Amalie Rothschild

Baltimore

Amalie Rothschild was an American artist who lived and worked within the art community of Baltimore, Maryland. An accomplished painter and sculptor, she was also an art teacher, philanthropist, patron, and cultural advocate. Over the course of a long career, she made oil and acrylic paintings as well as drawings, watercolors, and other paper works. She also sculpted using found objects, Plexiglas, metals, and particleboard. Originally working in a realist style, she became well known for geometric abstractions based on figurative subjects. In 1993 a critic described this approach as "[walking] a tightrope between the abstract and the representational with a suggestion of three-dimensional depth." Rothschild was by choice a regional artist. Although she occasionally exhibited elsewhere, she did not actively promote her career outside a mid-Atlantic region centered on Baltimore. Thus, in 1997 a critic wrote, "Amalie Rothschild is a fixture and ornament of the Baltimore art world." At the time of her death a critic gave this career summary: "She was one of the leading artists of her time in this area. Her work is thoroughly modern and related to geometric abstraction, but without losing the figure. It has emotional reserve, often contains a hint of humor and at times recalls the childlike sagacity of the great Paul Klee."

Zenobia Camprubí

Comerío

Zenobia Camprubí Aymar, née à Malgrat De Mar en 1887 et morte à San Juan en 1956, est une écrivaine et linguiste espagnole. Elle est la première traductrice hispanique de Rabindranath Tagore et a développé des activités culturelles considérables. Pendant l'exil républicain, elle enseigne à l'Université du Maryland. Elle était amie avec Federico García Lorca et l'épouse de Juan Ramón Jiménez.

Salvador Dali Museum

St. Petersburg

Salvador Dalí i Domènech, premier marquis de Dalí de Púbol, né à Figueras le 11 mai 1904, et mort dans la même ville, le 23 janvier 1989, est un peintre, sculpteur, graveur, scénariste et écrivain catalan de nationalité espagnole. Il est considéré comme l'un des principaux représentants du surréalisme, et comme l'un des plus célèbres peintres du XXe siècle. Influencé très jeune par l'impressionnisme, il quitta Figueras pour recevoir une éducation artistique académique à Madrid où il se lia d'amitié avec Federico García Lorca et Luis Buñuel et chercha son style entre différents mouvements artistiques. Sur les conseils de Joan Miró, il rejoignit Paris à l'issue de ses études et intégra le groupe des surréalistes, où il rencontra sa femme Gala. Il trouva son propre style à partir de 1929, année où il devint surréaliste à part entière et inventa la méthode paranoïaque-critique. Exclu de ce groupe quelques années après, il vécut la guerre d'Espagne en exil en Europe, avant de quitter la France en guerre pour New York, où il résida huit ans et où il fit fortune. À son retour en Catalogne, en 1949, il opéra un virage vers le catholicisme, se rapprocha de la peinture de la Renaissance et s’inspira des évolutions scientifiques de son temps pour faire évoluer son style vers ce qu'il nomma « mysticisme corpusculaire ». Les thèmes qu'il aborda le plus fréquemment furent le rêve, la sexualité, le comestible, sa femme Gala et la religion. La Persistance de la mémoire est l'une de ses toiles surréalistes les plus célèbres, le Christ de saint Jean de la Croix est l'une de ses principales toiles à motif religieux. Artiste très imaginatif, il manifestait une tendance notable au narcissisme et à la mégalomanie qui lui permettaient de retenir l'attention publique, mais irritaient une partie du monde de l'art, qui voyait dans ce comportement une forme de publicité qui dépassait parfois son œuvre. Deux musées lui furent dédiés de son vivant, le Salvador Dali Museum et le théâtre-musée Dalí. Dalí créa lui-même le second, comme une œuvre surréaliste à part entière. La sympathie de Dalí pour Francisco Franco, son excentricité et ses œuvres tardives font de l'analyse de son œuvre comme de sa personne des thèmes difficiles et sujets à controverses.

Sarah Campbell Blaffer

Houston

Sarah Campbell Blaffer was an American philanthropist and contributor to the art collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She inherited two fortunes based on oil money, one from her father's investments in Texaco, and the other from her husband's investments in Humble Oil.

Scripps College

Claremont (Californie)

Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California. Founded in 1926, it had an enrollment of 1,109 students as of 2019. It is a member of the Claremont Colleges and is known for its extensive interdisciplinary core curriculum and historic campus. Scripps is an undergraduate institution with an emphasis in the humanities and in interdisciplinary education. It is widely regarded as the most prestigious women's college in the Western United States, and is consistently ranked the top such college by U.S. News and the other major rankings. The college is a top producer of Fulbright students.

Sioux City Art Center

Sioux City

The Sioux City Art Center began as a Works Progress Administration project in 1937 when the Art Center Association of Sioux City, the Sioux City Junior League, as well as other community supporters, received a grant of $3,000 to create the first art center. After the Federal Assistance Program ended in 1940, the Sioux City City Council voted to fund the Art Center and established the Board of Trustees, the City's fiscal governing board for the Art Center in 1941. It is located in Sioux City, Iowa.

Smart Museum of Art

Chicago

Le David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art est un musée d'art situé sur le campus de l'Université de Chicago. La collection permanente de plus de 10 000 objets d'art comprend des œuvres de Francisco de Goya, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Ansel Adams, et Mark Rothko. L'entrée du musée est gratuite.

South Bend Museum of Art

South Bend (Indiana)

The South Bend Museum of Art is located in South Bend, Indiana. Founded in 1947, the museum features historical and contemporary art in five galleries, and offers instruction in its studios. Since 1987, the museum has been accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the highest level of professional standards. Located inside Century Center in downtown South Bend, the museum occupies three levels in the northern wing of the building, designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee. The museum's permanent collection is exhibited in the Carmichael Gallery and includes a mix of styles and imagery by American artists from the 19th Century to present day: historical paintings by the Hoosier Group of Impressionists as well as works by living Midwestern artists. The museum galleries are infused with new work regularly. National traveling shows and thematic exhibitions fill the Warner Gallery; the Art League Gallery displays solo and group exhibitions by professional artists living and working in the Midwest; the Jerome J. Crowley Community Gallery exhibits local artist groups or student and faculty work.

Southwest Museum of the American Indian

Los Angeles

The Southwest Museum of the American Indian is a museum, library, and archive located in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The museum is owned by the Autry Museum of the American West. Its collections deal mainly with Native Americans. It also has an extensive collection of pre-Hispanic, Spanish colonial, Latino, and Western American art and artifacts. Major collections had included American Indians of the Great Plains, American Indians of California, and American Indians of the Northwest Coast. Most of those materials were moved off-site, but the Southwest Museum has maintained an ongoing public exhibition on Pueblo pottery, open free of charge.The Metro L Line stops down the hill from the museum at the Southwest Museum station. About a block from the L Line stop is an entrance on Museum Drive that opens to a long tunnel formerly filled with dioramas, since removed by the Autry Museum and placed in storage. At the end of the tunnel is an elevator to the museum's lower lobby.