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Recent Acquisitions Releases Press Release Archive |
TMA's First Friday Art Tour to Focus on Whistler Paintings Tyler, TX—If you’ve been waiting for the “best time” to visit the current Tyler Museum of Art major exhibition, James McNeill Whistler: Selected Works from the Hunterian Art Gallery, this Friday may be your day. The exhibition’s first scheduled First Friday Art Tour, entitled “Whistler and His Paintings” is set for March 2 at 11 a.m. “Our First Friday Art Tours are designed to further the understanding and appreciation of art in an informal atmosphere,” said Ken Tomio, TMA curator, who will be leading this month’s tour. “It’s an excellent way to get more out of your Museum visit, and to learn interesting details about the artist and his work.” James McNeill Whistler was the incredibly talented American artist who took Europe by storm in the last half of the nineteenth century and helped forever change the way people look at art. Organized by International Arts & Artists of Washington, DC, this name-sake exhibition brings 129 pieces from the famed artist’s estate to the United States for the first time, including paintings, prints, watercolors, manuscripts and personal belongings such as silverware and porcelain. Most of the personal pieces were donated to the Hunterian Gallery in Scotland by Whistler’s sister-in-law in 1935, after the artist’s death in 1903. The TMA is the only Texas venue for this unique biographical exhibition, and when it closes April 29 the collection will return to its home gallery at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. World-renowned for his famous portrait of his mother, officially titled Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist’s Mother, c. 1871, which currently hangs in the Museé D’Orsay in Paris, Whistler was one of the earlier proponents of creating art for art’s sake, and not just to illustrate an event or to recreate identical images. Significant Whistler paintings including Nocturne, c. 1875–1877, Red and Black: The Fan, c. 1891–1894, Self-Portrait, c. 1896, and A Distant Dome, c. 1901 are included in the TMA exhibition. Museum visitors also may view a video on the life and works of Whistler and his contemporaries. Tickets for the “Whistler and His Paintings” First Friday Art Tour are $5 for Tyler Museum of Art members, and $10 for non-members. Reservations are required for both members and non-members, and may be made by calling 903-595-1001. The Museum Café is open weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the Museum Gift Shop is open during normal exhibition hours from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays. The Museum is open Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., but is closed Mondays. |