Kimbell Art Museum

NOW ON VIEW: “Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” Let Old Master paintings, prints, and more transport you to a time when the arts reflected an unprecedented boom in global exploration and trade. Get tickets and plan your visit: https://lnkd.in/gZQV6C44 ___ Installation views of “Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.” Photography by Robert LaPrelle, Kimbell Art Museum

The Washington Post named the Kimbell one of the best small art museums in America! "In Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” when one character calls for a toast, another objects: “This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that.” I feel the same about the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Its main building, designed by Louis Kahn, is the most beautiful museum building in America. The light, the proportions, the sense of space — there’s nothing quite like it. The collection is exquisite. Every work rewards close attention. The experience of spending a couple of hours there is very, very intense. Emotions inevitably arise — good luck keeping them at bay!" — Sebastian Smee Read more: https://lnkd.in/gYUSWyit

Embark on a journey through 17th-century art from the Netherlands in “Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.” Exhibition tickets are on sale now! In the 1600s, artistic production in the Netherlands reached unprecedented levels as international trade skyrocketed. This exhibition will feature more than 125 works of art from this time of growth, including paintings, prints, maps, books, ceramics, and metalwork. See this cultural flourishing captured in works by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and other celebrated artists—all set within the complex, and often dark, histories of global expansion. Learn more and get tickets: https://lnkd.in/gZQV6C44 ___ Ludolf Bakhuizen, “Ships in a Gale on the IJ before the City of Amsterdam,” 1666. Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photograph ? Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

This Friday, join us for “A New Stubbs for the Kimbell,” a lecture presented by Eric M. Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. Dr. Lee will discuss the acquisition of George Stubbs’s “Mares and Foals Belonging to the 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke,” a painting that went on view at the museum only a few months ago. Head to the Piano Pavilion Auditorium on Friday, September 27, from 6 to 7 pm for this free lecture. No registration is required. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ecYRPzi2 ___ George Stubbs, “Mares and Foals Belonging to the 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke,” c. 1761–62. Kimbell Art Museum. Acquired in memory of Ben J. Fortson (1932–2024)

The Kimbell is excited to announce the acquisition of a recently rediscovered painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most celebrated women in the history of European art. “Penitent Mary Magdalene”—a masterpiece of the early seventeenth century—is on view in the Kahn Building. The painting represents the artist at her finest. Born in Rome but active internationally, Artemisia achieved fame not only for her rare status as a woman artist, but also for the brilliance and immediacy of her fluid style. Here, Mary Magdalene is seated in an ornate high-backed chair. Her weary head rests on her hand, which fingers a tendril of her long auburn hair. In the shadows, an ointment jar and a small hand mirror lie on a table. These discarded items, along with her gold gemstone bracelet and pearl earring, identify her as the repentant saint who renounces her former life of luxury and vanity. As she closes her eyes, she reflects on the weight of her sinful past, vowing her devotion to Christ. Seemingly unmindful of her appearance, she casts away her riches and enters a spiritual realm, the beribboned strap of her bodice falling behind her and the lace-trimmed chemise falling to reveal her shoulder in a pool of light. The composition is enlivened by a delicate play of light and shadow, captured in Artemisia’s deft brushwork, describing the Magdalene’s flesh, hair, and clothing. Learn more about the history of this painting and its incredible artist: https://lnkd.in/gyGw7dix ___ Artemisia Gentileschi, “Penitent Mary Magdalene,” 1625–26. Kimbell Art Museum

"The Kimbell has given a home to Stubbs’s art, if not exactly on the range, then at least close by, on its travertine walls." - The Wall Street Journal on our newly acquired painting by George Stubbs "Mares and Foals Belonging to the 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke" is now on view in the south gallery of the Kahn Building. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gWwHC5Xg

"The scale of the 5-century-old artworks must be seen to be believed." –?The Dallas Morning News Read more about the immersive works of art on view in "Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries": https://lnkd.in/gBEdCWX2

Announcing our latest acquisition: George Stubbs’s “Mares and Foals Belonging to the 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke” (c. 1761–62) Widely regarded as the finest painter of animals in the history of European art, Stubbs is best known for his paintings of horses. His genius arose from anatomical study, the empathy he apparently felt for horses, and his ability to express their exquisite beauty. In this canvas, which is slightly more than six feet long by three feet tall and is arguably the greatest painting by the artist in the U.S., a mature bay mare commands the center of a group of two other mares and three foals who nuzzle close to their mothers. The composition is set within a springtime landscape at what is probably the viscount’s family estate with verdant green parkland, cloudy sky, and a broad, dark gray stretch of water providing spatial interest beyond the long, slender legs of the horses. While the overall mood is tranquil and domestic as the horses gently commune with each other, the cloudy sky and the wide, sparkling eyes of the mares add an element of drama and nobility to the composition. This acquisition is made in memory of Ben J. Fortson (1932–2024). See it on view in the Kahn Building beginning today, June 28. Learn more about this work of art: https://lnkd.in/g8unAMrv ___ George Stubbs, “Mares and Foals Belonging to the 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke,” c. 1761–62. Kimbell Art Museum. Acquired in memory of Ben J. Fortson (1932–2024)

“Tapestries are initially challenging to look at. It needs patience . . . You have to kind of give yourself to the tapestry.” – Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Discover how the Battle of Pavia tapestries tell a story on a monumental scale, who commissioned and created them, and how they were restored and conserved hundreds of years later. "Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries" is on view at the Kimbell through September 15, 2024. Buy tickets and learn more: https://lnkd.in/ey_Rrf3b These films were commissioned by The Museum Box. They were filmed and edited by Modio Media.

Get to know the details of this historic battle before you attend "Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries." The exhibition will be on view at the Kimbell June 16 through September 15, 2024. Buy tickets and learn more: https://lnkd.in/ey_Rrf3b These films were commissioned by The Museum Box. They were filmed and edited by Modio Media.