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Newark Museum loans two paintings to Smithsonian and Metropolitan Museum of Art for major exhibition |
| July 22nd, 2012 01:35:10 am |
NEWARK, NJ.- Two treasured pieces f rom the Newark Museum ’s permanent collection will be on loan to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, for its exhibition The Civil War and American Art. The exhibition will be on view in Washington from Nov. 16, 2012 through April 28, 2013, after which it will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, N.Y., May 21, 2013 through September 2, 2013. The first of the two paintings to be loaned for this major exhibition is Winslow Homer’s “Near Andersonville,” a master work in the Newark Museum collection and a favorite of visitors and students alike. “Near Andersonville” depicts a former slave woman emerging, symbolically, from the darkness of slavery into the sunlight off reedom. In the background, Union soldiers are being led off to the notorious prison |
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