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In accordance with the wish expressed in George Davison's legacy that the collection be made widely accessible, the Davison Art Center lends objects for exhibitions at selected museums in the U.S. and abroad. Two examples are described below.
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James A.M. Whistler, Study in Lemon and Turquoise: The Japanese Dress, ca. 1888-90; pencil, black chalk, and pastel (photo: Phil)
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Lent for the 1995 exhibition James McNeill Whistler, a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
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Charles Sheeler, MacDougal Alley, 1924; oil on canvas (photo: Phil)
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This painting, the DAC's most-travelled work, has been lent for the following exhibitions:
- Der küle Blick -- Realismus der 20er Jahre (The Cool Gaze) at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung (Munich, Germany), 2001
- Views of the City: 1910s-1940s at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe, New Mexico), 2000-2001
- City of Ambition: Artists and New York 1900-1960 at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), 1996
- American Vanguards
at the Nassau County Museum of Art (New York), 1996
- Precisionism in America 1915-1941: Reordering Reality at the Montclair Art Museum (New Jersey), the Norton Gallery and School of Art (Florida), the Columbus Museum of Art (Ohio), and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (Nebraska), 1994-1995
- Within Bohemia's Borders: Greenwich Village, 1830-1930, at the Museum of the City of New York, 1990-1991
- Visions of Tomorrow: New York and American Industrialization in the 1920s-1930s, organized by the Mainichi Newspapers (Tokyo) and the International Sculpture Center (Washington, D.C.), and toured to the Isetan Museum of Art (Tokyo), Daimaru Museum of Art (Osaka), Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Fukuoka), and Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Utsunomiya), 1988
- Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (California), traveling to the Saint Louis Art Museum (Missouri), the Baltimore Museum of Art (Maryland), the Des Moines Art Center (Iowa), and the Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio), 1982-1983
- America: Traum und Depression, 1920/40 at the Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (Berlin), 1980
- Neue Schlichkeit und Realismus, at the Museum des 20.Jahrhunderts (Vienna), 1977
- Pioneers of American Abstraction, at the Andrew Crispo Gallery (New York), 1973
- New York, N.Y., at ACA Galleries (New York), 1971
- The American Scene: The 20th Century, Part II, at the Indiana University Art Museum, 1970
- Roots of Abstract Art in America 1910-1930, at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.), 1965-1966
- And earlier exhibitions at the Gallery of Modern Art (New York), Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), the State University of Iowa, the Museum of Art, Science, & Industry (Bridgeport, Connecticut), and the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (Utica, New York)
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