{"id":7405,"date":"2017-08-18T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartdoctors.com\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:15:53","slug":"nashville-arts-magazine-features-articles-on-current-exhibits-in-vanderbilt-fine-arts-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2017\/08\/nashville-arts-magazine-features-articles-on-current-exhibits-in-vanderbilt-fine-arts-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Arts Magazine Features Articles on Current Exhibits in Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hartdoctors.com\/2017\/08\/18\/nashville-arts-magazine-features-articles-on-current-exhibits-in-vanderbilt-fine-arts-gallery\/studentscuratingdavidsonshow\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7408\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7408\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2017\/08\/studentscuratingdavidsonshow.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"601\" \/><\/a>*Kevin Murphy&#8217;s students in the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, immersed in the initial stages of curating the current exhibition, <em>American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson<\/em>, which closes September 17<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Part of the prestige of any museum or gallery is the ability to bring to the public the artistic contributions of cultures or the long-forgotten works of pioneers in an artistic genre.\u00a0 It is likewise prestigious and rare for art students to curate such exhibits. For the fourth year, art history students of Kevin D. Murphy, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Chair of Vanderbilt\u2019s History of Art Department, have been given curatorial responsibility for an exhibition.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nashvillearts.com\/2017\/08\/art-smart-vanderbilt-fine-arts-gallery-rediscovery-morris-davidson\/\">Read more<\/a> in DeeGee Lester&#8217;s article, Nashville Arts Magazine&#8217;s<em> Art Smart:\u00a0 Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery &#8211; The Rediscovery of Morris Davidson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hartdoctors.com\/2017\/06\/20\/traveling-europe-through-art-with-the-fine-arts-gallerys-summer-exhibition\/johntaylorarms\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7182\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7182\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2017\/06\/johntaylorarms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>&#8220;For generations, the allure of Europe has stood as a cathedral to culture, and the Grand Tour, its pilgrimage.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>As an educational travel tour of Europe, undertaken by young nobles often accompanied by an artist, the Grand Tour served to develop tastes and refine young minds through the temper of history.\u00a0 <em>American Artists and the Legacy of the Grand Tour,\u00a0 1880\u20131960<\/em>\u00a0pays respect to these traditions, following the footsteps of American artists as they pursued the precedents of artists past, creating bodies of work that praised this legacy.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nashvillearts.com\/2017\/06\/rendered-praise-american-artists-legacy-grand-tour-1880-1960\/\">Read more<\/a> in Megan Kelley&#8217;s article, Nashville Arts Magazine&#8217;s <em>Rendered in Praise:\u00a0 American Artists and the Legacy of the Grand Tour, 1880-1960<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>*John Taylor Arms (American, 1887-1953),\u00a0<em>La Mangia, Siena<\/em>, etching on woven paper, 1927. Gift of Thomas B. Brumbaugh, professor of fine arts, emeritus, Vanderbilt University.\u00a0 On view in the exhibition, <em>Rendered in Praise:\u00a0 American Artists and the Legacy of the Grand Tour<\/em>, closing August 26<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Kevin Murphy&#8217;s students in the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, immersed in the initial stages of curating the current exhibition, American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson, which closes September 17 &#8220;Part of the prestige of any museum or gallery is the ability to bring to the public the artistic contributions of cultures or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7000,"featured_media":7408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-arts-gallery","category-hart","category-studentalumni","category-vrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}