The Kimbell Art Museum is organizing an exhibition of major paintings and sculptures bought by Texans for their private collections between 1900 and the present. The artworks will be on view from November 22, 2009 to March 21, 2010.
The exhibition will focus exclusively on the art of Europe and the ancient Mediterranean from about 700 B.C. to the 1950s, with approximately 90 works. Featured artists will include Rembrandt, Guido Reni, Angelica Kauffman, Monet, Caillebotte, Cezanne, Picasso, Magritte, and Max Ernst.
Since the first decade of the 20th century, when wealth in Texas began to reach a national scale, private individuals have collected works from the art of the American West to contemporary academic painting from America and Europe. By the time of the oil boom in the 1920s, a pattern of discerning collecting was established that emphasized European art from antiquity to the modern masters.
The men and women who purchased these works hailed from all parts of the state, though most were from the five major cities.
The picture shows Paul Cezanne, Trees and Rocks, Near the Chateau Noir, oil on canvas, c. 1900–1906. The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; Museum purchase for Cornelia Ritchie and Ritchie Trust No. 4, 1996. Formerly in the collection of Montgomery ("Montie") Ritchie, Canyon, Texas. -- www.kimbellart.org
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