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Or ILLINOIS .xARY AT URBANA-CHAMPALGM -v^-*- Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://www.archive.org/details/greattraditionsiOOuniv 38 GREAT TRADITIONS IN PAINTING FROM MIDWESTERN COLLECTIONS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA SAINT SEBASTIAN Hendrick Terbrugghen Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College GREAT TRADITIONS IN PAINTING FROM MIDWESTERN COLLECTIONS October 23 through November 27, 1955 West Gallery of the Architecture Building University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio The Art Institute of Chicago The Cincinnati Art Museum The Cleveland Museum of Art Des Moines Art Center The John Herron Art Institute. Indianapolis Joslyn Art Museum. Omaha The University of Kansas Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri The Toledo Museum of Art COMMITTEE FOR EXHIBITIONS Jack Baker, Glen Bradshaw, Nicholas Britsky, Charles Harris, Elmer Love, Edwin C. Rae, John Replinger, Louise Woodroofe, Jack Wood, C. V. Donovan, Chairman FOREWORD The present exhibition makes no pretentions to completeness in cov- ering the art of any period or place, or in exploiting the total artistic resources of this part of the country. Its purpose may seem modest and even casual : we simply wanted to look at some pictures which are not the products of our own times. But this purpose is of deep importance to all those who look to works of art as profoundly revealing sources of knowledge and insight. Whether the spectator is himself involved in tech- nical problems of artistic expression, or simply a student of the endless variety and complexity of man and his works, these paintings provide a series of illuminations which have the possibility of leading to that much desired goal : the kind of an understanding of the past which may lead to a new understanding of the present and of ourselves. Here is a group of painted panels and canvasses which cover a period of nearly four hundred years — the middle of the fifteenth century to the first quarter of the nineteenth. How much they can tell us of the thoughts and feelings, not only of the artists who painted them, but of the life which sustained those artists, of the beliefs which directed them, of the people they were painted for! The traditions which these works embody reach, in some cases, far into the past (as with the French and Sienese devotional paintings), while in other cases they suggest develop- ments which nourished much later generations (as in the portraits by Hals and Goya). Even a small collection like this can suggest many fruitful lines of thought: can we define what is specifically Italian, French, Flemish, English, Spanish, or Dutch about works which were produced over a considerable period in one place, or can we determine why the work of almost exact contemporaries (Holbein School, Clouet, Bronzino) differs in certain essential respects? Each work is a focal point around which converges a broadening complex of ideas and intuitions, as our own sensitivity and knowledge expand. The exhibition was formed by bringing together some of the pre- nineteenth century paintings from our own Trees Collection (which we see all too seldom here due to lack of permanent exhibition space), with a somewhat larger group of pictures which have been most generously lent to us, with that fine spirit of cooperation which is in the best tradi- tion of institutions of learning, from a number of neighboring museums. We are particularly glad to include the splendid Hals portrait. This is the most recent addition to the Trees Collection, presented to the Uni- versity of Illinois by Mr. and Mrs. Merle J. Trees in .1953, and now seen in Urbana for the first time. Allen S. Weller Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts PAINTINGS 1. Balthasar van der Ast FRUIT AND FLOWERS The Toledo Museum of Art Dutch 22" x 351/2' (c. 1590-1665; 2. Giuseppe Bazzani DEATH OF SAPPHIRA Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College Italian 36Vi" x 55 ] /i ;c. 1690-1769) 3. Nicasius Bernaerts ANIMALS BY WATERFALL Des Moines Art Center Flemish (1620-1678; 40" x 34" 4. Angelo Bronzino Italian PORTRAIT OF COSIMO DE' MEDICI 41" x 30%' The Toledo Museum of Art 1503-1572' 5. Chinese, Ming Period PORTRAIT OF A PHILOSOPHER Des Moines Art Center 14" x 11' (1368-1644) 6. Pieter Claesz STILL LIFE WITH OYSTERS The Toledo Museum of Art Dutch 14"x20 1 / 8 " (c. 1595-1661 PORTRAIT OF COSIMO DE" MEDICI The Toledo Museum of Art Angelo Bronzino 7. Francois Clouet PORTRAIT OF MADAME DE PIENNES Trees Collection French 14"x9%" (c. 1500-1572; John Singleton Copley PORTRAIT OF SQUIRE HYDE, OF HYDE Trees Collection American 29" x 24" (1738-1815) 9. Charles Joseph Flipart YOUNG WOMAN WITH HUNTER The Art Institute of Chicago French 34 1 , 27%' (1721-1797; 10. French, late 15th Century MARY AT PRAYER Trees Collection 15%" x 9%' 11. Thomas Gainsborough English THE FALLEN TREE 40" x 36" The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 1727-1788' 12. Jan Gossaert (Mabuse) THIERRY DE LIGNE Trees Collection Flemish 15" x 11'//' c. 1478-1533) 13. Francisco Goya BOY WITH A LINNET The Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish 47" x 33' 1746-1828) 14. School of El Greco ST. FRANCIS IN ECSTASY Des Moines Art Center Spanish 40" x 27 3 / 4 " 1541-1614) 15. Frans Hals PORTRAIT OF CORNELIS GULDEWAGEN Trees Collection Dutch 15 3 /4"x 12' 1580-1666) 16. Jean Jacques Hauer LAFAYETTE AND MADAME ROLAND University of Michigan French 36 3 /4" x 29%" (1751-1829) 17. Holbein School, c. 1530 English LADY ANNA CHAMBERLAIN 13" x 9W Trees Collection 18. Pieter de Hooch INTERIOR Trees Collection Dutch 14ft" x 14%g" 1629-1683) THE FALLEN TREE Thomas Gainsborough The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 19. Nicolas Lancret THE SWING Cincinnati Art Museum French 38" x 49'/ 2 " 1690-1745) 20. Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) PORTRAIT OF MARCO FOSCARI DA VENEZIA Trees Collection Italian 22'/2"x 19%" 1498-1555) 21. Jean Marc Nattier MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE LAMBESC Joslyn Art Museum French 32 1 /2" x 25%' 1685-1766 22. Neroccio di Bartolommeo Landi MADONNA AND CHILD Trees Collection Italian 201/2" X 14 3 /4' 1447-1500) 23. Joachim Patinir THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS The Toledo Museum of Art Flemish 12'/2"x 17' c. 1480-1524) 24. Francesco Pesellino DAVID MARCHING BEFORE THE ARK William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art Italian 22" x 243 (1422-1457; 25. Rembrandt van Rijn PORTRAIT OF AMSTERDAM BURGHER Trees Collection Dutch 27" x 22' (1606-1669) 26. Joshua Reynolds PORTRAIT OF JOSEPH BARETTI John Herron Art Institute English 30V4" x 24%" 1723-1792) 27. George Romney THE DUCHESS OF GORDON AND HER SON Trees Collection English 24" x \m" 1734-1802: 28. Petrus Paulus Rubens ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art Flemish 20" x 15' 1577-1640) 29. Jacob van Ruisdael WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH WATER Trees Collection Dutch 19 1 /2"x22 1 /2" 1628-1682) 30. Sienese, late 15th century MADONNA AND CHILD Allen S. Weller. Urbana 19%" x 13%' PORTRAIT OF CORNELIS GULDEWAGEN Trees Collection Frans Hals 31. Francesco Solimena EROTIMUS HEALS GEOFREY OF BOUILLON The University of Kansas Museum of Art Italian 40" x 28" (1657-1747; 32. Bernardo Strozzi HEAD The University of Kansas Museum of Art Italian 24" x 19' 1581-1644) 33. David Teniers THE ARTIST ON THE GROUNDS OF STEEN CASTLE Trees Collection Flemish 46'/ 8 " x 66 9 /ie" 1610-1690; 34. Hendrick Terbrugghen SAINT SEBASTIAN Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College Dutch 58%o" x 46%" (1588-1629; 35. Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) VENUS AND MARS WITH THE THREE GRACES The Art Institute of Chicago Italian 41'/4"x55 3 /4 / (1518-1594; MADAME DE PIENNES Trees Collection Francois Clouet