Kimbell Museum - Photography’s First Century (Docent guided tour):
The Kimbell’s first-ever exhibition celebrating the art of photography will trace the history of the medium’s first century of exploration and discovery, from the rise of the Daguerreotype and the calotype in the 1840s to the age of modernism between the World Wars. The Bibliothèque nationale de France—the country’s great national library—holds one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of photographs in the world. Drawn from these rich holdings, this survey of more than 150 images includes work by Henri Le Secq, Gustave le Gray, Félix Tournachon (Nadar), Édouard Baldus, Louis-Émile Durandelle, Eugène Atget, Sonia Delaunay, André Kertesz, Rogi André, Man Ray, and Brassaï.
Amon Carter Museum -The Statue of Liberty from Bartholdi to Warhol
On view during the 250th anniversary year of the United States of America, The Statue of Liberty from Bartholdi to Warhol highlights the Statue of Liberty’s continued relevance in American visual culture and the evolution of its image through art from the 1870s to the present. Co-organized with the Denver Art Museum, this exhibition examines the statue’s various representations in visual culture, from an artistic muse to a pop-culture icon to a symbol of immigration, patriotism, and resistance.
The Statue of Liberty from Bartholdi to Warhol is anchored by a rare cast of French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s bronze sculpture Liberty Enlightening the World (Statue of Liberty) (1894-1901), one of only five domestic-scale bronze reductions made during the artist’s lifetime. Bringing together nearly 100 artworks and objects from more than 70 artists, this exhibition showcases how artists, including painters and sculptors, have represented the statue's recognizable form over the past 150 years.
