Princeton art museum offers best for anniversary show

• Published in: Newhouse News Service p. 1
• Main Author: Purcell, Janet
• Format: Newsletter
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Newhouse News Service 22.02.2008

Moving to more modern times, there's Auguste Rodin's marble sculpture "Danaid," depicting a Greek mythology figure fallen from exhaustion; Henry Moore's bronze "Maquette for Oval with Points"; Eduard Manet's "Gypsy with a Cigarette"; Claude Monet's "Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge"; and Wassily Kandinsky's "Promenade (Sketch)," along with many others. Among the works representing American art are William Merritt Chase's "Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island"; Charles Willson Peale's "George Washington at the Battle of Princeton"; Winslow Homer's "At the Window"; Childe Hassam's "Rainy Day, Fifth Avenue"; and John Singer Sargent's monumental portrait of Elizabeth Allen Marquand. Five gelatin silver prints from the Alfred Stieglitz "Equivalent" series were pulled from the photography collection to be displayed, along with photographs by British, Dutch, French, German and other American photographers. Most notable is Henry Peach Robinson's "When the Day's Work is Done," a well-known and highly regarded albumen print that the handbook says "brings five negatives into play, each contributing an allegorical or narrative note." In clearly focused detail, it shows an elderly couple, the woman sewing by the window the man reading the Bible at a table.