“If they come for Star Wars and leave having seen Kara Walker. “What would be fantastic is if people came looking for Star Wars and learn about Ralph McQuarrie and then they learn about Gentileschi,” Jackson-Dumont says. While some may feel that Rockwell and Baca, or Gentileschi and Star Wars illustrator Ralph McQuarrie, are strange bedfellows, the museum’s leaders are sanguine. And in a less publicised acquisition in October 2020, the museum paid $2.13m against a pre-sale estimate of $1m to $1.5m at Christie’s for The Triumph of Galatea (around 1650), a Baroque painting of the nymph from Greek mythology, attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi and associate.Ĭriselda Vasquez's The New American Gothic (2017) portrays the artist's parents in place of the farmers in Grant Wood’s original 1930 composition Courtesy of Criselda Vasquez Serendipitous encounters Late last year it bought one of Frida Kahlo's celebrated self-portraits, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Dr Eloesser (1940). In May it paid $15.3m, including fees, at Sotheby’s for Robert Colescott’s rambunctious send-up of a history painting, George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook from 1975. In September it bought privately a painting that was in Alice Neel's retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fish Market (1947), which shows the friendly commotion of an East Harlem market. Since their appointments in 2020, the museum has made several important purchases. Sandra Jackson-Dumont joined as the museum's chief executive and director in January 2020 Photo: Rebecca Schear courtesy of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Artīut the institution’s expanded mission has become even more substantial and visible under its new leadership: the chief executive and director, Sandra Jackson-Dumont (previously head of education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York), and the chief curator, Pilar Tompkins Rivas (formerly head of the Vincent Price Art Museum in Monterey Park, California). And it was reflected in some acquisitions by the museum’s founding director, Don Bacigalupi, most notably the archive of the artist Judy Baca-around 350 objects from sketches to correspondence-from her epic 1970s (and still ongoing) mural project about California’s multicultural history known as The Great Wall of Los Angeles. The more expansive and inclusive vision comes both from Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, a prominent Black business leader and philanthropist whom he married in 2013. The focus is extending well beyond the fantasy of an innocent white America featured in Rockwell’s work to include art by major Black and Latino artists. To many, it simply seemed like a superficial way of grouping the comics, illustration art and Norman Rockwell paintings that Lucas has long collected along with some beloved Star Wars art, costumes and other artefacts from the extensive Lucasfilm Archives.īut these days, with construction of the museum in Los Angeles well under way (the projected opening is in 2023) and a string of recent acquisitions, the museum’s interest in visual storytelling and mythmaking-as well as myth-busting-is evolving. When the filmmaker George Lucas announced his plans to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art nearly a decade ago, the idea of “narrative art” seemed as flimsy as a makeshift Hollywood stage set.
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