On View at the Benton
Unfiltered: An Exhibition About Water
This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the departments of Natural Resources and the Environment, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Marine Sciences, Institute of Water Resources; as well as the CLEAR, CT Sea Grant, and CT NEMO Programs at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Unfiltered explores water as a universal concern and touches specifically on the themes of: the power of water and the changing landscape, water pollution and biology, water scarcity, climate change, the physical properties of water, and the Connecticut River. The exhibition attempts to place on view works of art which provide visual launching points for discussions about these important water-based issues. The following artists are included in this exhibition: contemporary artists Diana Barker Price, Will Sillin, Leif Nilsson, Stacy Levy, Ravi Agarwal, Vibha Galhotra, Kate Cordsen, Susan Hoffman Fishman, Jamie Murphy, Michael Singer, Rani Jha, and Atul Bhalla; as well as nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists: Lionel Feininger, Frederick Judd Waugh, Reginald Marsh, Arthur B. Davies, Gerrit Hondius, Martin Johnson Heade, Fairfield Porter, Maurice Prendergast, Henry Ward Ranger, and Robert Motherwell.
This exhibition is on view August 31 through December 17, 2017
Marking 35 Years: The Work of Deborah Dancy
Deborah Dancy is a painter whose abstract work describes odd invented spaces and stacked structures. Subtle tonalities and fragmented lines become descriptive markers in work that suggests familiar yet ambiguous spaces. Dancy works in a variety of mediums, large-scale oil paintings, mixed media on paper, printmaking and artists’ books. Professor Dancy has been on the faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Connecticut since 1981.
This exhibition is on view August 31 through October 15, 2017.
An ongoing exhibition of works from the permanent collection
The Benton is pleased to present a changing selection of its most prized possessions that span five centuries. We begin with a sixteenth-century double portrait by the Spanish court painter Alonso Sanchez Coello, whose unidentified subjects are a well-dressed noblewoman and child. Also featured is another image of maternal affection in the work Woman and Child by the American impressionist Mary Cassatt.
In addition to portraiture, the exhibition includes examples of landscape painting, religious imagery, and genre scenes. Of particular note is Gabrielle Münter’s Fabrik, an excellent example of German Expressionism, Rye Beach, New Hampshire by Martin Johnson Heade.
No exhibition of the Benton’s best would be complete without the work of Reginald Marsh, an American painter, printmaker, and illustrator who graduated from Yale with his good friend William Benton. A large-scale oil painting, along with Marsh’s preparatory sketches, are featured in this exhibition.
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