Past Fine Arts Gallery Exhibition

June 15 – August 26, 2017 John Taylor Arms (American, 1887-1953) La Torre Del Mangia Siena, 1927 Etching on wove paper 18-11/16” x 11” Gift of Thomas B. Brumbaugh, Professor of Fine Arts, Emeritus In a historical sense, the Grand Tour was a seventeenth- to eighteenth-century phenomenon in which… Read More

April 28 – September 17, 2017 Morris Davidson American (1899-1979) Untitled (209), 1948 Oil on canvas; 32-1/2″ x 40-1/2″ Rosenfeld/Davidson Family Collection Morris Davidson’s career as a painter spanned the decades in which American artists experimented with a wide variety of artistic expression, from social realism to abstraction. Davidson… Read More

March 16 – May 27, 2017 Jean Cocteau (French, 1892–1963)Méditerranée, 196127″ x 20-1/8″Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery CollectionVanderbilt Art Association Acquisition Fund Purchase1970.006© 2017 ADAGP, Paris / Avec l’aimable autorisation de M. Pierre Bergé, président du Comité Jean Cocteau The Dada Effect: An… Read More

January 19 – March 3, 2017 Marilyn Murphy American, b. 1950 Oasis, 2009 Oil on canvas 48″ x 36″ Courtesy the artist This exhibition is presented in honor of Marilyn Murphy, who will retire in 2017 after 37 years of teaching in the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University. Read More