Our March Display

 

The current display posted at the main library's 2nd floor celebrates of Women History Month.

 

Called "Floral Paintings by Academically trained Women Artists," the display focuses on19th and early 20th centuries women artists and is inspired by the unique mission of the Dahesh Museum of Art as posted on the web site.

The Dahesh Museum of Art first opened to the public in 1995 with a unique mission — to provide the public with a fresh look at European academic art of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and to assess the impact of the academic tradition — training, style, subject matter, and ideals—on the world of art. This tradition had until then been relegated to the margins of art history, and consequently, the public had almost no access to museum exhibitions that explored the achievements of these artists and their legacies.

The Dahesh serves a diverse audience by placing the academically trained artists in the broader context of 19th-century visual culture, and by offering a fresh appraisal of the role academies played in reinvigorating the classical ideals of beauty, humanism, and skill.