2014 Exhibitions

Roaring Twenties Exuberance and Depression Era Extravagance

Roaring Twenties Exuberance and Depression Era Extravagance

August 17 through November 30, 2014

Entrance Atrium and Milly & Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery

Experience the exuberance of the Roaring Twenties as well as Depression Era extravagance by viewing four classic automobiles on view throughout the 2014 Notre Dame football season.  Manufactured within the American heartland — Detroit, South Bend, and Auburn, Indiana — these automobiles epitomize classic American car design as well as...

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ND Alumni: Sculptors and Professors

ND Alumni: Sculptors and Professors

August 3 through November, 30, 2014

O'Shaughnessy Gallery West and Sculpture Courtyard

This exhibition of the recent work of twenty-one graduates of the University’s art studio program is so large that it will be installed at two venues. The works installed at the Snite Museum of Art will be on view through November 30, and those at the South Bend Museum of...

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Rock-Paper . . . Lithographs from the Permanent Collection, Part I

Rock-Paper . . . Lithographs from the Permanent Collection, Part I

August 24 through November 23, 2014

Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery

Featuring works from the Snite Museum’s growing collection of prints, this exhibition introduces visitors to lithography, a printmaking medium invented in 1799.  Part I of this two-part exhibition highlights works from the 1800s and charts lithography’s technical development and popular applications in illustrated newspapers and promotional material for theatrical performances...

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Images of Shakespeare at Notre Dame

Images of Shakespeare at Notre Dame

July 15 through August 17, 2014

Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery

A small exhibition of both historic and contemporary images organized in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first full-production of a Shakespearean play on campus, the 15th anniversary of the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, and the statewide Shakespeare Across Indiana program.

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2014 Thesis Exhibition by BFA and MFA Candidates

2014 Thesis Exhibition by BFA and MFA Candidates

April 6–May 18, 2014

O’Shaughnessy & Mestrovic Galleries

This annual exhibition is comprised of the culminating projects of those students graduating with a BFA or MFA degree from the ND Department of Art, Art History & Design. The works in this exhibition usually demonstrate a broad awareness of contemporary art themes and techiques and are often provocative.  The artworks range from industrial and graphic design projects...

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The Artist’s View: Landscape Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum

The Artist’s View: Landscape Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum

January 12-March 16

O'Shaughnessy 2 & 3 Galleries

Spanning four centuries, this exhibition organized by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento celebrates the inspiration that nature has provided to European artists and the beauty of the drawings that resulted. Featuring sketches and finished compositions by artists as diverse as Herman van Swanevelt (Dutch, ca. 1600–1655) and Camille Corot...

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No Little Art: Dürer’s Apocalypse and Northern Renaissance Prints

No Little Art: Dürer’s Apocalypse and Northern Renaissance Prints

January 12–March 16, 2014

O’Shaughnessy West Gallery

To celebrate the recent acquisition of the German renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer’s seminal woodcut series The Apocalypse (1511), the Museum presents an exhibition featuring these 16 sheets illustrating the book of Revelations.  Additional prints by his contemporaries, including Lucas van Leyden, Urs Graf, and Michael Wolgemut, set the stage for Dürer’s remarkable...

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Ornament Doesn't Need Little Flowers: Anton Würth and Engraving in the 21st Century

Ornament Doesn't Need Little Flowers: Anton Würth and Engraving in the 21st Century

January 12-March 16, 2014

O'Shaughnessy West Gallery

Provoked by the seventeenth-century French virtuoso portrait engraver Robert Nanteuil, German printmaker and book artist Anton Würth (b. 1957) challenges conventional concepts of ornamentation in an attempt to lead  "the engraved line from being an exclusively subordinate part of representation to a self-referential independence." This exhibition brings together Würth's twenty-first-century...

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