From Here to the Horizon:
American Landscape Prints from Whistler to Celmins

The David and Ruth Robinson Eisenberg Gallery
Feb 16, 2008 - Jul 31, 2008

This American print survey presents more than a century of panoramic vistas featuring the horizon – the great demarcation between earth and sky, world and universe. Sweeping landscape views have inspired a wonder for nature and the immensity of world, as well as, perhaps, a wish to reach new levels (or horizons) of attainment. This exhibition will explore how different graphic artists have represented the topography of places nearby and faraway, real or imagined, whether dramatic wilderness, coastal scenes, rural settings, or places on the periphery of inhabited communities.

J.A.M. Whistler and Vija Celmins each depict a body of water in an evocative way, yet each artist’s approach is different. For his etching of the Venice lagoon, Whistler made a few wispy lines to suggest expanses of water and sky. Celmins’s lithograph of a section of the ocean’s surface is almost photo-realistic in detail, prompting simultaneous contemplation of the specific and the timeless, the finite and the infinite. This exhibition also includes early twentieth-century prints by John Taylor Arms, Gustave Baumann, Kerr Eby, Frances Gearhart, Childe Hassam, Paul Landacre, Blanche Lazzell, Grant Wood, and many others. Among the contemporary artists represented are John Beerman, Richard Bosman, April Gornick, Michael Mazur, Susan Shatter, and Altoon Sultan, as well as other examples from the Zimmerli’s Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios.

Admission:
$3.00 per person for adults who are not members of the museum. Entrance to the museum is free at all times for members, all children under 18, and Rutgers University students, faculty, and staff with a valid I.D. In addition, the first Sunday of each month will be free to all.