Ackland Art Museum | Traveling Exhibitions

Past Traveling Exhibitions
	Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Alison and Lezley Saar Family Legacies is the first exhibition of the Saars’ work to examine the relationship of these three important artists to each other within the context of the family’s distinct contributions to art history. It will explore the transmission of traditions, materials and subject matter within this exceptional family of artists, as well as provide the public with an historical understanding of how different generations of women use art to express changing ideas about gender, race and ethnicity. Lezley Saar, Anastacia—Escrava e Martir Negra, 1998, mixed media collage, private collection
	Dark Jewels: Chinese Black and Brown Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection Herbert and Eunice Shatzman of North Carolina have collected Chinese ceramics for over twenty years. The exhibition, Dark Jewels: Chinese Black and Brown Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection, features 70 examples from a 408-year period (960 to 1368) when such wares reached their peak in variety, quality and popularity.
	Apocalypse Then: Images of Destruction, Prophecy and Judgment from Dürer to the Twentieth Century This exhibition, drawn from the collection of the Ackland Art Museum and the University’s Rare Book Collection, presents selected works of art inspired by apocalyptic writing or thought. Beginning with Dürer’s famous series of woodcuts interpreting The Revelation of Saint John, the exhibition includes images from the following 500 years. Itinerary: Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL January 18 - April 3, 2005 Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL September 17 - November 13, 2005 Exhibition retires November 2005
	Masters of the Medium: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH March 30 - May 23, 2004 Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL November 17, 2004 - January 16, 2005 Marten De Vos, Antwerp 1532 - 1603, Allegory of Sight, about 1580 - 1590, pen and brown ink with brown wash, 7 1/2 x 10 inches Ackland Fund, 79.62.1
	Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa Ackland Art Museum December 19, 1999 – March 26, 2000 National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution May 21 – September 3, 2000 Tampa Museum of Art December 10, 2000 - January 28, 2001 MOYO OKEDIJI, Nigerian, born 1956. *The Dutchman, 1995*. Acrylic on canvas, Ackland Fund, 2001.8
	Fresh Woods and Pastures New: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings from the Peck Collection Ackland Art Museum October 3, 1999 – January 2, 2000 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University January 29 – March 26, 2000 Worcester Art Museum December 16, 2000 – February 2, 2000 Rembrandt van Rijn, Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam, *Canal and boats with a distant view of Amsterdam*. Reed pen and brush in dark brown (iron-gall) ink; dark brown ink framing lines, From the collection of Leena and Sheldon Peck
	Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley Ackland Art Museum January 25 – March 29, 1998 Babcock Galleries, NY April 20 – June 20,1999 Marsden Hartley, *Morgenrot*, 1932. Oil on canvas, Private Collection, Courtesy Babcock Galleries, New York
	Screens and Scrolls: Japanese Art from the Collection of the Ackland Art Museum Ackland Art Museum February 16 – April 13, 1999 Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College April 8 – June 18,2000 Fujiwara Nobuyoshi, Late Edo Period, 1716-1868 C.E. *Figures Viewing Cherry Blossoms* (detail), ca. 1800-1840 C.E., Handscroll; color on paper, Ackland Fund, 84.39.1

Past Traveling Exhibitions