upcoming exhibitions - The Phillips Collection

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
The information below was updated December 2016 and is subject to change.
All exhibitions are organized by The Phillips Collection, unless otherwise noted.
Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque
February 4‒April 30, 2017
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) captured the heart of Parisian nightlife in dynamic cabaret and
café-concert scenes inspired by the city’s burgeoning entertainment district. A frequent visitor to lively
hotspots in Montmartre, like the Chat Noir, Mirliton, and Moulin Rouge, his record of local amusements
fashioned a portrait of modern Parisian life. Toulouse-Lautrec’s arrival in the City of Light coincided with
a resurgence in printmaking, and his experiments with lithography revolutionized the field. For the first
time in the United States, Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque presents one of the foremost
collections of the artist’s lithographs and posters. Drawn from the artist’s most prolific years (1891–
1899), these iconic images and rarely exhibited unique proofs provide insight into his innovative and
complex printmaking process. Encompassing nearly 100 examples of incomparable quality and color,
these prints celebrate the premier performers of the belle époque—Aristide Bruant, Marcelle Lender,
Cha-U-Kao, and others—cleverly caricatured through Toulouse-Lautrec’s perceptive skills of observation
and transformation. His modern aesthetic and sharp wit immortalized Paris’s celebrity elite, embraced
bohemian culture, and fueled the public imagination. The exhibition is organized by the Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts and The Phillips Collection.
George Condo: The Way I Think–Drawings, 1974–2016
March 11‒June 25, 2017
This exhibition marks the first major survey of drawings by American artist George Condo (b. 1957), a
prolific painter best known for his rich pictorial inventions, existential humor, and imaginative portraits
that incorporate a hybrid of art-historical influences, including Goya, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Manet,
Picasso, and Guston. Featuring 260 drawings—many of which have never been exhibited—the
exhibition was conceived and organized in collaboration with Condo, offering unprecedented insight
into the creative mind of one of today’s most celebrated artists.
Markus Lüpertz
May 27‒September 3, 2017
The Phillips Collection presents the first comprehensive survey in the United States of works by German
artist Markus Lüpertz (b. 1941), who began painting in a postwar Germany dominated by American
Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Comprised of nearly 50 works, the exhibition will trace Lüpertz’s
career from his most recent works back to the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition includes works from the
Donald Duck series, his “dithyrambic” pictures (pictorial inventions of sculptural forms in planar space),
and his provocative paintings of German motifs. The exhibition is curated by Director Dorothy Kosinski in
close collaboration with the artist and Michael Werner, Lüpertz’s longtime gallerist who gifted 46 works
of postwar German and Danish art to the Phillips in 2015.
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INTERSECTIONS
Arlene Shechet: From Here On Now
October 20, 2016‒May 7, 2017
New York-based sculptor Arlene Shechet is known for glazed ceramic sculptures that are off-kilter yet
hang in a balance between stable and unstable, teetering between the restraint of intellect and the
insistence of instinct. Her sculptures encourage circumambulation, often drawing upon Buddhist
iconography for inspiration. From Here On Now at the Phillips is both a poetic beckoning and a
description of the literal. The exhibition’s title also tweaks the familiar phrase “from here on out” to
bring attention to the present and as a reminder that the future is an abstraction. For this installation,
Shechet’s sculptures in ceramic, porcelain, and paper are exhibited across five galleries on two different
floors of the museum, extending from the original house to the annex. It includes six recently conserved
paintings by Forrest Bess, received as a gift from Miriam Schapiro Grosof in 2014, and on view at the
Phillips for the first time.
COLLECTION ON TOUR
Conversations: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from The Phillips Collection
CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain; until October 23, 2016
Conversations: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from The Phillips Collection presents paintings
arranged thematically from the early 19th century through the mid-20th century. Viewers encounter a
stunning array of masterpieces from the 19th century by Courbet, Daumier, Goya, Ingres, and Manet in
dialogue with the great Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters at the end of the century, such as
Cézanne, Degas, Monet, and van Gogh. Central to the exhibition are modern masters like Bonnard,
Kandinsky, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Rothko, Rousseau, and Soutine, who together have shaped the
look of the 20th century. Seminal works from recent decades by Diebenkorn, Gottlieb, Guston, and Louis
create an entirely new conversation for audiences in the 21st century.
American Mosaic: Picturing Modern Art through the Eye of Duncan Phillips
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; until November 6, 2016
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; February 25–May 21, 2017
This exhibition presents a thematic journey that reveals the breadth of America's modernist vision,
beginning with the great American art heroes of the late 19th century, whose work set the course for
modern art in the United States, and concluding with the Abstract Expressionists, whose new visual
language turned American art into a global force. Included are 65 works created between the 1860s and
1960s by artists such as Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Richard Diebenkorn, Thomas Eakins, Helen
Frankenthaler, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
A Modern Vision: European Masterworks From The Phillips Collection
Kimbell Art Museum, Dallas, Texas; May 14–August 13, 2017
A Modern Vision presents a selection of the most iconic European paintings and sculptures from The
Phillips Collection. Arranged thematically from the early 19th century through the mid-20th century, the
incomparable collection of European Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Expressionist art—and its
sources—exemplifies the distinctive eye of collector Duncan Phillips. Viewers will encounter a stunning
array of paintings from the first half of the 19th century by Courbet, Corot, Daumier, Delacroix, and
Ingres in dialogue with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces by Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin,
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Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Redon, and Sisley. Central to the exhibition are important works by Bonnard,
de Staël, Kandinsky, Matisse, Morandi, and Picasso, artists who shaped the look of the 20th century. A
Modern Vision, in the words of Duncan Phillips, gathers "congenial spirits among the artists from
different parts of the world and from different periods of time," demonstrating "that art is a universal
language." This exhibition is organized by The Phillips Collection.
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS
William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; October 9, 2016–January 16, 2017
Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Venice, Italy; February 11–May 28, 2017
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916), a renowned figure in the international art circles of the
late 19th and early 20th centuries, was a brilliant observer of contemporary life, an innovative painter,
and an influential teacher. Presented on the centennial of his death, this retrospective—the first in over
three decades—explores the interrelationships in Chase’s work across subject and media, from portraits
and figurative paintings, to urban park scenes, domestic interiors, still lifes, and landscapes. Featuring
more than 75 of the artist’s best artworks, this exhibition examines the full breadth of Chase’s
achievements spanning his four decade long career to shed new light on the artist’s aesthetic
philosophy, artistic practice, and working methods while positioning his art and life within the vibrant
international cultural climate at the turn of the century. The exhibition is organized by The Phillips
Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Venice, and the
Terra Foundation for American Art.
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; January 21–April 23, 2017
In an exhibition celebrating one of Seattle’s most beloved artists, the Seattle Art Museum presents Jacob
Lawrence’s complete Migration Series, following the reunion of all 60 panels at the Phillips. The epic
series depicts the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North
between the World Wars. Planned around the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, the exhibition is
organized by the Seattle Art Museum and made possible by loans from The Phillips Collection and the
Museum of Modern Art.
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