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Highlights from the museum’s European paintings include Max Pechstein's Ballet Dancers, 1912; Women on the Beach, 1932 by Le Corbusier; and a delicate watercolor of a river barge by Paul Cézanne.
Important accompanying collections include a fine grouping of Russian Icons from the Novgorod and Moscow schools, dating from the 15th through 18th century.
Also on View in the European Gallery:
From Idealism to Individualism: Artists of Europe Creating a View of the World
Even within the recently formed European Union, each distinct European country continues to pursue its unique traditions defined by language, religious and family customs, geographic place, and its own history of the visual arts. This exhibition features a group of prints, drawings, and paintings from the sixteenth to twentieth-century, primarily from the museum’s collection, that explores some of the artistic traditions of Europe.
Now on View in the McKenzie Icon Gallery:
Holy Icons of Russia
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As Christianity spread through Europe and the Western world, the Orthodox Church used icons as essential objects of Christian worship. Not unlike the Renaissance paintings of Virgin and Child in subject matter and iconography, the icons of Greece and Russia were directly linked to the saints and holy figures they depicted as transmitters of prayers to the heavenly realm. This exhibition draws from the rich collection of Russian icons originally collected by Gertrude Bass Warner, who donated the museum’s original collection to the University of Oregon in 1921.