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Seeing silence : the paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck / Dita Amory ; with contributions by Patricia G. Berman, Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff, Zoe de Bretagne, Silvia A. Centeno, Charlotte Hale, Max Hollein, and Elizabeth Peyton
Fine Arts Library - New Book Display ND955.F53 S352 2025
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schjerfbeck, Helene, 1862-1946--Exhibitions.
- Schjerfbeck, Helene.
- Painting, Finnish--19th century--20th century.
- Painting, Finnish.
- Figurative painting--19th century--20th century.
- Figurative painting.
- Portrait painting--19th century--20th century.
- Portrait painting.
- Women painters--Finland--19th century--20th century.
- Women painters.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 187 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven ; London : distributed by Yale University Press
- Other Title:
- Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Beloved in Nordic countries for her highly original style, Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Overcoming immense personal struggles and working in a remote location for decades, she produced a powerful body of work through sheer force of will. This exhibition affirms her rightful place in the story of modern art. Following Schjerfbeck's journey from art school in Paris to her final days in Sweden, the exhibition illustrates her shift from traditional and realistic subjects to a simplified, spare style. In the early 1900s, using her mother and neighbors as models, she painted abstractly, paring down her subjects in form and color and developing a bold, new language. Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck is the first exhibition to showcase the work of the artist in a major United States museum. Featuring nearly 60 works--including generous loans from the Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum, other Finnish museums, and private collections in Finland and Sweden--Seeing Silence illuminates Schjerfbeck as a valuable voice of modernism." -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website
- "'Who was Oskar Stoessel?' a Supreme Court justice asked the author, Bryan A. Garner, as they stood in front of one of the remarkable portraits bearing Stoessel's signature. That question started a search in which Garner first discovered the notable fact that in the 1940s Stoessel had etched portraits for the entire U.S. Supreme Court. This account has been gleaned, over many years of research, from library archives of the eminent people whose portraits Stoessel etched; from contemporaneous newspapers; from museum archives in Europe and America; from small stashes of Oskar's work in European and American art galleries; from official government documents; and from the files of Oskar's only known living relative. Stoessel's story, as it emerges from these disparate sources, becomes a magnificent biography"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Director's foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Lenders to the exhibition
- Contributors
- Preface / Dita Amory
- "All I desire to do is paint" / Patricia G. Berman
- In and out of register / Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff
- "A harsh painting with a strong expression" / Charlotte Hale and Silvia A. Centeno
- Schjerfbeck and portraiture : a conversation / Elizabeth Peyton and Max Hollein
- Map
- Chronology / Zoe de Bretagne
- Plates
- Notes
- Works in the exhibition
- Selected bibliography
- Index
- Photography credits
- Notes:
- "This catalogue is published in conjunction with Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from December 5, 2025, through April 5, 2026."--Colophon
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-183) and index
- ISBN:
- 9781588398079
- 1588398072
- OCLC:
- 1547760096
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000325843
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