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Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920 (Exhibition)Title: Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920
Curator: Brandon Ruud, Abert Family Curator of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum
Curator: Corey Piper, Brock Curator of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art
Abstract: Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920 is the first major exhibition to focus on the influence of Spanish art and culture on American painting. During the nineteenth century, artists increasingly added Spain to their European tours to study the masterworks in the Prado Museum and to capture the country’s scenic charms and customs. The exhibition features artists and movements that expand upon areas of particular strength in the Museum’s collection, including artists of the Ashcan Circle and the Eight, as well as major canvases by Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, and John Singer Sargent. Also among the highlights are Sargent’s famous Carmencita (1890) from the Musée d’Orsay; a newly discovered painting by Mary Cassatt from a Madrid private collection never before shown in the United States; and Spanish old masters on loan from the Prado Museum that American painters copied.
The exhibition’s more than 100 paintings, photographs, and prints are presented chronologically and organized to emphasize migration, tourism, and travel in nineteenth-century Spain. Additional themes include the romance and the reality of old Spain; Spanish old masters and American copyists at the Prado Museum; Spanish architecture, gardens, and landscapes; Spain’s Islamic history; and the critical and popular responses to American artists’ work.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://mam.org/exhibitions/details/americans-in-spain.phpPrimary URL Description: Milwaukee Art Museum website
Secondary URL:
https://chrysler.org/exhibition/americans-in-spain/Secondary URL Description: Chrysler Museum of Art website
Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920 (Catalog)Title: Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920
Author: Brandon Ruud, Abert Family Curator of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum
Author: Corey Piper, Brock Curator of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art
Abstract: The art and culture of Spain significantly influenced many of America’s most renowned 19th- and 20th-century artists. Mary Cassatt visited the country early in her career and first garnered the attention of the French Impressionists with her paintings of Spanish themes. William Merritt Chase, fascinated with Spanish art, traveled to Madrid and its environs to paint landscapes and study at the Prado. And Robert Henri not only drew on the country’s culture and traditions as a personal muse but repeatedly brought his art students to Spain as part of their training. Featuring works by all of these artists, as well as others such as John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins, this handsome volume reveals the important and varied ways that Spain inspired a century of American artists.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/americans-in-spain-painting-and-travel-1820-1920/oclc/1259452936&referer=brief_resultsPrimary URL Description: Worldcat website
Catalog Type: Exhibition Catalog
Publisher: Yale University Press
The Artist-Travelers Project (Web Resource)Title: The Artist-Travelers Project
Author: Milwaukee Art Museum
Author: Marquette University
Abstract: The Artist-Travelers Project is an interactive website developed by the Milwaukee Art Museum and Marquette University. It explores how artists and other travelers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries experienced Spain through the guidebooks they used, letters they wrote, works they created, routes they took, and more.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://mam.org/artist-travelers/Primary URL Description: Artist-Travelers project landing page on MAM website
Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920 (Article)Title: Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920
Author: Brandon Ruud, Abert Family Curator of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum
Author: Corey Piper, Brock Curator of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art
Abstract: For more than a century, numerous American painters sustained a deep engagement with Spain’s art, people, and culture. Drs. Brandon Ruud and Corey Piper reveal the influence that Spanish painters had on American ones, and how tourism and the culture of travel impacted how the artists experienced Spain.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://amartrev.com/Primary URL Description: American Art Review website
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Art Review
Publisher: American Art Review
Americans in Spain (Blog Post)Title: Americans in Spain
Author: Brandon Ruud, Abert Family Curator of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum
Abstract: Americans in Spain exhibition co-curator Brandon Ruud discusses the exhibition catalogue through the lens of his own trip to Spain in early March 2020 and the recently rediscovered Mary Cassatt painting in a private collection in Madrid.
Date: 8/9/2021
Primary URL:
https://blog.yalebooks.com/2021/08/09/americans-in-spain/Primary URL Description: Website for Yale University Press
Website: Yale University Press
Virtual Lectures: New England Conservatory of Music (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Virtual Lectures: New England Conservatory of Music
Author: Brandon Ruud, Abert Family Curator of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum
Abstract: In February 2022, exhibition curator Brandon Ruud delivered a series of virtual lectures to graduate students who are studying Spanish art, culture, language and music at Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music. This was the first iteration of this type of curriculum for the school, and professor Cameron Stowe plans to use a template for future courses.
Year: 2022
Audience: Graduate
Saucy Cigarreras and Sevillian Barbers: Spain and 19th Century Popular Culture (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Saucy Cigarreras and Sevillian Barbers: Spain and 19th Century Popular Culture
Abstract: Americans in Spain curator Brandon Ruud discusses the impact of 19th century popular visual and literary culture on shaping American artists' encounters with Spain and their depictions of its culture and people.
Author: Brandon Ruud, Abert Family Curator of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum
Date: 2/24/2021
Location: Norfolk Society of Arts (Virtual)
Primary URL:
https://norfolksocietyofarts.org/blog/in-the-news/Primary URL Description: Norfolk Society of Arts blog
Secondary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CalI1I6ynEsSecondary URL Description: YouTube video of the talk
Cafe transatlantico--Shared Visions on Museums and Art (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Cafe transatlantico--Shared Visions on Museums and Art
Abstract: Exhibition curators Brandon Ruud and Corey Piper participated in a dialogue with colleague Clara Marcellán of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza sponsored by the Embassy of Spain in the U.S. that explored the intersections of Spanish and American art in both countries’ museums.
Author: Brandon Ruud, Abert Family Curator of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum
Author: Clara Marcellán, Curator of Modern Painting, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Author: Corey Piper, Brock Curator of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art
Date: 4/13/2021
Location: Embassy of Spain in the U.S. (virtual)
Primary URL:
https://www.spainculture.us/city/online/cafe-transatlantico-shared-visions-on-museums-and-art/.Americans in Spain (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Americans in Spain
Abstract: On April 14, 2021, Corey Piper delivered a virtual lecture related to the exhibition to the University of Virginia Alumni Association. The virtual lecture presented an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920—exploring the themes of the exhibition and the process by which museums create such shows—with co-curator, Corey Piper, Ph.D. (GSAS '17).
Author: Corey Piper, Brock Curator of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art
Date: 4/14/2021
Location: University of Virginia Alumni Association (virtual)
Primary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGgu27H_Yc0Primary URL Description: YouTube video of talk
Americans in Spain (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Americans in Spain
Abstract: On November 17, 2021, Brandon Ruud delivered a virtual lecture to the Associates of the American Wing at the Detroit Institute of Arts. This program focused on the impact of Spain on several major American artists including Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, and Robert Henri.
Author: Brandon Ruud, Abert Family Curator of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum
Date: 11/17/2021
Location: Detroit Institute of Arts (virtual)
Primary URL:
https://www.dia.org/events/aaw-live-americans-spain-painting-and-travel-1820-%E2%80%93-1920.Museum and Library Collections (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)Name: Museum and Library Collections
Abstract: At the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Americans in Spain exhibition spurred the acquisition of art and library special collections, including:
Robert Henri (American, 1865–1929), El Matador (Felix Asiego), 1906; Oil on canvas. Purchase, the Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Abert and Barbara Abert Tooman Fund and with funds in memory of Betty Croasdaile and John E. Julien M2019.1
Joseph Nash (British, 1808–1878) after David Wilkie (British, 1785–1841), Sir David Wilkie's Sketches, Spanish & Oriental, 1846; Lithographs. Decorative Arts Deaccession Fund M2019.106.17
Washington Irving, The Alhambra; with an introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennell; illustrated with drawings of the places mentioned by Joseph Pennell, 1896
Washington Irving, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in Four Volumes, ca. 1828
Director: Marcelle Polednik, PhD, Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://collection.mam.orgPrimary URL Description: MAM collection website
Museum and Library Collections (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)Name: Museum and Library Collections
Abstract: At the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Americans in Spain exhibition spurred the acquisition of artwork, primary and secondary source research materials, and library special collections, including:
Mary Bradish Titcomb (American, 1858 - 1927), The Alhambra, ca. 1906; Oil on canvas. Museum purchase with funds given in memory of Joan Foy French by her daughters Wendy and Christina. 2018.25.1.
Washington Irving, The Alhambra,1852
George Parsons Lathrop, Spanish Vistas, 1883
Thomas Roscoe, The Tourist in Spain: Granada, 1835
Charles H. Caffin, The Story of Spanish Painting, 1910
Austin Whittlesby, The Minor Ecclesiastical, Domestic, and Garden Architecture of Southern Spain, 1917
Edmondo de Amicis, Spain and the Spaniards, 1895
John Hay, Castilian Days, 1903
Director: Erik H. Neil, Director and CEO, Chrysler Museum of Art
Year: 2018
Primary URL:
https://chrysler.emuseum.com/objects/65834/the-alhambra;jsessionid=4CCB7CD3D94A4D05E833F17CC31EBD3EPrimary URL Description: Chrysler collection webpage
Secondary URL:
https://chrysler.org/library/Secondary URL Description: CMA library website