Past Exhibitions
Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art
American Art at Dartmouth
American art has long been a mainstay of Dartmouth College's collections, beginning with a gift in 1773 of a Boston-made silver bowl from Royal Governor John Wentworth to Dartmouth's founder, Eleazar Wheelock, in honor of the College's first commencement. The largest selection of the American collections ever presented at the Hood, this exhibition showcases over 150 paintings, sculptures, pieces of silver, and other decorative arts to 1950. Artists represented include Paul Revere, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Doughty, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Frederic Remington, Willard Metcalf, Maria Oakey Dewing, John Sloan, Augusta Savage, Paul Sample, Maxfield Parrish, and Georgia O'Keeffe. An illustrated catalogue copublished with the University Press of New England accompanies the exhibition.
Relationships among the Artist, Sitter, Patron, and Viewer
Revealing Identity in Portraiture
Selected European Masterpieces of the Currier Museum of Art
During the renovation and expansion of the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, ten Old Master and early modern paintings and sculptures will be exhibited at the Hood. The European collection from the state's largest museum has long been admired by scholars and art lovers alike. The objects on display range from Renaissance paintings to a rare modernist sculpture and include works by Jacob van Ruisdael, John Constable, and Pablo Picasso.
The Hood Museum of Art and Dartmouth College Library present a two-part installation and exhibition by avant-garde Chinese artist Wenda Gu. Part of his ongoing global united nations hair monuments project, the green house and united colors comprise a massive sculpture created from hair collected in 2006 from thousands of Dartmouth College students, faculty, and staff and Upper Connecticut River Valley community members. Wenda Gu's hair sculptures grow from his dream that through his art he might unite humanity and encourage international understanding. An exhibition of the artist's recent works on paper is presented concurrently in the Hood's galleries.