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Celebrating Jasper Johns
“Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.” - Jasper Johns
One of American’s greatest and most influential living artists, Jasper Johns celebrates his 83rd Birthday today. Born in Georgia, he soon moved to New York City, where he met artists Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage, all of whom profoundly influenced each other. 

The relationships of these artists were recently explored in our landmark exhibition Dancing Around the Bride now being shown with great acclaim at the Barbican Centre, London. However, you can still catch works by Jasper Johns right here in Philadelphia. Gallery 171 has been dedicated to Johns since the 70’s and Gallery 182 includes works by both Duchamp and Johns. Honor his birthday with a trip to the Museum!

artnet:

Celebrating Jasper Johns

“Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.” - Jasper Johns

One of American’s greatest and most influential living artists, Jasper Johns celebrates his 83rd Birthday today. Born in Georgia, he soon moved to New York City, where he met artists Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage, all of whom profoundly influenced each other. 

The relationships of these artists were recently explored in our landmark exhibition Dancing Around the Bride now being shown with great acclaim at the Barbican Centre, London. However, you can still catch works by Jasper Johns right here in Philadelphia. Gallery 171 has been dedicated to Johns since the 70’s and Gallery 182 includes works by both Duchamp and Johns. Honor his birthday with a trip to the Museum!

(via sfmoma)

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Great and Mighty Artist of the Day:

Jon Serl
Born Olean, New York, 1894; died Lake Elsinore, California, 1993

Raised in a family of vaudevillians from Upstate New York, Serl moved to California and worked as a voiceover actor for film. Many of his large-scale oil paintings draw from his childhood experiences as a performer.
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“Guardian Angel,” 18th century, Cuzco, Peru
Explore New York collectors Roberta and Richard Huber’s sumptuous display of Spanish and Portuguese colonial art in “Journeys to New Worlds,” on view in the Perelman Building through May 19: http://bit.ly/Z5yGhZ

“Guardian Angel,” 18th century, Cuzco, Peru

Explore New York collectors Roberta and Richard Huber’s sumptuous display of Spanish and Portuguese colonial art in “Journeys to New Worlds,” on view in the Perelman Building through May 19: http://bit.ly/Z5yGhZ



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More Art Monday: Collection Travelogue

Some of the works in our collection have accrued impressive mileage while traveling to exhibitions in other museums. Check them out in this travelogue. Brought to you by ART 24/7

Image 1: “Lute Player”, c. 1620, Theodor Rombouts, Flemish
Now on view at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Distance: 214 miles

Image 2: “Face Vessel”, c. 1860-70, Attributed to Thomas J. Davies Pottery
Now on view at The Georgia Museum of Art
Distance: 728 miles

Image 3: “Christ Healing a Lunatic and Judas Receiving Thirty Pieces of Silver”, c. 1425-26, Francesco d’Antonio, Italian
Now on view at Palazzo Strozzi
Distance: 4,246 miles

Image 4: “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)”, 1936, Salvador Dalí, Spanish
Now on view at Museo Reina Sofía
Distance: 3,665 miles


Image 5:
“Fountain”, 1950 (replica of 1917 original), Marcel Duchamp, American (born France), © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp
Now on view at Barbican Centre
Distance: 3,546 miles

Image 6:
“Wounded Soldier”, 1914, Marc Chagall, French, © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Now on view at Musée du Luxembourg Paris (official)
Distance: 3,711 miles

Image 7: “Ewer: Scene from the Triumph of Scipio”, 1875, Decoration designed and executed by Thomas John Bott, Jr., English
Now on view at The New Orleans Museum of Art
Distance: 1,089 miles

Image 8: “Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge”, 1879, Mary Stevenson Cassatt, American
Now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Distance: 104 miles

Image 9:
“Man with a Lamb”, 1943-44, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, Spanish
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Now on view at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

Distance: 3,624 miles

Image 10: “Tomb in Three Parts”, 1923, Paul Klee, Swiss
Now on view at Fundación Juan March
Distance: 3,665 miles

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“Great and Might” artist of the day: Elijah Pierce. A licensed preacher, professional barber, and prolific woodcarver, Pierce is known for his “sermons in wood,” colorful relief panels depicting biblical scenes, cultural figures, and images of American life, which he displayed in his barbershop in Columbus, Ohio. For more on Pierce and the 26 other artists in the exhibition “Great and Mighty Things,” visit http://bit.ly/YzG3eO

 

“‘Love’ (Martin Luther King, Jr.),” date unknown http://bit.ly/YbEA35

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 Feeling good at 90: Spry soon-to-be-nonagenarian Ellsworth Kelly enjoys a moment with Carlos Basualdo, The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art, in the Museum’s newest installation, Homage to Ellsworth Kelly, in galleries 172 and 175. Background image: “Red Yellow Blue White,” 1952, by Ellsworth Kelly © Ellsworth Kelly 

 Feeling good at 90: Spry soon-to-be-nonagenarian Ellsworth Kelly enjoys a moment with Carlos Basualdo, The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art, in the Museum’s newest installation, Homage to Ellsworth Kelly, in galleries 172 and 175.

Background image: “Red Yellow Blue White,” 1952, by Ellsworth Kelly © Ellsworth Kelly 

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Art Talk this Wednesday night: Donna Corbin, The Louis C. Madeira IV Associate Curator of European Decorative Arts, discusses three of her favorite objects from important seventeenth- and eighteenth-century commissions: http://bit.ly/ZSQjRq
“Nanny Goat,” c. 1732, made in Meissen, Germany

Art Talk this Wednesday night: Donna Corbin, The Louis C. Madeira IV Associate Curator of European Decorative Arts, discusses three of her favorite objects from important seventeenth- and eighteenth-century commissions: http://bit.ly/ZSQjRq

“Nanny Goat,” c. 1732, made in Meissen, Germany

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“Self-Portrait,” c. 1978 (negative); 2003 (print), Samuel Foss
© Samuel Fosso, Courtesy JM Patras/Paris
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/274028.html

“Self-Portrait,” c. 1978 (negative); 2003 (print), Samuel Foss

© Samuel Fosso, Courtesy JM Patras/Paris

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/274028.html

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“Self-Portrait as Robinson and Rejlander,” 1964 (negative); c. 1970 (print), Jerry N. Uelsmann
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/219776.html

“Self-Portrait as Robinson and Rejlander,” 1964 (negative); c. 1970 (print), Jerry N. Uelsmann

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/219776.html

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“Self-Portrait in New York,” 1936, David Alfaro Siqueiros
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/71024.html

“Self-Portrait in New York,” 1936, David Alfaro Siqueiros

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/71024.html