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Samuel Palmer (1805–1881): Vision and Landscape
March 7, 2006–May 29, 2006
Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs and The Howard Gilman Gallery, 2nd floor
Samuel Palmer ranks among the most important British landscape painters of the Romantic era. This exhibition—the first major retrospective of Palmer's work in nearly 80 years—celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth and unites approximately 100 of his finest watercolors, drawings, etchings, and oils from public and private collections in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and the United States. The exhibition highlights the artist’s celebrated early work, executed in a visionary style inspired by William Blake, and reexamines Palmer’s vibrant middle-period Italian studies and masterful late watercolors and etchings. It also includes a selection of works by artists in Palmer's circle.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition is made possible by Gilbert and Ildiko Butler.
Additional support has been provided by William G. and Grace Brantley Anderson, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and The Schiff Foundation.
The exhibition was organized by The British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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