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Early Fall 1999 Exhibitions


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James McNeill Whistler
& the Etching Revival

Whistler's poetic etchings were on view along with works by his brother-in-law Seymour Haden; etchings by French artists including Charles Meryon, Jean-François Millet, and James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot; and prints by such American artists as Thomas Moran, his wife Mary Nimmo Moran, and Whistler's close friend, Joseph Pennell.

Haden: Sub Tegmine

Haden, Sub Tegmine.
Etching and drypoint, 1859

Tissot: Emigrants

Aaron Fox '00 and Katherine Sanderson '00 worked with Stephanie Wiles, then DAC Curator, to organize this exhibition as a project for ARHA 360, "Museum Studies: Nineteenth-Century American Painter-Etchers."

Weir: Haystacks

Tissot, Emigrant.
Etching and drypoint, 1880

Weir, The Haystacks.
Etching and drypoint

Tuesday 1 September - Sunday 17 October 1999

The exhibition's student curators gave an Art à la Mode talk on 15 September 1999.

An illustrated catalog is still available.
 

Rowing at Wesleyan

Rowers

Organized in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Head of the Connecticut Regatta, this exhibition of photographs, prints, and other materials from Wesleyan's University Archives celebrated the history of rowing and the sport of crew at Wesleyan from the 1850s to the present day.

Tuesday 1 September - Sunday 17 October 1999

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