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American
Art for St. Petersburg’s 300th Anniversary,
a collection of 80 paintings and sculptures from five leading American
museums, which captured the spirit and energy of the American West between
1830 and 1940. The exhibit opened at the Marble Palace of the State
Russian Museum, St. Petersburg in April 2003, and moved to the State
Pushkin Museum, Moscow later in the summer of 2003.
Images from the Opening
of the American West Exhibit in State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
The Joslyn Museum, of Omaha, Nebraska,
and the Foundation for International Arts and Education accepted an
invitation from the State Russian Museum to mount a major exhibition
of American art in honor of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg.
Drawn from the collection of the Joslyn Museum and other important public
and private collections, the exhibition will feature art of the American
West from 1830-1940, including works by George Catlin, Frederick Remington,
Georgia O’Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, Maynard Dixon, Alfred Jacob
Miller, John Mix Stanley, Seth Eastman, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt,
Charles Russell, and founding members of the Taos Society. The eighty
works selected for display represented a total of fifty-five artists.
Thematic groupings for the exhibition included:
- Pre-Civil War Expedition Artists and
Indian Painters (Catlin, Bodmer, Miller, King
- Westward Expansion (Deas, Ranney,
Tait, Stanley, Eastman, Wimar, Nahl, Walker, Hays)
- Western Landscape (Moran, Bierstadt,
Hill, Keith)
- The Heroic West (Remington, Russell,
Schreyvogel, Leigh, Johnson, Seltzer, Farny)
- The Taos Society and the Southwest
(Couse, Phillips, Sharp, Ufer, Berninghaus, Blumenschein, Higgins, Fechin,
Gaspard)
- Second Generation Southwest (Dunton,
Hennings, Adams, Nordfeldt, Bauman, Bistram, Matulka)
- Western Modernists (Hassam, Hartley,
Sloan, Marin, O’Keeffe, Davis, Benton, N.C. Wyeth, Bellows, Dixon)
- Western Sculpture (Remington, Russell,
Proctor, J.E. Fraser)
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