Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum

"OBJECT OF DEVOTION: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum" presents 60 beautifully-carved alabaster panels and free-standing figures that were displayed in the homes, chapels and churches of both aristocratic and non-aristocratic Christians in the 15th and 16th Centuries.
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Current Touring Exhibitions
Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: THE ROYAL HOLLOWAY COLLECTION, LONDON
This exhibition showcases 60 extraordinary paintings illustrating some of the highest achievements in figurative and landscape art of the 19th century.  Acquired by Thomas Holloway to enhance the women’s college he had founded in 1879, the Royal Holloway Collection includes many of the most visible and praised “modern canvasses” in London in the 1880s.  From scenes of contemporary life, as well as historical events, to landscapes, animal studies, and marine subjects, the exhibition illustrates the Victorian belief in art as the ultimate civilizing influence.  Art was seen as a teaching tool with visual beauty as its medium, and Thomas Holloway sought out only the best examples, regardless of cost.  Included are seminal works by artists such as Sir Edwin Landseer, William Powell Frith, Sir John Everett Millais, David Roberts, and Edwin Long.
Edwin Longsden Long, "The Babylonian Marriage Market," 1875, oil on canvas, Royal Holloway, University of London
   
 Theodore Alexander Weber, "Dover Pilot and Fishing Boat," n.d. (before 1882), oil on canvas, Royal Holloway, University of London  William Powell Frith, "The Railway Station," 1862, oil on canvas, Royal Holloway, University of London Sir John Everett Millais, "The Princes in the Tower," 1878, oil on canvas, Royal Holloway, University of London
A. Soloman, "Departure of the Diligence," 1862, oil on canvas, Royal Holloway, University of London Sir Edwin Landseer, " Man Proposes God Disposes," 1864, oil on canvas, Royal Holloway, University of London Joshua Hargrave Sams Mann, "The Cauld Blast," 1876, oil on canvas, Royal Holloway, University of London
   

Dates:  October 2008 – May 2011

 2008  October  12 - January 4, 2009  Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa, OK)
 2009  January 31 - April 12  Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, DE)
   May 7 - July 26 Yale Center for British Art, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
   August 15 - October 25 Brigham Young University Museum of Art (Provo, UT) 
   November 21- February 14, 2010 Huntsville Museum of Art (Huntsville, AL) 
 2010   March 12 - April 18  Society of the Four Arts (Palm Beach, FL)
   May 27 - September 5

Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec  (CANADA)
   September 25 - Janurary 3, 2011

Chrysler Museum of Art (Nofolk, VA)
 2011  January 22 - May 2 OPEN



                                                                                                                       
 
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