One of the Cummer Museum’s largest, heaviest, and most important paintings, which has not left the walls of the Museum since 1995, is now on a three-venue tour as part of a major exhibition, Bouguereau & America. The painting, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Return from the Harvest, c. 1878, will travel to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and the San Diego Museum of Art through January 2020.
Apr
10
The Cummer Museum Lends Artwork to New Exhibition at Norman Rockwell Museum
by Marketing Assistant, in Art, Behind the Scenes
Jun
07
WRITTEN BY: SAMANTHA AHNEN, MARKETING INTERN The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens is thrilled to be part of an upcoming exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum, located in Stockwell, […]
#5WomenArtists – Pauline Vallayer-Moutet
by Cummer Museum Admin, Director of Art Education in Art, Education
Mar
14
In a 1950 letter to London based art dealer Paul Wengraf, from whom she often purchased artworks, Mrs. Cummer decribes where she has hung some of her paintings:
“In my library are some of my dearest things […] On the right of this picture [1] is a painting of a French interior by Pauline Vallayer-Moutet.[2] This is a canvas of almost the exact size of the Morland. [3] The subject portrays two maids polishing the brasses, as only the French can do, and the strong light from a window, such as Vermeer would use in his pictures, streams into the room. And this, by the way, was my first investment in painting (the Paul King picture having been earlier acquired as a gift), and was purchased about 1905, nearly fifty years ago.”
Reproduction of original frame by Diego Salazar Antique Frames, New York, given in honor of Jack Lee Scott by Jane McRae Scott, 2003. After a strict academic training as a […]
Sep
13
William Bouguereau’s realistic, sometimes sentimental style came to represent the academic tradition in nineteenth century French art. He was both a commercial and critical success, exhibiting often in the French […]
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