Paintings from Midwestern University Collections: Seventeenth-Twentieth Centuries

15 May–22 June 1975

The relationships between God and Man, man and Nature, Man’s role in society, and the artist’s role in portraying the world have been issues at the forefront of artistic subject matter for centuries. The exhibition, Paintings from Midwestern University Collections: Seventeenth-Twenties Centuries included artists such as Franz Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Nicholas Lancret, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Gainsborough, Eugene Delacroix, J. M. W. Turner and John Singer Sargent. The exhibition explored the stylistic similarities and differences between these masters while allowing each work to comment on the attitudes of its contemporary society.

Catalogue by Millard F. Rogers of the University of Wisconsin and by Robert Yassin of the University of Michigan.

Curator: Committee on Institutional Cooperation and by the participating universities. The exhibition traveled to several of the C.I.C. member institutions including the University of Iowa Museum of Art, The Elvehjem Art Center at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, the Indiana University Art Museum, the Smart Museum of Art, the University Gallery at the University of Minnesota, the Kresge Art Center at Michigan State University, and the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts for Ohio State University.

The project was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

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