Selected Past Traveling Exhibitions
Since 1995, International Arts & Artists (IA&A) has traveled more than 60 exhibitions that have been shown in some 400 locations. The following list represents only a few examples of past traveling exhibitions from IA&A. A complete list will be forthcoming so please check back here for more details. IA&A can develop similar exhibitions on request. Please feel free to contact our staff with any questions.
Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures
Debuting in 1987 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this exceptional exhibition with more than 70 works from the Helga series included finished paintings in tempera and dry brush as well as drawings and works in watercolor.
Exhibition venues: University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA / Canton Museum of Art, OH / Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
This International Arts & Artists’ exhibition toured from 2001-2003.
Andrew Wyeth, Easter Sunday (detail),© Pacific Sun Trading Company, LLC. Image courtesy of Frank E. Fowler.
Kara Walker at the 25th Saõ Paulo Bienal, 2002
IA&A was selected to present Kara Walker at the Bienal and received grants from the Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions (a public-private partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts); the Pew Charitable Trust; the Rockefeller Foundation and the U.S. Department of State. The centerpiece of Walker’s installation was a cyclorama, 85 feet in circumference, built on-site and filled with near-life-size, cut-paper silhouettes.
Exhibition venue: 25th Saõ Paulo Bienal, Brazil
Kara Walker, Cut, 1998. Courtesy of Brent Sikkema, NYC
Victorian Visions: Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours from the National Museums & Galleries of Wales
Victorian Visions included 64 works reflecting the wide range of pre-Raphaelite styles found in the collections of the National Museums & Galleries of Wales. Among the artists included are Sir Edward Poynter, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
Exhibition venues: The Frick Art Museum and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA / The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN / Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN / The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY / Columbia Museum of Art, SC
William Henry Hunt, Fruit Piece, c. 1855
Paris Moderne: Art Deco Works from the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Paris Moderne represents the first time a significant collection of art deco objects from the MAMVP toured the United States. Included in the exhibition were enormous gold-lacquered panels made by Jean Dunand for the ocean liner Normandie, loaned by the museum for the first time. This exhibition of 83 works—including more than 40 paintings and works on paper, 30 pieces of furniture, 10 sculptures, and other decorative arts—celebrates the rich decorative style of Parisian interiors of the 1920s and ‘30s. Accompanying the furnishings were paintings by major artists including Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, André Derain, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso.
Exhibition venues: Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS / Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Maurice Champion, Meuble d’appui a deux portes (Armoire with two doors), 1937
Crafting Utopia: The Art of Shaker Women
The Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has the largest and most representative collection of Shaker artifacts available to the public at an original site. This exhibition featured 115 beautifully crafted objects, including unique woodenware and household objects, costumes, textiles, and furnishings. Crafting Utopia focused on the role of women in the Shaker community and their importance in the development of Shaker crafts.
Exhibition venues: Davenport Museum of Art, IA / Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA / Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL / Newcomb Gallery of Art, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA / Fullerton Museum Center, CA / Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY /Naples Museum of Art, FL
Courtesy of Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA