Albright Art Gallery: Past Exhibitions, 1913-1962
The exhibition history for the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and Albright Art Gallery from 1913-1962.
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery's 150-year tradition of collecting, conserving, and exhibiting the art of its time has given rise to one of the world’s most extraordinary art collections. Thomas Hoving, art historian and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, said that "the Albright-Knox Art Gallery should be on everyone’s list to see, for it’s an overwhelming art experience. Small, intimate, and seductive, the museum has one of the most thumping modern and contemporary collections in the world."
1912-11-01 00:00:00
Exhibitions, 1862-1912
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1913-01-04 00:00:00
Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art
“The American-Scandinavian Society was established primarily to cultivate closer relations between the people of the United States of America and the leading Scandinavian countries, to strengthen the bonds between Scandinavian Americans, and to advance the knowledge of Scandinavian culture among the American public, particularly among the descendants of Scandinavians. The exhibition is remarkable from several points of view. It is one of the few occasions in the history of Scandinavian art that the three countries have united in exhibiting. It is the first time that most of the painters represented, although of international reputation in Europe, have exhibited in the United States, and it comprises, in as far as has been possible, the best work of living artists.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1913-02-08 00:00:00
Exhibition of Contemporary German Graphic Art
1913-02-08 00:00:00
Exhibition of Small Bronzes
1913-03-11 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings by Robert Reid
1913-03-11 00:00:00
The Bahr Collection of Early Chinese Paintings, Pottery, and Bronzes
“The dates of Chinese paintings and works of art are reckoned by various dynasties, and the following are represented in this exhibition-Shang Dynasty, Chow Dynasty, Han Dynasty, Wei Dynasty, T’ang Dynasty, Sung Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, and Ming Dynasty. This small collection of very early Chinese bronzes is worthy of particular attention from rarity, form, and extreme age which has given a beauty of patina to the surface, and form the high appreciation in which the Far Eastern collectors have always held such works of ancient art.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1913-03-11 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by John H. Twachtman
“Mr. Twachtman was a master of the tranquil, every day moods of nature. He found inspiration not so much in spectacular scenery and stormy skies as in the effect of light and atmosphere on common objects - an old house, a pasture, a tumbling brook, a quiet seaport town. These simple motifs, rendered in graceful line and harmonious color, pronounced his masterpieces. He worked directly from nature, and, although his paintings represent actual scenes, he eliminated the nonessentials, giving us the very synthesis of nature, to which nothing could be added or taken away. His sole aim was to see beauty in nature and present it truthfully- and so long as the beauty are admired this art will live.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1913-04-09 00:00:00
Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Water Colors by Walter Gay
“Having accomplished an artistic evolution that is easily followed in his works, Mr. Gay has abandoned the composition of ancient genre pictures to depict instead the effects of nature and modern interiors, as seen through a very personal temperament.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1913-04-12 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Paul Albert Besnard
“In all these works he shows varied talent, great originality, and a feeling peculiarly his own for color, mass, line, and harmony. Mr. Besnard takes great care in painting his portraits to study his models in motion and in their familiar attitudes, aiming to reproduce their characteristics of gesture and physiognomy and catch, as it were, their moral and psychological likeness.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1913-05-10 00:00:00
Eighth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists
1913-09-11 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings by Alexander Harrison and Birge Harrison
1913-09-15 00:00:00
Exhibition of Portraits by Auguste Benziger
1913-10-09 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings by Lucien Simon of Paris
1913-11-20 00:00:00
Special Exhibition - Constantin Meunier
“He was in truth an existence fraught with work and dreams. The work was arduous, the dreams full of gentle, mystic fervor. Though he lived to realize in goodly number his conceptions of form, colour, and movement, he was never satisfied. He remodeled statue after statue and group after group, striving to get closer and closer to the outward variety and the inner vision.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1913-12-16 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings by Louis Kronberg
“Mr. Kronberg has painted some of the most noted persons in America and in Europe. He has specialized, however, upon pictures of the stage, and his work is in the possession Art Institutions, well known art collectors, and artists.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1914-01-04 00:00:00
Exhibition of Original Works by Leon Bakst
1914-01-04 00:00:00
Exhibition of Contemporary Graphic Art in Hungary, Bohemia, and Austria
1914-02-11 00:00:00
Exhibition of Works by Buffalo Artists (First local salon)
“The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, wishes to express its pleasure and satisfaction at being able for the first time to present to the people of Buffalo a truly comprehensive and most creditable exhibition of the work of Buffalo Artists. In the organization of this, the first Local Salon, the Academy confidently expects to assist in establishing a permanent interest in the works of those who have done much towards making a genuine art atmosphere in this city.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1914-03-10 00:00:00
Exhibition of Muhammadan Miniature Painting
1914-03-17 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings by Harrington Mann
1914-04-15 00:00:00
Exhibition of Recent Works by William Orpen, A. R. A., R. H. A.
“One remarkable fact about Mr. Orpen is his extraordinary versatility; he is continually experimenting, but, unlike many artists, he brings each experiment to the point of perfection.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1914-05-16 00:00:00
Ninth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists
1914-09-10 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes, and Graphic Works by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon
1914-10-03 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings of the Panama Canal by Jonas Lie
“In these paintings Jonas Lie has attempted and achieved two things: to interpret the epic quality of the profound genius and the conquering labor that has gone into the building of the Panama Canal and to preserve a pictorial record of that stage of its making which lay between the plan and the fruition.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1914-10-24 00:00:00
A Loan Exhibition of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Eighteenth Century, and Modern American Tapestries
1914-11-28 00:00:00
Carroll Beckwith, N.A.
1914-12-05 00:00:00
George Hitchcock
1914-12-10 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings by Elliott Daingerfield, N.A.
“He is a poet, a dreamer, dwelling in the realms of the ideal, and all his work shows a deep reverence for the beautiful.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1915-01-13 00:00:00
Exhibition of Early Chinese Paintings of the T’ang, Dung, and Yuan Dynasties A. D. 600-1400
1915-01-13 00:00:00
A Collection of Wood Carvings of Mediaeval and Renaissance Art
1915-01-30 00:00:00
Exhibition of the Old Masters of Photography, Arranged by Alvin Langdon Coburn
1915-01-30 00:00:00
Exhibition of Water Colors and Charcoal Drawings by F. Hopkinson Smith
1915-01-30 00:00:00
Exhibition of Wood Engravings
1915-03-06 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings by American and European Artists
1915-03-06 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings by Frank C. Penfold
1915-04-17 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings and Sketches by Alfred Philippe Roll
1915-05-22 00:00:00
Tenth Annual Exhibition of Selected paintings by American Artists
1915-09-30 00:00:00
The Mary Blair Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Art
1915-10-09 00:00:00
Exhibition of Sculpture by Paul Manship, A.N.A
1915-12-05 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings, Miniatures, and Sculpture by Members of the Guild of Boston Artists
“The guild of Boston Artists, which consist of about forty of the foremost painters and sculptors of Boston, and five hundred associate members, has organized a 'Traveling Exhibition' of the work of the artists members, which is to be shown in the art museums of many principal cities in America. This exhibition of paintings and sculptures will emphasize the position which artists of Boston have achieved in the art world, and will demonstrate the fact that this city has lost none of the prestige in art which was established in Revolutionary days, when it produced the first great American painter, John Singleton Copley.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
1915-12-05 00:00:00
Exhibition of Chinese and Japanese Brocades, 1400 to 1812 A. D.
1916-01-09 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings Selected from the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Museum of Art
1916-02-09 00:00:00
Exhibition of Men Who Paint the Far West
1916-02-09 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings by Stephen Parrish
1916-02-09 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings by Charles Caryl Coleman
1916-03-11 00:00:00
Exhibition of French and Belgian Art selected from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
1916-04-15 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings, Water colors, Pastels, and Etchings by Childe Hassam, N. A.
1916-04-15 00:00:00
Exhibition of Paintings, Etchings, and Lithographs by Antonio Barone
1916-06-17 00:00:00
Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture held under the auspices of The National Sculpture Society
1916-10-29 00:00:00
Catalogue of A Retrospective Collection of French Art, 1870-1910
“In the present collection of paintings, sculptures, and medals from the Luxembourg Museum the people of Buffalo have the rare privilege of familiarizing themselves with the trend of French Art from 1870-1910 by representative examples of that period. The date 1870 is a memorable one in the history of French Art, it marks the birth of Impressionism.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)