| NOW TRAVELING to these venues:
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
March 10–
July 16, 2006
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
New York, New York
September 13– December 9, 2006
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
February 17– May 20, 2007
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Introduction
In “Moving Pictures,” paintings are placed alongside
early films to show how artists and
audiences of that period grappled with the new visual technology.
The moving pictures on view are
drawn primarily from the Edison, Lumière, and American Mutoscope
and Biograph companies while the paintings are by such artists
as Thomas Eakins, George Luks, John Sloan, and George Bellows.
This important exhibition, which includes over 150 paintings, posters,
and photographs and 50 films, follows the 1880 experiments of Eadward
Muybridge and other motion photographers through the development
of moving picture technology in the 1890s and the wave of creativity
the new medium generated among American artists. The exhibition
catalogue, with an accompanying interactive DVD of the paintings
and films, features essays by prominent scholars from the fields
of art history, film studies, and American studies. Organized by
Nancy Mowll Mathews, Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator. Funded in part by The Henry Luce Foundation, the Eugénie Prendergast Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Williams College Center for Technology in the Arts and Humanities (CTAH), H.H. Powers Fund, and the Orrin Simons Fund.
An Interview with Curator Nancy Mowll Mathews
WCMA: How long have you been researching the project ?
NM: I started this project about ten years ago. These kinds of
things take a long time.
WCMA: What
makes this exhibition so special or different from other exhibitions
you’ve
curated in the past?
NM: The biggest difference from my past research and exhibitions
is working with film, which is an entirely new medium for me. I
had to learn not only a whole new history of visual culture at
the turn of the century but a new vocabulary and a new set of issues
in exhibiting this medium in a gallery.
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Curator Biography
Nancy Mowll Mathews is the Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator
of 19th and 20th Century Art at the Williams College Museum of Art.
She directs the Prendergast Archive and Study Center at WCMA, conducting
ongoing research and organizing exhibitions and publications on the
Prendergasts and their era (1850-1950). She is the co-author of two
catalogues raisonnés: Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints (1989)
and Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue
Raisonné (1990) and is currently president of the Catalogue
Raisonné Scholars Association.
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