Exhibitions, Spring 2009

Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris
The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Virginia Art Museum
January 30 - April 24

		Max Ernst, German, active in Germany, France, and the United States, 1891-1976 Escapee from Natural History (Paris: Aux Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1926) Collotype after frottage (pencil rubbing), 20 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, NC251 .E69 1926 Gift of T. Catesby Jones
		Pablo Picasso, Spanish, active in France, 1881-1973 The Frugal Repast, 1913 From the Saltimbanques Suite, published by Ambroise Vollard Etching, 26 x 19 15/16 in. Gift of T. Catesby Jones, 1975.43.85

Co-organized by the VMFA and the U.Va. Art Museum

T. Catesby Jones was a native of Petersburg, an alumnus of the University of Virginia School of Law, and a trustee of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. A maritime lawyer by profession, he established himself by the early 1930s in New York as a noteworthy collector of modern French art. Jones accumulated works, by such artists as Georges Braque, Jacques Lipchitz, André Masson, and Pablo Picasso, in depth and with an emphasis on paintings, drawings, prints, and artists' books. Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris is co-organized by the two Virginia institutions that received the bulk of his art collection as separate bequests in 1947. The exhibition is our first opportunity to present a comprehensive assessment of Jones's legacy as a collector. The fully illustrated catalogue presents essays by the co-curators and new research by University of Virginia graduate students.

The exhibition is curated by Matthew Affron, curator of modern art at the U.Va. Art Museum and associate professor in the McIntire Department of Art, and John B. Ravenal, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, assisted by Emily Smith, Curatorial Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art at VMFA. Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris will travel to the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester (August 15- November 29, 2009), the William King Art Center in Abingdon (December 11 2009-February 21, 2010), and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond (tentative dates: April - June 2010).

Sponsored at the University of Virginia by the U.Va. Art Museum Volunteer Board, Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, Arts Enhancement Fund, the Lindner Center for Art History in the McIntire Department of Art, and Arts$. Presented at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and on tour with generous support from the Fabergé Ball Endowment and Altria Group, Inc.

Final Friday Reception
January 30, 5:30-7:30 pm
In the Museum

Members' Preview

By invitation only
Thursday, February 5, 6-7:30 pm
In the Museum

Lecture
The Parisian Art Market and the Collector, 1900-1945
by Malcolm Gee, Professor of Art History, Northumbria University, UK

Thursday, February 12, 6 pm
Campbell Hall 160

Gallery Talk
T. Catesby Jones: An Art Lover's Book Collection
by Matthew Affron

Wednesday, February 18, 12-1 pm
Harrison Institute, University of Virginia Library
Byrd/Morris Seminar Rooms & Lower Galleries

Lunchtime Talk
by Matthew Affron

Tuesday, March 10, 12 pm
In the Museum

Lecture
Dangerous Beauty: The Reinvention of Classicism Between the Two World Wars
by Kenneth E. Silver, Professor of Art History, New York University

Tuesday, March 17, 6 pm
Campbell Hall 160

Final Friday Reception
March 27, 5:30-7:30 pm
In the Museum

Lunchtime Talk
by Emily Smith, Curatorial Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art, VMFA

Tuesday, April 14, 12 pm
In the Museum