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current exhibitions
From 1874 to 1891, at the invitation of Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C., president, the Italian painter Luigi Gregori was a professor and artist-in-residence at the University of Notre Dame. During his tenure Gregori transformed the interiors of the initial campus buildings with many large-scale murals. More than a century later, Gregori's art continues to appeal to students and visitors alike.
Artist in Residence: Working Drawings by Luigi Gregori (1819-1896) showcases Gregori's sketches for the murals in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and Main Building. As the first exhibition dedicated to his graphic oeuvre, the show explores Gregori's drawing style, working methods, and techniques. With his drawings as illustrations, it presents new research regarding his biography and artistic training. The contemporary impact of Gregori's work at Notre Dame is also considered, and historical contextualization is aided by the inclusion of a few artifacts and photographs on loan from University Archives.
The guest curator of this exhibition is Sophia Meyers, an alumna of Notre Dame and former Bock Family Graduate Intern at the Snite Museum of Art.
She will present a gallery talk at 3:00 p.m. during the Sunday, February 26 reception for all of the special exhibitions.
The drawings were bequeathed to the University by Gregori and now reside in the Snite Museum Collection.
Click here to view a PDF of the exhibition catalog.
For the price of $10/each copies can be purchased from the front entrance visitor information desk, which is only staffed duiring normal gallery hours on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
All three illustrated drawings are by Luigi Gregori (Italian, 1819–1896):
Saint Paul and Saint Peter, 1874–1878
watercolor and gouache over black chalk on wove paper
11.50 x 7.25 inches (sheet)
Gift of the artist
1977.005.020.DD
Christopher and Diego Columbus at the Gate of the Convent of La Rabida, 1880–1884
graphite and brown ink on tracing paper
7.75 x 4.75 inches (image)
Gift of the artist
AA2009.056.010
Christopher and Diego Columbus at the Gate of the Convent of La Rabida, 1880–1884
black ink with watercolor and gouache over black chalk and graphite on wove paper
7.75 x 4.75 inches (image)
Gift of the artist
1977.005.020.BB
In collaboration with Prof. Julia Douthwaite, French and Francophone Studies, the Museum will install two exhibitions and be the venue for a series of events that highlight the contributions made to modern humanitarian thinking by the Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78).
Douthwaite organized the exhibitions and academic programs to honor the tercentennial of Rousseau's birth and stimulate a cross-disciplinary discussion on social justice and human dignity.
The coursework of spring semester classes offered in a variety of disciplines in the College of Arts and Letters, as well as those in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Law School's Center for Civil and Human Rights will include visits to the exhibits and encourage attendance to the accompanying lecture series.
The DIGNITY exhibition is a smaller version of the photography exhibition, DIGNITÉ: Droits Humains et Pauvreté (DIGNITY: Human Rights and Poverty), commissioned and organized by Amnesty International France, which Douthwaite viewed in Paris. The Snite Museum version will consist of fifty-two, color, large-format digital photographs by five photographers. It features portraits, landscapes, and personal testimonies of poverty-stricken people living today in Mexico, Egypt, Nigeria, India and Macedonia. The five photographers are Guillaume Herbaut, Michaël Zumstein, Jean-François Joly, Philippe Brault, and Johann Rousselot. Rousselot will visit campus in February to speak in the Museum about his work, as will Brault in March.
The second exhibition, A Person's Worth, contains nine prints, three drawings and three photographs selected from the collections of the Museum. These 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century images of peasants and craftsmen are offered as examples of how little the economic status of the general population has changed since Rousseau wrote his treatise, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, in 1754.
With the permission of Amnesty International, a condensed English-language version of the DIGNITÉ exhibition catalog will be available. The French text was translated into English by degree candidates Lea Malewitz '12, Lauren Wester '11, MA '12, and Douthwaite, and the catalog designed by degree candidate Marie Bourgeois MFA '12 under the artistic direction of Robert Sedlack, associate professor of graphic design.
The exhibits and events in the Snite Museum are made possible in part by a grant in support for the "Rousseau 2011: On the Road to DIGNITY Project" from the Henkels Lecture Fund, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame. Additional support has been provided by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; the Kellogg Institute for International Studies; the Program in Liberal Studies; the Department of Political Science; the Department of History; the Center for Social Concerns; the Undergraduate Minor in Poverty Studies; the Program in Gender Studies; and the Department of American Studies.
Illustrated by two images (one per exhibition)
Portrait of Trilachan Mohanta, Orissa, India 2008
Johann Rousselot (French, born 1971)
Reproduced courtesy of Rousselot and Amnesty International France
Mendicanti (Beggars), 1924
Robert S. Austin, A.R.E. (English, 1895–1973)
etching
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Elbel
1987.049.008
Video Interviews with the photographers and Curator
Publication:
Exhibition Catalog
Study Guide
This exhibit will include twenty-eight posters and ten books produced by Puerto Rican graphic artists who worked for the island's Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO), a government agency formed in 1949 as one of the initial acts of the territory's first-elected governor, Luis Muñoz Marín, a poet, journalist and politician. "A unique and powerful adaption of New Deal-era programs," DIVEDCO placed didactic art at the center of a massive public education campaign that aimed—through the production of posters, books, and short films—to teach the island's predominantly rural population about important issues such as community-building, democracy, conflict resolution and public health. Many of the works by the DIVEDCO artists also drew attention to Puerto Rico's rural cultural traditions, many of which were disappearing due to industrialization and ever-increasing U.S. influence on the island.
Most of the posters and book covers produced for the DIVEDCO and included in this exhibition were designed by the island's best-known and most accomplished graphic artists: Lorenzo Homar, Rafael Tufiño, Antonio Maldonado, Carlos Raquel Rivera, Eduardo Vera Cortés, Rafael Delgado Castro, and José Meléndez Contreras. Their graphic works made silkscreen technique the most popular one in Puerto Rico.
The exhibition is comprised of a selection of works from the private collection of professors Marisel C. Moreno and Thomas F. Anderson, and will be used during the semester as an instructional tool by them and other ND faculty for classes in Spanish language and literature.
The following University units generously provided underwriting support for the exhibition and catalog: The José E. Fernández Caribbean Initiative, The Boehnen Fund for Excellence in the Arts; The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts; The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies; Multicultural Student Programs and Services; The Institute for Latino Studies; The Office of Undergraduate Studies; The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; and Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures.
Click here to view a PDF of the catalog
Nenén de la ruta mora (Nenén of the Moorish Way), 1956
Carlos Raquel Rivera
Puerto Rican, 1923-1999
lithograph
On loan from the Collection of Marisel C. Moreno and Thomas F. Anderson
Organized by art history graduate student Elizabeth Peterson, this focus exhibition explores the decorative principles established in Italy by the Renaissance humanist and architect Leon Battista Alberti (1401–72) and their dissemination to France in subsequent centuries. Rarely displayed drawings by Perino del Vaga, Giorgio Vasari, Charles de la Fosse, Charles Percier, Gilles-Marie Oppenord, and Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune among others introduce the integral, if subordinate, role of ornament in architecture.
A Design for a Section of a Frieze Decoration, ca. 1540–45
Perino del Vaga (Italian, 1501–47)
pen and brown ink and wash on laid paper
2.63 x 5.75 inches
On extended loan as a promised gift from Mr. John D. Reilly '63
L1997.057.001
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