The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College presents its largest display ever of the museum’s holdings of British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian and Spanish art from the Renaissance to the early Twentieth Century.
Until March 8, the second-floor galleries of the museum are featuring more than 120 works of European art, including paintings by Perugino, Claude, De Heem, Van Loo, Batoni and Picasso; sculptures dating from the Renaissance to the early Twentieth Century; and prints by Dürer, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Goya, Archapiho, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec.
It is part of an ongoing series focusing on the museum’s permanent collection, following last year’s celebration “American Art at Dartmouth.”
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog, available through the museum shop. European Art at Dartmouth is the second in a series of catalogs from the Hood that will highlight different areas of the museum’s collections, following the publication in 2007 of American Art at Dartmouth . Future volumes will feature Modern and contemporary art and Native American art.
The study of European art has long been an integral component of the curriculum at Dartmouth College. The collection aimed at supporting this mission grew gradually throughout the Nineteenth Century, but the introduction of art history courses in 1905 led to a significant expansion of the college’s holdings.
A dramatic increase in financial and material donations occurred after the 1985 opening of the Hood Museum of Art, which now houses several thousand European objects dating from the Renaissance to the early Twentieth Century.
The Hood Museum is on Dartmouth College campus at Wheelock Street. For information, 603-646-2808 or www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu .
