Exhibitions

Spring 2019

Rockwell Kent, Clover Fields, oil on canvas, 1939-40. Gift of Mrs. Robert A. Arms in memory of Robert A. Arms (Class of 1927).

Fleeting Nature: Selections from the Collection

This exhibition explores how and why artists have turned to the genre of landscape through the ages. On view through July 14, 2019.

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Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Hôtel de l'Étoile: Grand Hotel Fontaine), 1953–1955. Mixed media. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; Gift of the C and B Foundation.

Constructing Collage

This exhibition presents some of the ways in which artists have employed collage throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. On view through January 5, 2020.

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Wassily Kandinsky, Capricious Forms, July 1937. Oil on canvas, 35 x 45 ¾ inches (88.9 x 116.3 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection (45.977). © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein

A groundbreaking exhibit that explores how modern art was influenced by advances in science, from Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to newly powerful microscopic and telescopic lenses. OPENING MARCH 28.

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Amherst Center for Russian Culture Art Gallery

Russian center Art Gallery

Open Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.

Located in Webster Hall on the campus of Amherst College, the Amherst Center for Russian Culture Art Gallery displays artworks, books and archival materials from the Thomas P. Whitney ’37 collection of Russian art.

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