OPENING EVENTS THIS WEEKEND
The fall exhibitions are open and we are ready to celebrate! We hope you will join us this weekend for an opening reception on Saturday, 4:00–6:00 pm, and a conversation with artist Kay WalkingStick and curator Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto on Sunday, 1:00–2:15 pm. Read on for more information about these upcoming programs and more.
The Addison remains free and open to the public, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am–5:00 pm, and Sunday, 1:00–5:00 pm.
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FALL OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, September 21, 4:00–6:00 pm
Join us in celebrating the new exhibitions: enjoy great company, light refreshments, and the best of American art! Free and open to the public.
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Please note: Main Street from Central Street to Locke Street will be blocked and closed until 4:00 pm for Andover Day festivities. All side streets leading to and from Main Street will be also blocked and entry onto Main Street will be prohibited. Detours will be posted. If using a GPS, enter 3 Chapel Avenue, Andover, MA, as your destination.
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IN CONVERSATION: Kay WalkingStick and Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto
Sunday, September 22, 1:00–2:15 pm
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Artist Kay WalkingStick and exhibition curator Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, Vice President and Chief Curator of the New-York Historical Society, will engage in an informal conversation about the themes explored in Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School. This program is free, but space is limited and registration is required.
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GALLERY TOUR: Figure/Ground
Tuesday, October 15, 3:00 pm
Join Assistant Curator Rachel Vogel for a tour and discussion of the exhibition, which examines the interconnection between individuals and their environments. This free program has been organized with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library. Space is limited and registration is required.
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HANDS-ON FAMILY WORKSHOP: Look Again! Art That Changes
Saturday, October 19, 2:00–3:30 pm
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Join educator Angela Parker for an interactive tour and hands-on workshop based on the work of Ralph Coburn, featured in Americans in Paris. Coburn created artworks whose parts could be moved and rearranged into a new composition. Learn more about his process and try making your own changeable work of art.
Open to grades 3–6. Children must be accompanied by an adult caregiver.
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Comprising some 135 artworks by approximately 70 artists, including Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, Carmen Herrera, Joan Mitchell, and Mark Tobey, this exhibition delves into the various circles of American artists who made France their home during the post-World War II era, and investigates the academies where many studied, the spaces where their work was exhibited, their interactions with European artists, and the overarching issue of what it meant to be an American abroad.
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Organized by New-York Historical Society, this exhibition places landscape paintings by the renowned contemporary Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick in conversation with 19th-century Hudson River School paintings from the collection of the N-YHS with additional works from the Addison’s holdings. Celebrating a shared reverence for nature while engaging crucial questions about land dispossession and its reclamation by Indigenous peoples and nations, Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School explores the relationship between Indigenous art and American art history.
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Featuring works from the Addison’s collection, Figure/Ground explores the connection between individuals and their environments, illustrating how human experience is shaped by the spaces we inhabit. These varied scenes invite narrative and prompt reflection on the ways we relate to our own environments.
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Images:
Americans in Paris installation view, photo by Addison staff; Ed Clark, The City, 1952. Acrylic on canvas, 51 x 78 1/2 inches. Collection of Melanca Clark, Boston. Courtesy Hauser and Wirth © Estate of Ed Clark. Photo: Hollister and Young, Michigan Imaging; Kay WalkingStick, Wampanoag Coast, Variation II, 2018. Oil on panel in two parts. Collection of Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D., and Oscar Tang. © Kay WalkingStick; Martin Lewis, Rainy Day in Queens, 1931. Drypoint etching on wove paper, 10 1/2 x 11 13/16 inches. Bequest of Candace C. Stimson, 1944.59; Ralph Coburn, Aux Bermudes, 1951–52. Oil on six canvas panels, painted wood, 28 3/4 x 55 1/4 inches. Private collection, New York. Courtesy David Hall Gallery, LLC; Paul Jenkins, Uranus, 1956. Oil and chrysochrome on canvas, 28 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches. © Estate of Suzanne Jenkins / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2023; Kay WalkingStick, Farewell to the Smokies (Trail of Tears), 2007. Oil on wood panel. Denver Art Museum, William Sr. and Dorothy Harmsen Collection at the Denver Art Museum, by exchange, 2008.14A-B. © Kay WalkingStick. Image courtesy of the Denver Art Museum; Eastman Johnson, The Conversation, 1879. Oil on paper board, 22 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches. Museum purchase, 1942.42.
Exhibition and program credits:
Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 is organized by the Grey Art Museum, New York University. Curated by Debra Bricker Balken with Lynn Gumpert, the exhibition is made possible in part by generous support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, sponsor of the international tour; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation; Hauser & Wirth; Robert E. Holmes and David Hubensky; the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; The Falkenstein Foundation; the O’Brien Art Foundation; the Sam Francis Foundation; Francis H. Williams and Keris Salmon; the Al Held Foundation; David Hall Gallery, LLC, Wellesley, MA; the Grey’s Director’s Circle, Inter/National Council, and Friends; and the Abby Weed Grey Trust. In-kind support is provided by ArtCare Conservation, Ryan Lee Gallery, and Les Films du Jeudi. Support for the publication has been provided by the Boris Lurie Art Foundation; the Henry Luce Foundation; and the Schaina & Josephina Lurje Memorial Foundation. Funding for travel and research was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art; Global Research Initiatives, Office of the Provost, NYU; and the RISD Professional Development Fund. Generous support for the Addison’s presentation of this exhibition has been provided by the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, the Sidney R. Knafel Fund, the Mark Rudkin Fund, the Sam Francis Foundation, and James H. ’61 & Liliane Rubin P’91, ’95.
Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School has been organized by the New-York Historical Society. Major support is provided by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. Generous support for the Addison’s presentation of this exhibition has been provided by Katherine D. and Stephen C. Sherrill (PA 1971, and P 2005, 2007, 2010) and the Elizabeth and Anthony Enders Exhibitions Fund.
Generous support for Figure/Ground has been provided by the Mollie Bennett Lupe and Garland M. Lasater Exhibition Fund.
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