Famous Faces: European Portraits on Paper
On view now through the summer

This installation presents a selection of European portraits created on paper from the Norton collection. The works date from the 17th and 18th centuries, and were created by French and Flemish artists and engravers.

Mary Cassatt: Color and Line
On view now through the summer

This stunning exhibition of eleven works by America’s most famous and beloved Impressionist spans the entire range of Cassatt’s achievement as a graphic artist—with exquisite drawings and watercolors, hand-colored prints, and large-scale pastels. All belong to the Norton Collection or have been promised as future bequests.

Will Henry Stevens (1881-1949)
On view now through the summer

An artist deeply committed to both the landscape of the American South, and to Modernism as a stylistic strategy, Stevens worked simultaneously in an abstract mode clearly influenced by Europeans such as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and in a more traditional and representational manner. The fifteen works presented in this exhibition range from early to late in the artist’s career and thanks to a recent gift by his daughter, all now belong to the Norton Collection.

Recent Acquisitions
On view now through the summer

The truly international character of modern and contemporary photography is epitomized by this selection of works made by artists such as Graciela Iturbide (Mexican), Drew Tal (Israeli), Taryn Simon (American), Tacita Dean (British), and Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao (Taiwanese); all were acquired—as purchases and gifts—between January 2009 and June 2010.

Ordinary Moments
On view now through the summer

The paintings and sculpture on view here span four decades and reveal a sometimes irreverent and sobering take on such traditional subjects as still life and the figure. The earliest paintings are considered Pop Art - a reference to popular culture and current media that became a new source of inspiration. Later artists are equally liberated by their immediate world and continue to embrace it.

The Big Gesture
On view now through the summer

We readily associate the highly gestural painting styles by artists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning with the mid-twentieth century. Grouped under the term “Abstract Expressionism” or “the New York School,” which also defined other versions of abstraction, their robust display of applying paint was seemingly impossible to ignore by artists who immediately followed them.