Out and About
The CRMA occassionally loans works from its permanent collection to other museums for special exhibtions. Check back often to see where some of our works are currently on view.
Grant Wood, Woman with Plants
Grant Wood’s seminal painting of his mother,
Woman with Plants, was requested by the Brooklyn Museum for inclusion in their major exhibition,
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties. While we rarely lend this important piece, the role it plays in the Brooklyn Museum’s show is critical. You may see
Woman with Plants in Brooklyn from October 28, 2011 to January 22, 2012, or at the two other venues to which the exhibition travels: Dallas Museum of Art from February 24 to May 27, 2012; and the Cleveland Museum of Art, from July 1 to September 16, 2012.
In exchange for our loan, the Brooklyn Museum generously lent a work of our choice. We selected Charles Willson Peale’s
George Washington, which is on view here from September 3 through December 31, 2011. Simultaneous to its display here, we organized the exhibition,
Seeing & Remembering: Portraits and Their Stories. These two exhibitions take a close look at the genre of portraiture, investigating the stories portraits tell about the sitter, the patron, the artist, and the times in which they lived.
Grant Wood,
Woman with Plants, 1929, oil on upsom board, 20 1/2 x 17 7/8 in., Museum purchase, 31.1.
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Return of the Holy Women
The Cedar Rapids Museum will be loaning Henry Ossawa Tanner's work
Return of the Holy Women to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for an exhibition titled "Henry O. Tanner: Modern Spirit."
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where Tanner studied from 1879 to 1885, is honored to organize the exhibition that will elevate his reputation by generating new scholarship and by bringing together more than 90 drawings, photographs, prints, paintings, and sculptures. In addition to celebrating Tanner's esteemed position in the American art canon as a pioneering African-American artist, this retrospective will establish him as one of the most significant American expatriate artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The presentation of CRMA's Tanner,
Return of the Holy Women will undoubtedly shape visitors' experiences of the exhibition and their understanding of Tanner's contributions to the history of art.
Did you know this work is actually double-sided?
Learn more and see images of the second side here!
See Tanner’s,
Return of the Holy Women on display at the following locations:
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: January 27 to April 15, 2012
Cincinnati Art Museum: May 26 to September 9, 2012
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: October 21, 2012 to January 13, 2013
Henry Ossawa Tanner,
Return of the Holy Women, 1904, oil on canvas, 46 1/2 x 35 in., Museum purchase, Club of Forty Fund, 28.1.a.