In honor of the Hood Museum of Art's twentieth anniversary, the museum is proud to present a major new exhibition, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art. On view from March 29 to May 29, 2005, this traveling exhibition highlights a stunning diversity of works dating from 1769 to 1969, many of which have never before been on view. Nearly 120 works feature the talents of such distinguished artists as John Singleton Copley, John James Audubon, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Joseph Stella, Jackson Pollock, Eva Hesse, and Romare Bearden. Taken as a whole, these drawings and watercolors reveal the rich variety of approaches, media, and subjects that have attracted American artists over the course of two centuries. Highlights range from Copley's magnificent 1769 pastel portrait of New Hampshire's last royal governor, John Wentworth, to early-nineteenth-century folk portraits and landscapes, lyrical nineteenth-century watercolor marines and interiors, dynamic images of New York City in the jazz age, and purely abstract compositions by pioneering artists associated with abstract expressionism and minimalism.
Marks of Distinction is the result of a multiyear research project and a concerted effort to strengthen the museum's impressive holdings of American drawings and watercolors through gifts and purchases. The exhibition will be accompanied by a 282-page illustrated catalogue copublished with Hudson Hills Press. The publication provides an overview of the American collection by renowned art historian and former Dartmouth professor John Wilmerding; a history of the collection's development by Barbara MacAdam; in-depth scholarly entries on eighty of the museum's most noteworthy American drawings and watercolors by MacAdam, Mark Mitchell, Derrick Cartwright, Katherine Hart, and Barbara Thompson; as well as illustrations of about 170 additional collection highlights.
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