BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Artist to Artist

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Artist to Artist:

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Description of Pictures: Artist to Artist
October 1, 2021 — September 3, 2023
The work of the artist is often thought of as solitary. We picture the painter confronting a blank canvas alone, studio door figuratively shut. Yet few artists thrive in a social vacuum. Even those who prefer to work in private will seek out other artists for myriad reasons: mentorship and inspiration, practical assistance, a sense of solidarity or shared purpose. Artists are often each other’s first and most important audience, providing vital support before critics, curators, and collectors arrive on a scene. Two artists caring about one another’s work is fundamental to the creation of any art “world,” large or small.
Assembled from the museum’s extensive twentieth-century holdings, Artist to Artist features eight pairings: Yayoi Kusama and Joseph Cornell, George Tooker and Paul Cadmus, Loïs Mailou Jones and Elizabeth Catlett, Frank O'Hara and Grace Hartigan, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Bumpei Usui, Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, Joan Brown and Elmer Bischoff, and Ray Yoshida and Christina Ramberg. Each pairing represents two figures whose trajectories intersected at a creatively crucial moment, whether as student and teacher, professional allies, or ardently close friends. Based in common goals or shared life experience, the personal interactions represented by these works helped shape and sustain American art.
Within this exhibition is "New on View," an ongoing series of installations that place recently acquired artworks—both gifts and museum purchases—in dialogue with works already in SAAM's collection. The featured watercolor paintings by Yayoi Kusama were discovered in 2018 by an archivist working in the museum's Joseph Cornell Study Center and then transferred into SAAM's collection the following year. Two of the four watercolors are displayed at a time in this installation, and it is the first time these artworks have been exhibited.
Melissa Ho, curator of twentieth-century art, organized the exhibition.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. A2A_211007_005.JPG: Bumpei Usui Portrait of Yasuo Kuniyoshi in His Studio, 1930
2. A2A_211007_015.JPG: Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Bumpei Usui A Shared Background Portrait of a Friend
3. A2A_211007_021.JPG: Yasuo Kuniyoshi Strong Woman and Child, 1925
4. A2A_211007_031.JPG: Artist to Artist
5. A2A_211007_043.JPG: Yayoi Kusama and Joseph Cornell "Birds of a Feather" A Decade of Friendship
6. A2A_211007_046.JPG: Yayoi Kusama Fire, ca 1954
7. A2A_211007_064.JPG: Joseph Cornell
8. A2A_211007_068.JPG: For Grace, After a Party
9. A2A_211007_074.JPG: Elizabeth Catlett Singing Head, 1980
10. A2A_211007_078.JPG: Lois Mailou Jones and Elizabeth Catlett Generations of Learning Fetish and Form
11. A2A_211007_088.JPG: Lois Mailou Jones Les Fetiches, 1938
12. A2A_211007_104.JPG: Grace Hartigan Frank O'Hara, 1926-1966
13. A2A_211007_113.JPG: George Tooker The Waiting Room, 1959
14. A2A_211007_126.JPG: Elmer Bischoff Two Bathers, 1960
15. A2A_211007_131.JPG: Joan Brown and Elmer Bischoff "Follow Your Nose" Painting the Figure
16. A2A_211007_136.JPG: Joan Brown Nude, Dog, Clouds, 1963
17. A2A_211007_148.JPG: George Tooker and Paul Cadmus Friends and Lovers Seen and Unseen
18. A2A_211007_163.JPG: Paul Cadmus Night in Bologna, 1958
19. A2A_211007_177.JPG: Ray Yoshida Partial Evidences II, 1973
20. A2A_211007_201.JPG: Christina Ramberg Brunet's Sleeves #1 and #2, 1974
21. A2A_211007_205.JPG: Jackson Pollock Going West, ca 1934-1935
22. A2A_211007_212.JPG: Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock A Slow Start Role Reversal
23. A2A_211007_226.JPG: Thomas Hart Benton Wheat, 1967
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