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Ransoming Mathew
Brady:
Re-Imagining the Civil War
Recent Paintings by John Ransom Phillips
June 19–October 3, 2010
This remarkable exhibition includes more
than 20 works ranging from large-scale oil painting to watercolors
related to the Civil War. Phillip’s imagery is inspired by the life of
19th-century photographer Mathew Brady and the American poet Walt
Whitman. Alan Trachtenberg, in his catalog essay, describes Phillips’s
paintings as part history and part discourse on America, with Mathew
Brady as a central figure, like a comic strip figure of the American
Everyman. According to Trachtenberg, “The power of the work lies in
Phillips’s grasp of the role played by the many-sided Mathew Brady in
the mythic history of the nation.”
John Ransom Phillips’s work has been exhibited internationally at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art in Chicago, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, and the Heidi Cho Gallery in New York. He has been a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He has a Ph.D. in the history of culture from the University of Chicago.
A companion exhibition titled,
Ransoming Mathew Brady: Searching for Celebrity, will be on
display at the
Opalka Gallery of the Sage Colleges, 140 New Scotland Ave., in
Albany, from June 4 to July 30. That exhibition will include 28 of
Phillips’s paintings that deal with Brady’s portraits of famous
Americans from the period.
RELATED EVENTS
MEMBERS PREVIEW AND
GALLERY TALK BY THE ARTIST
▪ Saturday, June
19, 2010, 10:00
am
John Ransom Phillips
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Left: Shades, John Ransom Phillips, 2005, oil on linen, 62 in. × 46 in.
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This exhibition is accompanied
by a lavishly illustrated
monograph entitled, John
Ransom Phillips: Ransoming Matthew Brady, which also contains a
book-length essay
by author and Yale professor,
Alan Trachtenberg.
“There has perhaps never
been anything quite like Ransoming Mathew Brady
in the genre of history painting.”
—Alan Trachtenberg
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ext. 459, for details.
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