sponsored in part by Key Bank. The exhibition also is supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council’s sustainable grant program funded by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Admission is free. A fully illustrated companion book ($40) accompanies the exhibition and is available in the Museum Store.
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