Traveling exhibitions

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

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

		Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester VA
		Pictured, left to right: Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris co-curator and Curator of Modern Art at the University of Virginia Art Museum Matthew Affron, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Curator Naomi Knappenberger, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Director Alex Nyerges, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Executive Director Jennifer Esler, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Chief Conservator and Deputy Director for Collections Management Stephen Bonadies.

Current venue and events

Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
Winchester VA
August 15 - November 29, 2009

Sunday, August 30
2 pm

Lecture
Collecting the Modern: T. Catesby Jones and Art in France, 1924-1946
by Matthew Affron, co-curator

Saturday, September 19
9:30 am - noon

Workshop on reduction print
Picasso and the Fearless Print
from 9:30 a.m. to noon

This program is organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Paul Mellon Endowment. The workshop fee is $10 for MSV Members and $15 for all others. Registration by September 16 is required. To register, call 540-662-1473, ext. 209, or e-mail edassistant@ShenandoahMuseum.org.

Tuesdays, October 6, 13, and 20
3:30-6:30 pm

Start with Art: Youth Painting Series
Ages 8 to 15

The fee to participate in the entire series is $30 for MSV Members and $40 for all others. The fee for individual sessions is $15 for MSV Members and $20 for all others. Registration by September 30 is required. To register, call 540-662-1473, ext. 209, or e-mail edassistant@ShenandoahMuseum.org.

		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

Exhibition description

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.