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Discovering Creativity: American Art Masters
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2023

Figurative Masters of the Americas
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First Circle: Circles in Art
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Florals for Spring, Groundbreaking
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Andy Warhol: All is Pretty
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Art of the American West: A Prominent Collection
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Picasso: Beyond the Canvas
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No Other Land: A Century of American Landscapes
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Ansel Adams: Affirmation of Life
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2022

Abstract Expressionism: Transcending the Radical
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Georgia O’Keeffe and Marsden Hartley: Modern Minds
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My Own Skin: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
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Your Heart’s Blood: Intersections of Art and Literature
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N.C. Wyeth: A Decade of Painting
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Meeting Life: N.C. Wyeth and the MetLife Murals
July 18, 2022 - December 31, 2024
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Alexander Calder: Painting the Cosmos
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Josef Albers: The Heart of Painting
May 12 - November 30, 2022
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Paper Cut: Unique Works on Paper
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More to Life: Impressionist Dialogues from Monet and Beyond
August 17, 2022 - August 31, 2023
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Alexander Calder: A Universe of Painting
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Claude Monet: An Impressionist Genius
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Marc Chagall: The Color of Love
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Picasso - Prints and Works on Paper
September 1 - October 12, 2022
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2021

It Was Acceptable in the 80s
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James Rosenquist: Potent Pop
June 7, 2021 - January 31, 2023
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Andy Warhol Polaroids: Wicked Wonders
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Mercedes Matter: A Miraculous Quality
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A Beautiful Time: American Art in the Gilded Age
June 24, 2021 - August 31, 2023
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All We Have Seen: Impressionist Landscapes from Monet to Kleitsch
August 9, 2021 - September 30, 2022
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2020

Jewels of Impressionism and Modern Art
February 19 - October 31, 2020
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The Gloria Luria Collection
March 16, 2020 - October 31, 2021
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March 19, 2020 - February 28, 2023
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Jewish Modernism Part 2: Figuration from Chagall to Norman
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Andy Warhol Polaroids: All That Glitters
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Andy Warhol Polaroids: Me, Myself, & I
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Jewish Modernism Part 1: Abstraction from Gottlieb to Schnabel
April 23, 2020 - April 30, 2024
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March 25, 2020 - March 2, 2022
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2019

Paul Jenkins: Coloring the Phenomenal
December 27, 2019 - March 31, 2023
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The Californians
November 1, 2019 - February 14, 2020
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Irving Norman: Dark Matter
November 27, 2019 - June 30, 2024
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We Were Always Here: Japanese-American Post-War Pioneers of Art
April 4 - July 15, 2019
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2018

N.C. Wyeth: Paintings and Illustrations
February 1 - May 31, 2018
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The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill
March 21 - May 30, 2018
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The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill
June 1 - July 27, 2018
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The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill
August 1 - September 16, 2018
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de Kooning x de Kooning
November 8, 2018 - February 28, 2019
New York, NY
Sam Francis: From Dusk to Dawn
November 15, 2018 - April 29, 2019
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Wojciech Fangor: The Early 1960s
April 19 - June 30, 2018
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2016

Ferrari and Futurists: An Italian Look at Speed
November 21, 2016 - January 30, 2017
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Norman Rockwell: The Artist at Work
June 30 - September 30, 2016
Jackson Hole, WY

2015

Alexander Calder
November 21, 2015 - May 28, 2016
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2014

Masters of California Impressionism
November 22, 2014 - May 23, 2015
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2011

Painterly Abstraction: Spheres of AbEx
November 25, 2011 - May 31, 2012
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2010

Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art
November 20, 2010 - September 25, 2011
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2009

Picasso
November 20, 2009 - May 25, 2010
Palm Desert, CA

History

Born in Naarden where his father, Jacob Jansz de Goyer was a moderately wealthy cabinetmaker, Salomon van Ruysdael initially used the name ‘de Goyer’ but soon followed the example of his eldest brother and adopted ‘Ruysdael’ from the castle of Ruijschdaal in Gooiland, which may once have been a family possession. Shortly after his father’s death, Salomon and his brother, Isaack van Ruysdael (1599-1677), a painter, frame maker, and dealer, moved to Haarlem, where Salomon entered the Guild of St Luke in 1623 and largely painted scenes of the surrounding countryside.

By 1640, Salomon distanced himself from the tonal aesthetic that had largely dominated landscape pictures of the previous decade. Instead, he adopted a more varied and brighter palette that can be seen as part of a wider movement in landscape painting whereupon the impulse to paint the more mundane features of the Dutch environment in a relatively uncomplicated manner was supplanted by a desire to imbue the landscape with a new sense of grandeur and refinement. Salomon did not, for example, intend cloud structures to be simply beautiful features or atmospheric elements that augment the ‘feeling’ of the picture. Instead, he looked to the energy and drama of the sky to suggest familiar poetic or scriptural metaphors vis a vis any number of weather anomalies — natural world reminders of God’s creative power, his benevolence, and his goodness visible from the top of the dunes, from the lands reclaimed from the sea, and from the sea conquered with their mighty ships.

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Top Results at Auction

“An Extensive River Landscape” (1644), 24 ½ x 35 3/4 in. Sold at Sotheby’s London: 03 December 1997 for $3,892,724 USD
“An Extensive River Landscape” (1644), 24 ½ x 35 3/4 in. Sold at Sotheby’s London: 03 December 1997 for $3,892,724 USD
“A River View with the Town of Weesp” (1650), 18 ½ x 25 in. Sold at Sotheby’s New York: 28 January 2010 for $3,330,500 USD
“A River View with the Town of Weesp” (1650), 18 ½ x 25 in. Sold at Sotheby’s New York: 28 January 2010 for $3,330,500 USD
“Wijdschip and Other Small Dutch Vessels at the Mouth of an Estuary”, 14 ½ x 12 3/4 in. Sold at Sotheby’s New York: 29 January 2015 for $3,077,000 USD
“Wijdschip and Other Small Dutch Vessels at the Mouth of an Estuary”, 14 ½ x 12 3/4 in. Sold at Sotheby’s New York: 29 January 2015 for $3,077,000 USD

Paintings in Museum Collections

Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

“Road in the Dunes with a Passenger Coach” (1631), oil on panel, 22 x 34 in.,

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

“Market by the Seashore” (1637), oil on wood, 16 x 23 in.

Kunsthalle, Hamburg

“River Scene” (1632), oil on canvas, 13 1/2 x 20 in.

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Additional Resources

See the collection of paintings, drawings, and prints by Salomon van Ruysdael at Harvard Art Museums
Explore the Dutch Golden Age with Jonathan Ribner (Dept. of History of Art and Architecture, Boston University), hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Browse an array of stunning landscapes by van Ruysdael in the collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid

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