Art exhibits slated for Zimmerli Museum, Alexander Library
Archived article from Oct 21, 2002
Ben Shahn exhibit at Zimmerli Ben Shahn, one of America's greatest graphic artists, is well known for the social realist art he produced between the two world wars. But in the 1940s, Shahn began to develop an introspective style concentrating on spiritual redemption through art. Shahn's odyssey culminated in one of his most important graphic works, "The Rilke Portfolio: For the Sake of a Single Verse."
An exhibit of the 24 lithographs and letterpresses that make up the work is on display at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum through Dec. 31. For the 1968 project, Shahn revisited Rainer Maria Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet," in which Rilke advises his correspondent that poetry can arise only out of the depth of lived experience.
The museum's hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, noon–5 p.m. Admission is free for Rutgers students, faculty and staff with ID. For more information, call ext. 2-7237 or visit www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu .
American art at Alexander Library A collection of American art from the first half of the 20th century will be on exhibit at the Alexander Library in New Brunswick through Dec. 24. The Martin and Harriet Diamond Collection of American Art features original works of art, monographs on artists, notable exhibition catalogues and rare periodicals, as well as photographs and personal correspondence. The collection was acquired in 1998 by the Rutgers University Librar-ies, the art history department and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.
According to Matthew Baigell, retired professor of art history, the collection "is uniquely rich in materials on early 20th-century painters, on the Social Realist movement of the 1930s and on the abstract art movement of the interwar period." The exhibition can be viewed in the Special Collections and University Archives Gallery on the lower level, and in Gallery '50 on the first floor of Alexander Library. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., and Saturday, 1–5 p.m.
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