WELCOME 2024!
We hope your year is off to a great start! The Addison is in the midst of preparing for a new exhibition season: Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context will close in just a few weeks, and two new shows, Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955 and Laying the Foundation: Exploring the Nucleus of the Addison’s Collection, will open on February 10. Read on to find out more about these thought-provoking exhibitions and accompanying programs!
The Addison is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm, free and open to the public.
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LAST CHANCE—CLOSING FEBRUARY 11!
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Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context demonstrates how recently acquired works complement the museum’s extant holdings and help us to see the collection in novel ways, drawing out new narratives, juxtapositions, and conversations across time and media.
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Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents photographs that Robert Frank and Todd Webb created separately for their 1955 Guggenheim Fellowships. Though the men had no knowledge of each other at the time, their strikingly similar images revealed popular cultural trends and shared ideologies that challenged the purity of the “American Roadtrip.”
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Laying the Foundation: Exploring the Nucleus of the Addison’s Collection is a presentation of the eclectic mix of works that comprise the Addison’s founding collection, established "to permanently enrich the lives of Phillips Academy students," which reflects not just the best of what was available on the market at the time but also the specific tastes and predilections of those who contributed to its creation.
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A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 is the first major survey of Southern photography in 25 years. Organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, this exhibition examines the complicated history of the South and reveals the region’s critical impact on the evolution of the medium, posing timely questions about American identity, culture, and character.
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Finding American Form: 20th-Century Selections from the Permanent Collection explores the range of styles that characterized 20th-century American art. Artists mined the space between representation and abstraction, whether drawing upon the influence of European modern art, finding inspiration from stylized sculptures and masks of West Africa, or taking cues from urban environments and the natural world.
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| FRIENDS OF THE ADDISON EVENT:
Preview Reception and Talk with Betsy Evans Hunt
Friday, February 9, 4:00–6:00 pm
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Before the exhibition opens to the public, Friends of the Addison are invited for a tour of Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955 with Betsy Evans Hunt (PA 1974), Executive Director of the Todd Webb Archive. A reception will follow. Space is limited and participants must be current members of Friends of the Addison to attend. For reservations, to join Friends of the Addison, or to renew a membership, please contact Anna Gesing at 978.749.4023 or agesing@andover.edu.
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VIRTUAL GALLERY TALK WITH THE EXHIBITION CURATOR:
Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955
Tuesday, February 27, 2:00 pm
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Join Lisa Volpe, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for a discussion of the photographic projects that Frank and Webb created during travels through the United States in 1955.This free program is organized with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library; registration is required.
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WINTER OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, March 9, 4:00–6:00 pm
Join us in celebrating the new exhibitions. Enjoy great company, refreshments, and the best of American art! Free and open to the public.
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GALLERY TOUR WITH THE EXHIBITION CURATORS:
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845
Sunday, March 10, 2:00 pm
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Join Gregory Harris, Keough Family Curator of Photography from the High Museum, Atlanta, and Sarah Kennel, Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, for a tour and discussion of the exhibition. The event is free, but space is limited.
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VIDEO: Wanderer and its Legacy: A Conversation with Margie Scoby
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Learn about the real-life history behind Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA’s Wanderer, a model ship that both memorializes the nineteenth-century pleasure yacht turned slave ship and interrogates the relationship between the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, and power.
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Addison curators Gordon Wilkins and Rachel Vogel are joined by Margie Scoby, a genealogist, historian, and founder and curator of Finding Our Roots African American Museum in Houma, Louisiana, who discusses the history of this illegal slave ship and her research tracing the stories of those ancestors who survived the transatlantic crossing of the Wanderer, including her own. (Recorded on January 4, 2024).
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Images:
Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context, installation views, photos by Julia Featheringill; Todd Webb, Clifton Ray Durham, Shawneetown, IL, 1955, printed 2023, inkjet print, courtesy of Todd Webb Archive. © Todd Webb Archive; Robert Frank, New York City, c. 1947–51, gelatin silver print, courtesy of the June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation. © The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation; Winslow Homer, The West Wind, 1891, oil on canvas, 30 x 44 inches, gift of anonymous donor, 1928.24; Sally Mann, Deep South, Untitled (Scarred Tree), 1999, gelatin silver print, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from Jane and Clay Jackson, 2019.221. © Sally Mann; Georgia O'Keeffe, Wave, Night, 1928, oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches, purchased as the gift of Charles L. Stillman (PA 1922), 1947.33; Robert Frank, Rodeo, New York City, 1955–56, gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Jerry E. and Nanette Finger. © The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation; Todd Webb, Cowboy, Lexington, NE, 1956, printed 2023, inkjet print, courtesy of Todd Webb Archive. © Todd Webb Archive; Todd Webb, Between Lovelock and Fernley, NV, 1956, printed 2023, inkjet print, courtesy of Todd Webb Archive. © Todd Webb Archive; Robert Frank, U.S. 285, New Mexico, 1955, gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Jerry E. and Nannette Finger. © The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation; Edward Hopper, Manhattan Bridge Loop, 1928, oil on canvas, 35 x 60 inches, gift of Stephen C. Clark, Esq., 1932.17; RaMell Ross, iHome, 2013, pigmented inkjet print, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from the Marilyn and Donald Keough Family Foundation, 2022.159. © RaMell Ross.
Exhibition and program credits:
Generous support for Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context has been provided by the Elizabeth and Anthony Enders Exhibitions Fund and the Mollie Bennett Lupe and Garland M. Lasater Exhibition Fund.
Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955 is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Todd Webb Archive, Portland, Maine. The Addison’s presentation is generously supported by the Mollie Bennett Lupe and Garland M. Lasater Exhibition Fund.
Generous support for Laying the Foundation: Exploring the Nucleus of the Addison’s Collection has been provided by the Bernard and Louise Palitz Exhibitions Fund and the John-Esther Art Fund.
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Generous support for the Addison’s presentation of the exhibition has been provided by the Francesca S. Woodman Exhibitions Fund.
Finding American Form: 20th-Century Selections from the Permanent Collection is generously supported by the Sidney R. Knafel Fund.
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