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Newark Museum & Its Contribution to The Community, August 2019

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Newark Museum & Its Contribution to The Community, August 2019

Newark Museum

Looking northwest at en:Newark Museum from western corner of Washington Park on a sunny midday. Jim.henderson – Own work
 
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Established 1909
Location 49 Washington St
Newark, NJ, USA
Director Linda C. Harrison[1]
Public transit access Washington Park Station (Newark Light Rail)
Website newarkmuseum.org
James Street Commons Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Contributing property
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Newark Museum is located in Essex County,
New Jersey
Significant dates
Added to NRHP January 9, 1978
Designated NJRHP February 10, 1977

The Newark Museum, in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, is the state’s largest museum. It holds major collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world.

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Coffin lid of Henet-Mer Artwork  Created: 1076 BC–946 BC

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Feral Benga, Senegalese Dancer  Artwork  Artist: Richmond Barthé  Created: 1935

Newark Museum Google Arts & Culture  Female figure Artwork  Created: 1875–1925

Newark Museum Google Arts & Culture  Brewing Vessel  Artwork  Created: 1900–1999

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Limestone statue of a votary  Artwork  Created: 451 BC–426 BC

 Its extensive collections of American art include works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Joseph Stella, Tony Smith and Frank Stella.

MEZZANINE  Artist: Norman Rockwell

Artist: Norman Rockwell

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The Sheridan Theatre  Artwork  Artist: Edward Hopper  Created: 1937

Periods: Modern art, American Realism

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Twilight, “Short Arbiter ‘Twixt Day and Night” (Sunset)

Artwork  Artist: Frederic Edwin Church  Created: 1850 

Periods: Hudson River School, Luminism

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Portrait of Willie Gee

Artwork  Artist: Robert Henri  Created: 1904

Periods: Modern art, Realism, Ashcan School, American Realism

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The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The White Way II

Artwork

Artist: Joseph Stella

Created: 1920–1922

Periods: Modern art, Futurism, American modernism

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Slave Rape Story Quilt

Artwork

Artist: Faith Ringgold

Created: 1985

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Mrs. Charles Thursby  Artwork  Artist: John Singer Sargent

Location: Private collection  Created: 1872–1898  Genre: Portrait

Periods: Impressionism, Realism, American Impressionism

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The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge)

Artwork  Artist: Joseph Stella  Created: 1920–1922

Periods: Modern art, Futurism, American modernism

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The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The Port (The Harbor, The Battery)

Artwork  Artist: Joseph Stella  Created: 1920–1922

Periods: Modern art, Futurism, American modernism

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The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The White Way I

Artwork  Artist: Joseph Stella  Created: 1920–1922

Periods: Modern art, Futurism, American modernism

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The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted

Artwork Artist: Joseph Stella  Created: 1920–1922

Periods: Modern art, Futurism, American modernism

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Mountain Landscape with Cows and Sheep

Artwork  Artist: Robert S. Duncanson  Created: 1866

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Near Andersonville  Artwork  Artist: Winslow Homer

Created: 1865–1866  Periods: Realism, American Realism

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Party Time: Re-imagine America

Artwork  Artist: Yinka Shonibare  Created: 2008–2009

Dr. Martine Luther King   Artist: Stephen Summerstein

The Newark Museum’s Tibetan galleries are considered among the best in the world. The collection was purchased from Christian missionaries in the early twentieth century. The Tibetan galleries have an in-situ Buddhist altar that the Dalai Lama has consecrated.

Buddha Statue

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Vishnu Mandala  Artwork  Created: 1700–1899

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Ardhanarishvara  Artwork  Created: 1755–1790

Asian Art Birds

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Swayambunath Stupa and Patrons Interior Book Cover Painting Probably for an Edition of the Swayambu Purana

Artwork  Created: 1600–1799

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Atisha (982-1054) Kadam Order Founder; beginning of Sarma (New) Orders

Artwork  Created: 1600–1799

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Krishna and Satyabhama Rescue Princesses from the Demon-King Narakasura Illustrated folio from a dispersed Bhagavat Purana

Artwork  Created: 1750–1800

In addition to its extensive art collections, the Newark Museum is dedicated to natural science. It includes the Dreyfuss Planetarium and the Victoria Hall of Science which highlights selections from the museum’s 70,000 specimen Natural Science Collection. The Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden, located behind the museum, houses numerous works of contemporary sculpture and is the setting for community programs, concerts and performances. The garden is also home to a 1784 old stone schoolhouse and the Newark Fire Museum.

 The museum was founded in 1909 by librarian and reformer John Cotton Dana. As the charter described it, the purpose was “to establish in the City of Newark, New Jersey, a museum for the reception and exhibition of articles of art, science, history and technology, and for the encouragement of the study of the arts and sciences.” The kernel of the museum was a collection of Japanese prints, silks, and porcelains assembled by a Newark harmacist.[4]

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Ruan Xiaoqi, the Living King of Hell (Katsuenra Genshôshichi) from the series One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Suikoden All Told (Tsûzoku Suikoden gôketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori)

Artwork  Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi  Created: 1802–1830

Artist: Shen Zhen Lin

Originally located on the fourth floor of the Newark Public Library, the museum moved into its own purpose-built structure in the 1920s on Washington Park after a gift by Louis Bamberger. It was designed by Jarvis Hunt, who also designed Bamberger’s flagship Newark store.[5][6] Since then, the museum has expanded several times, to the south into the red brick former YMCA and to the north into the 1885 Ballantine House, by means of a four-year, $23 million renovation[7]. In 1990, the museum expanded to the west into an existing acquired building. At that time much of the museum, including the new addition, was redesigned by Michael Graves.

The museum had a mini-zoo with small animals for some twenty years, until August 2010.[8]

For the security of climate-sensitive artwork, the museum closed its front entrance to the public in 1997 to minimize the effects of temperature and humidity changes. However, in February 2018, after extensive renovation and the construction of a ramp for disabled access, the front doors were reopened.[9]

The museum is open from 12 to 5 pm from Wednesdays to Sundays and is free for Newark residents[10].

The Newark Black Film Festival is held every summer at the museum.

The Ballantine House

The Ballantine house is a preserved and restored house from the Victorian Era, designed by architect George Edward Harney. It was home to John Holme Ballantine, his wife, Jeannette, and their children, John, Robert, Alice, and Percy. Mr. Ballantine owned and ran a brewery in the Ironbound section of Newark. The house originally had twenty-seven rooms and three floors. In 1937, the Newark Museum bought the house and has since restored it to serve as galleries for the extensive decorative arts collections.

MakerSPACE at Newark Museum

The MakerSPACE at the Newark Museum is “an interactive area where visitors of all ages play, tinker and create as they make connections between the materials, processes and concepts of artwork and natural science objects in the Museum’s collections and their own creativity.” [11] John Cotton Dana, the founder of the museum, believed that “the worth of a museum is in its use.” [12] The museum has carried on this legacy of incorporation of the immediate community by opening a MakerSPACE. The museum even displays some of the artwork that is made in the space. The space includes many advanced tools, such as a laser cutter/engraver, 3D printers, a vinyl cutter, pottery wheels, sewing machines, relief and silk screen printing equipment, and various hand tools like saws, hammers, and screwdrivers. The MakerSPACE is open every Saturday 1-4PM for drop-in activities.

Reading session for children in the MakerSpace room

Testing, Science lesson for children in the MakerSpace room

Teacher, Ms. Garrido, Kai and Dr. Martine Luther King’s Portrait

Kai enjoyed playing with other children.

Kai was making his master artwork in “MakerSpace”

On Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Kai was very interested in playing with toy trains, at the “MakerSpace” room.

At the “MakerSpace” room.  Ms. Garrido introduced Kai to a group of people who were practicing a dance routine.

For more information please visit the following the links:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Museum

https://www.newarkmuseum.org/

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World War 1 and American Art

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World War 1 and American Art

The first major exhibition devoted to exploring the way in which American artists reacted to the First World War

Exhibition Info – Location: Fisher Brocks Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building

PAFA – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is free every Sunday during World War I and American Art courtesy of the Presenting Sponsors, Exelon Foundation and PECO.

Coinciding with the centenary of America’s involvement with the war, World War I and American Art will be the first major exhibition devoted to exploring the ways in which American artists responded to the First World War.

The first major museum exhibition to revisit this unprecedented global event through the eyes of American artists, World War I and American Art will transform the current understanding of art made during the war and in its wake. The war’s impact on art and culture was enormous, as nearly all of the era’s major American artists interpreted their experiences, opinions and perceptions of the conflict through their work.

World War I and American Art is organized around eight themes: Prelude: The Threat of War; Hartley and Hassam: Tenuous Neutrality; Debating the War; Mobilization; Modernists and the War; Battlefields; The Wounded and the Healers; and Celebration and Mourning. Arranged to follow the narrative of the war itself, the exhibition will show how artists chronicled their experiences of the unfolding war as it crept closer to home and then involved them directly as soldiers, relief workers, political dissenters, and official war artists.

The exhibition includes numerous high-profile loans, among them John Singer Sargent’s monumental painting Gassed from the Imperial War Museums in London. This painting, which has not been seen in the United States since 1999, was part of a commission to demonstrate British-American cooperation during the war.

 

Gassed by John Singer Sargent, 1919, oil on canvas, 90 1/2 x 240 inches.  Courtesy of the Imperial War Museums, London

Gassed is based on a haunting scene the artist witnessed at an evacuation checkpoint—rows of British soldiers, their heads wrapped in gauze to protect eyes temporarily blinded by mustard gas, being led by orderlies to a dressing station. The painting, widely regarded as Sargent’s late masterpiece, conveys the waste and tragedy of conflict and is one of the most disturbing humanistic commentaries on war. 

Gassed brings together many of the themes that are essential to the story of the war and this exhibition: differing perspectives on the war and its larger meanings; the camaraderie of soldiers at camp and in the field; the harrowing pain of combat, the dignity of those who sacrifice for their country, and the heartbreaking realities of war, regardless of its justification.

Sargent and his fellow artists had a leading role in chronicling the impact of World War I, crafting images that affected public opinion, supporting the U.S. government’s mobilization efforts, and helping to shape the way soldiers were remembered in its wake. Some artists showed the efforts of the Red Cross and other relief workers, or the effect that the war had on women and families on the home front. Others witnessed the devastation brought by the war on cities and on bodies, producing work haunted by the experience. Once the war finally ended, artists produced major paintings that commemorated Armistice celebrations or memorialized its human toll.

 

 John Singer Sargent, Gassed, 1919, oil on canvas, 90 1/2 x 240 inches.  Courtesy of the Imperial War Museums, London

 

Claggett Wilson Flower of Death-The Bursting of a Heavy Shell-Not as It Looks, but as It Feels and Sounds and Smells, c.  1918-19, watercolor and pencil on paperboard, 17 x 22 7/8 inches  Smithsonian American Art Museum.

 

 Hugh Henry Breckenridge, The Pestilence, c. 1918, oil on canvas, 65 3/16 x 80 ¼ inches  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Gift of the artist, 1928.10

Childe Hassam, Early Morning on the Avenue in May 1917, oil on canvas, 30 1/6 x 36 1/16 inches Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy.

Kerr Eby, Where Do We Go, c. 1919, lithograph, 18 x 23 inches National Gallery of Art, Washington.

George Benjamin Luks, Armistice Night, 1918, oil on canvas, 37 x 68 2/4 inches Whitney Museum of American Art.

Violet Oakley, Henry Howard Houston Woodward, 1921, oil on canvas, 53 x 35 inches Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Woodward, 1924.1

Gifford Beal, On The Hudson at Newburgh, 1918, oil on canvas, 36 x 58 ½ inches The Philips Collection, Estate of Gifford Beal, courtesy of Kraushaar Galleries, New York

World War I also unfolded when modernist art was being digested, adapted, and transformed by the American art world. Images made during the war reveal American artists in transition, using more experimental forms to capture the apocalyptic tenor of the conflict but also drawing on a straightforward realist manner to make the human experience accessible to their audience.

The exhibition features 160 works by 80 artists encompassing a broad variety of stylistic approaches, viewpoints, and experiences through paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, photographs, posters, and ephemera. A diverse array of both well-known and under-recognized artists is represented including Ivan Albright, George Bellows, Charles Burchfield, John Steuart Curry, Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, Henry Glintenkamp, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, Carl Hoeckner, Mary Reid Kelley, George Luks, John Marin, Violet Oakley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Joseph Pennell, Jane Peterson, Horace Pippin, Debra Priestly, Man Ray, Boardman Robinson, Norman Rockwell, John Singer Sargent, John Sloan, Edward Steichen, and Claggett Wilson. A small selection of work by contemporary artists who have confronted World War I’s legacy in their work will also appear, as well as a Fall 2016 exhibition of work by living military veterans in the Warrior Writers program in Philadelphia.

Community Education Programs

Born on the Battlefield: The Red Cross and World War I
February 25th, 2:00 pm (Lecture)

Observe and Create: The Artist Journal: A Scrapbook of Memories
March 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th, April 5, 11 – 3:30pm (Workshop)

Citizen Artists: World War I and the Creative Economy
March 11th and 12th, (Symposium and tours of special collections)

Observe and Create: Stamp, Stencil and Paint
March 18th, 11 – 3:00 pm (Workshop)

Family Arts Academy: Positive Postcards 
March 26th, 2:00 pm (Family art workshop)

Shoulder Arms and On Heights All is Peace at International House
March 30th, 7:00 pm (Film Screening)

Observe and Create: Exclamation!
April 8th, 11 – 3:00 pm, (Workshop)

The Process of Creation: Sabin Howard and the National WWI Memorial
April 8th, 2:00 pm (Lecture)

Press Coverage

New York Times: World War I – The Quick. The Dead. The Artists.

Washington Post: What Can Artists Do When the World Turns Ugly?

CBS: Positively Philadelphia: World War I and American Art

The Art Newspaper: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Honors Veterans

The New Criterion Highlights World War I and American Art

Newsworks: John Singer Sargent Painting on the Horrors of War Coming to Philly

Philadelphia Inquirer: Epic, ‘Harrowing’ Painting of War Travels to PAFA for Exhibit

Broad Street Review: PAFA’s World War I and American Art: How over there looked over here

Beyond PAFA

After the PAFA (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) presentation, World War I and American Art will travel to additional venues:

New-York Historical Society
May 26 – September 3, 2017

Frist Center for the Visual Arts
October 6, 2017 – January 21, 2018

For more on PAFA’s exhibitions on tour, click here.

Catalog: WORLD WAR I AND AMERICAN ART  (Now available for order)

For more information please visit the following link:

https://www.pafa.org/exhibitions/world-war-i-and-american-art

The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was more than 38 million: there were over 17 million deaths and 20 million wounded, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history. The total number of deaths includes about 11 million military personnel and about 7 million civilians.

For more information please visit the following link:

World War I casualties – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties

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