Currents--University of Rochester

July 3
2000

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Still lifes take center stage at MAG

Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Glass and Fruit (1939). Oil on canvas. The Phillips Collection.

he Memorial Art Gallery's newest major exhibition, Twentieth-Century Still-Life Paintings from the Phillips Collection, showcases 60 paintings by 38 European and American artists, including such modern masters as Pierre Bonnard, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Rousseau, Ben Shahn, and Milton Avery. The artwork is from the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.--described as "America's first museum of modern art"--which was founded by Duncan and Marjorie Phillips in the 1920s.

The still life--an arrangement of objects on a surface, usually in a studio setting--has intrigued artists for centuries. "With its intimate scale and inward-looking composition, a still-life painting presents a microcosmic view of the world," wrote Stephen Phillips, associate curator at the Phillips Collection and curator of MAG's exhibition.

Complementing the exhibition is a selection of 10 seldom-seen still lifes from MAG's storage vaults, and an activity area where adults and children may construct and draw their own still lifes.

Twentieth-Century Still-Life Paintings from the Phillips Collection remains on view in the Grand Gallery through Sunday, August 20.

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