The New Britain Museum of American Art presents Women Reframe American Landscape
The New Britain Museum of American Art presents special exhibition Women Reframe American Landscape, from November 18, 2023, through March 31, 2024.
Illuminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women, this two-part exhibition includes the first retrospective of the nineteenth-century American artist Susie M. Barstow (1836–1923) and a presentation of contemporary works by artistsTeresita Fernández, Guerrilla Girls, Marie Lorenz, Tanya Marcuse, Mary Mattingly, Ebony G. Patterson, Anna Plesset, Wendy Red Star, Jean Shin, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Cecilia Vicuña, Kay WalkingStick, and Saya Woolfalk. Engaging multigenerational perspectives, this exhibition recenters women in the canon of American art and expands how we think about land and landscape.
The nineteenth-century portion of this two-part exhibition includes the first ever solo exhibition and deep dive into the life and work of artist Susie M. Barstow (1836-1923), who exhibited and sold work alongside Hudson River School icons such as Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, and Asher Brown Durand, but has received little scholarly attention until now. A prolific and important artist in her day, major works by Barstow are on view, along with the artist’s sketches and materials and a selection of works by artists in her circle, including Julie Hart Beers, Fidelia Bridges, Charlotte Buell Coman, Eliza Greatorex, Mary Josephine Walters, and Laura Woodward.
In conversation with Barstow and her nineteenth-century circle, the exhibition features works by thirteen internationally-acclaimed artists, who draw upon diverse processes and perspectives to complicate and rethink our relationship to land and landscape today. Responding to and at times challenging historical narratives, many of the artists created unique, site-responsive installations for this exhibition.
Organized by the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in partnership with the New Britain Museum of American Art, this is one initiative among many to continually see landscape art in the United States as dynamic, multifaceted, and evolving. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Nancy Siegel, Professor of Art History at Towson University; Kate Menconeri, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, Contemporary Art, and Fellowship at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, and Amanda Malmstrom, Associate Curator at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. It is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue published by Hirmer that includes essays by the curators, a conversation between Candice Hopkins and Jolene Rickard, texts and plates by the artists, and a timeline on women, land, and art. Additionally, the exhibition coincides with the first monograph on Susie M. Barstow authored by Nancy Siegel.
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